Windows grabs your serial number from the hardware so it's fully legit. If you're feeling feisty, you can make a Windows 10 installer USB stick and blow away the existing installation. Newer OS X versions assume you're on SSD, and seven years is getting long in the tooth for a mechanical disk. Unless you're running on only 4GB of RAM or something, your hard disk is almost certainly the culprit. This requires another computer, obviously. I've done it myself, it works fine even if you have disk encryption enabled. It's really "just" a matter of getting an SSD the same size as your disk (500GB probably), plugging them both into the same system, and using dd to block copy one to the other. The somewhat tricky part would be reinstalling OS X (tricky, and generally unnecessary) or cloning your existing hard disk (probably you can just pay someone to do this, or find a friend who has the necessary equipment/knowledge). There's nothing tricky involved, it's all right there under the bottom plate. If you're at all handy with a screwdriver it's entirely plausible to upgrade the RAM and/or replace the hard drive with an SSD (then use Disk Sensei to enable TRIM support, because Apple). Posted by I EAT TAPAS at 1:47 PM on Jīest answer: You have a 2012-era (non-Retina) Macbook Pro? It should still be plenty useable. I ended up buying one used with very little use. Right now, the only way to buy a laptop where both the keyboard and trackpad won't drive you completely insane after a couple of years is to buy a pre-2016 Apple MacBook Pro. They have perfectly fine keyboards, but the trackpads will eventually drive you crazy. All of them, even Surface laptops or Dell laptops. Sorry, Apple, it's true.Īt the same time, all of the post-2015 Windows laptops have awful trackpads. I wouldn't buy one again until the fundamental architecture of the keyboard changed. This isn't about personal keyboard comfort, this is just about the reliability of the post-2015 Mac keyboards. My feeling after all this time is that a post-2015 Apple-manufactured laptop will have keyboard issues. Mac thing - I don't care, and I have a HEDT (high-end desktop) that runs Windows that's fine - it's a quality of laptop thing. I personally have trialed and rejected a number of PC laptops after my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro died. posted by exceptinsects to Computers & Internet (13 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite Operating system? Windows/Chrome/Ubuntu? I don't care about getting under the hood, I just want it to work. My big worry about switching to a PC is malware-how worried should I be? How do I avoid a bunch of unwanted software? I don't do any gaming or video editing or music editing. ripping CDs into itunes to put on my phone, but I'm thinking maybe it's time to get over myself and just sign up for a streaming service word processing (nowadays this mostly happens thru Google Drive anyway) watching YouTube/Netflix and occasionally a DVD from the library I get a small discount for HP or Dell but it's probably not enough to make a big difference if another brand is a lot better I would prefer something in like, a tasteful silver if possible, rather than clunky black plastic or with, like, flames on the side My house is tiny and I don't have space for a TV or desktop, so I'd like a large (maybe 17"? is that too large?) screen. I almost never take it anywhere, so it doesn't have to be light. I'm imagining something in the $750 range but I really have no idea.I'm hoping to keep the same one for a long time, so I can afford to spend more, but also if there's a $500 one that does what I need, that's fine.
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