What laptop should I buy?

[Zaphod]

Quote:If you want durable AND beautiful you need a MacBook Pro. I am a big fan of 17inch notebooks, because with one of them I don't need a desktop computer at home and they still fit in the rucksack I take along for work.

My MacBook Pro 13inch has been used daily since I bought it new in 2010.

Admittedly the battery isn’t 100% now, but hey.

I did replace the mains adaptor about a year ago.... only because my cat had took to chewing the end near the computer ... I got a new MagSafe cable afterwards for about £4 , not fitted it yet though. I didn’t realise you could get the cable on its own.

I upgraded the harddrive to a larger 7200 version almost as soon as I got it , but that’s just my personal preference in getting top speed out of this usual bottleneck.
I tried dual booting/bootcamping it with windows for a while, but I’ve gone back to the latest single boot Mac OS.
I did buy a new keyboard also for it , only because I might need it some day - that day hasn’t arrived yet, although some keys are looking very shiny now

I guess I could upgrade to SSD now as prices have come down in eight years.

But the rest of it has been excellent.