Hi everyone
I'm a little bit confused/annoyed.
I bought my 15" Macbook pro (2.6 GHz I7 4 core, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) late
in 2012.
Since my 3 year Applecare is running out, and the machine is slowing
down, I'm looking at 'upgrading' to a new laptop.
I went in to Macworx today to see what was available. The top end
machine available was a 15" 3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, 16Gb RAM and
512GB 'storage'.
Most of the tech specs seem hardly changed - what happened to Moore's
Law? The price doesn't seem to have changed much either - if anything it
has gone up. What is even more disturbing is that the storage has
decreased from 1Tb to 512Gb - in the top-end machine! Are they serious???
My current system uses 650Gb - 350 Gb in photos. I can't upgrade without
splitting up photo libraries or deleting old photos. This is 1990s
thinking, and the Apple hardware is forcing me backwards. In almost 30
years of Mac use, I can't recall storage capacity going down.
What are my options for a portable machine which exceeds to capability
of my current machine? A few years ago I heard that it is possible to
install OSX on non Mac hardware. Is this still an option?
Hoping for some creative solutions...
Rob
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Adjunct Associate Professor Rob Phillips
School of Education, Murdoch University, Perth, Western AUSTRALIA
[email protected] Phone: +61 (0)416 065 054
Life member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary
Education
Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
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