My MacBook Pro is 4 years old, but it still works well. The battery is starting to degrade a bit, but overall it's acceptable. Still, I'm not sure I'll consider it reliable enough for much longer.
I was thinking that with my next laptop I'll do like Amélie: I’ll take a photo of it in every place I bring it, and I'll create a dedicated Fediverse account just for that purpose.
When I come up with ideas like this, I feel like the Nerd Barista…
@stefano I have a 2021 MacBook Pro (16", 64 GB) - I am not the original user. It is what I use most of the time. It's at about 89% capacity. It was the best laptop I ever owned.
Until I got a 2025 MacBook Air 13" M4 16GB
Why is it better? Only because it's lighter. Most of the time, I'm on the big screen on my desk. When I'm not, I'm used to working on a small screen. I have a 10-year old MacBook Air which is my other workhorse.
I see myself keeping all these until they die and can't be reasonably repaired.
In one of my previous employees I got MacBook Air M1 ... besides retarded keyboard layout and an OS (macOS) that really forced me to do things the 'Apple Way(TM)' I really liked that it was light and had HUGE amount of battery time - like 8-10h of real work.
Apps like:
Helped but still.
I forced it to always work on the 'energy efficient cores' - I never felt that it was 'slow'.
From the other things ... the LATENCY on any external mouse is HUGE ... its not visible/experienced on keyboards ... but on mouse ... HUGE disappointment - especially on such a 'desktop' OS.
On FreeBSD all my mouse work instantly - like zero latency (or as small as I can imagine - not noticeable). On macOS ... literally PITA to use external mouse instead of builtin touchpad ... and I start to believe that it is intended :(
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