Oof. What's happened to upgradable laptops? Trying to look for a work laptop for a new employee (I'm a junior IT Admin), and can't find any good ones for around $800 that can actually be opened up and have stuff replaced. At least to open up a MacBook Pro, even the newer retina unibody ones, there's no need to rip rubber feet off or break stuff to get them open....
tfw my 2012 MacBook Pro is more upgradable than a windows laptop (which I thought was the whole point of them existing, to be upgradable?)
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That's one thing I don't get... the constant drive to go thinner and lighter. I mean, it's understandable in a tablet, but my 2012 MacBook Pro is perfectly fine, and even the 15" and 17" ones are fine to use, just a bit hefty. But are we seriously such wusses we can't carry a heavier laptop? (also, them fitting into stuff more easily is BS, if you have room for a 13" ultrabook, you can fit a 1" thick laptop in easily instead). If I were designing them, I'd stop at the thickness of the OG Retina MacBook Pros, and just improve cooling and such. I find it's usually the stupid "tech review sites" who always push for thinner, lighter, fancier crap, and then people seem to just go along with it.
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idk, I really like my Matebook X, which I specifically purchased because of its light weight and small footprint.
imo, it depends on the type of laptop you want in the first place; mine is perfect for schoolwork, which is all I do on it, but if I was doing anything more intensive, I'd definitely carry around something a bit thiccer.
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