Originally Posted by caprice_2nv
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by caprice_2nv
These days windows machines are pretty good as well. Old Thinkpads last forever and can easily be upgraded. Some of the MacBooks had fatal hardware flaws that are difficult or impossible to repair according to some YouTube channels.
2010 Lenovo that cost me $699 Canadian new (like $500 us) still working, but slowing down a bit since it was lower end specs. 2012-2013 high end Thinkpad seems as fast as anything in daily tasks. I also have a 2012ish desktop and a 2013 Samsung laptop my gf uses which are both running well.
The technology doesn't change like it used to. I remember PC's slowing down within a couple of years, blue screen of death etc. Not anymore luckily.
Pretty sure you are talking about the MBP's with NVidia chipsets. This plagued PC's as well; certainly wasn't isolated to Apple products. Most of those PC's got junked, whilst, given the cost of the Apple units, people were swapping boards, trying to fix them...etc. So the issue became much more broadly known.
And yes, it's quite impressive how hardware that's seemingly long in the tooth will satisfactorily run Windows 10.
I wasn't aware of the Nvidia problem. My Thinkpad from 2014 has an Nvidia video card too. No issues so far. It was used for CAD every day at work for a number of years until someone upgraded.
I was thinking of motherboard issues and screen issues talked about on Louis Rossman's YouTube channel. He definitely is biased against apple though since they are trying to kill off people's ability to get their stuff fixed.
The NVidia chipsets (not video cards) were the motherboard issues. I've never experienced screen issues, but I have a bit of experience doing board swaps and the like on the NVidia chipset MBP's.
Originally Posted by OVERKILL
Originally Posted by caprice_2nv
These days windows machines are pretty good as well. Old Thinkpads last forever and can easily be upgraded. Some of the MacBooks had fatal hardware flaws that are difficult or impossible to repair according to some YouTube channels.
2010 Lenovo that cost me $699 Canadian new (like $500 us) still working, but slowing down a bit since it was lower end specs. 2012-2013 high end Thinkpad seems as fast as anything in daily tasks. I also have a 2012ish desktop and a 2013 Samsung laptop my gf uses which are both running well.
The technology doesn't change like it used to. I remember PC's slowing down within a couple of years, blue screen of death etc. Not anymore luckily.
Pretty sure you are talking about the MBP's with NVidia chipsets. This plagued PC's as well; certainly wasn't isolated to Apple products. Most of those PC's got junked, whilst, given the cost of the Apple units, people were swapping boards, trying to fix them...etc. So the issue became much more broadly known.
And yes, it's quite impressive how hardware that's seemingly long in the tooth will satisfactorily run Windows 10.
I wasn't aware of the Nvidia problem. My Thinkpad from 2014 has an Nvidia video card too. No issues so far. It was used for CAD every day at work for a number of years until someone upgraded.
I was thinking of motherboard issues and screen issues talked about on Louis Rossman's YouTube channel. He definitely is biased against apple though since they are trying to kill off people's ability to get their stuff fixed.
The NVidia chipsets (not video cards) were the motherboard issues. I've never experienced screen issues, but I have a bit of experience doing board swaps and the like on the NVidia chipset MBP's.