>Core2Duo Macbooks are more expensive than 2nd gen i5 used

dude apple lmao

>>57934461
apple cucks think their shitold macbooks don't lose value
that's partially true
they don't lose value because there's this myth that they don't lose value so they just resell with high value

in fact they are old shit and slow compared to a new device
but applefags don't listen

>new laptops cost the same as they did 5 years ago with the same specs
STOP

the macbook has a cpu where you can actually disable the IME and install libreboot

>>57934786
interdasting....

i might buy one for linux instead of getting another thinkpad.

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>>57934461
>Explain this.

>>57934740

Those MacBooks perform better. Its like putting an SSD in an old machine, that is the difference between a cuo2duo MacBook and a TwinkPad.

The older MacBooks under anything before Lion ran the best. Snow Leopard is probably the best operating system ever.

>>57934856
>not just getting a C2D thinkpad

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>>57934756
>People are selling their used laptops and computers for only about £100 less than they bought them for years ago

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>>57934900
>t. mactoddler

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>>57934756
ayylmao

>>57934964
>that fucking star wars wallpaper

Why does that make this image so much funnier?

Supply and demand. People want Macs, even used ones, but nobody actually wants to buy your shitty ThinkMemes.

>>57934964
This image is over a year or two old. The memebook still costs that much for Core 2 Duo, and $300 gets you much more for a real laptop.

TL;DR, mactoddlers are brainless gullible retards, and are soon parted from their money, and they'll even brag about Apple's profit margin a.k.a. how hard they got ripped off.

>>57934461
Thinkpads are bought in large volumes to corporations, and when they are retired they're sold for bottom dollar on the second hand market.

>Friend and I went to the gym after class
>Put our stuff into a locker together since he brought a lock with him
>He forgot to fully close the padlock
>Come back 1.5 hours later
>His 8 year old Macbook was stolen but my 6 month old XPS 13 was just sitting on the bottom of the locker but not stolen

just
>save up for a macbook pro
>buy a used thinkpad for yourself with part of the money
>put the rest in apple stock and let people keep consuming

>buy a used macbook
>put it into storage
>wait 10+ years
>sell at a profit to macfags

Tell me why I shouldn't do this.

>>57934461
All MacBook prices are fucked.
6 years old with dents, 650
http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/2010-Macbook-Pro---Great-Christmas-Present_28606067.lite

Card reader is broken, no idea what shape it's in, tiny hard drive, 500
classified-ad/13-inch-Early-2011-Macbook-Pro---Dual-Core-i5-23-GHz-processor_28601379

This one is gold. C2d, old as hell, thinks it being clean means it's worth more
classified-ad/A1278-13-inch-Macbook-for-sale-Apple-XPOST_28239465

Basically people who were suckered into thinking it was worth what they paid know nothing about computers so they think it's worth a lot to sell. They're morons.

Also, guarantee all these batteries are shot.

>>57934740
it is basically this, there is nothing else to it

here is another example: i sometimes lurk the watch thread when i am bored. i don't have a genuine interest in watches or anything but i look up some of the ones that the anons there wear. for some reason, rolexs and omega watches go for several hundred dollars, even if they are scratched up and rusted from several decades ago. why?

>HURR, its a ROLEX man!

so in the same way, you have
>WOW, this is my MACBOOK man!

they actually believe these things still have value, because apple's marketing was clever. you're buying into a cult of personality, not an actual functional item

>>57934461
it's a fashion symbol, it still has the apple logo on it

normies won't be able to tell if it's a year old or several years old macbook, especially from a distance

>>57934964

>an eBay listing for price

You'll never get it will you, Rakesh? That Dell will always be less snappy than the MacBook even with an SSD. Windows is absolute bloatware. I'm not even sure you understand English so there's no point in confusing you with all these complicated words. You only speak in 1-liners anyway like a real Indian on the internet.

>>57935927
>t. mactoddler

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>>57935927
>macfag calling any other OS bloated
lmao

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>>57935938

Thank you for always proving me correct. I like you Pajeet.

>>57935970
>t. mactoddler

>>57935967

Apple makes the drivers for Windows you clueless fuck. What did you think this was?

>>57935877
Don't own a rolex or anything but am a watch fag and do collect. I agree with the memebook stuff but for rolex watches or any good watch in general, the reason it holds value is because it is still a really nice watch. It looks nice, it has good movement inside, it is reliable and will last you potentially your whole life. It's also a good fallback, you can sell it for a lot anytime; they don't depreciate heavily. Whereas computers get slow and old over time, a watch isn't going to tick any slower, and maintenance can always clean/fix it but with an old laptop, there's only so much you can do before new shit that's better overtakes it.

>>57935992
>What did you think this was?

Clearly, Apple proving that OSX is more a bloated piece of shit than Windows even with their half-assed boot camp drivers.

>>57934900
The hardware is crap and the OS is horribly inefficient. Look up Phoronix's Linux v OSX benchmarks. OSX gets curbstomped. Slow OS that can't take full advantage of the slow hardware somehow adds up to performing better? Please tell me this isn't what mactoddlers actually believe.

>>57935992
They don't care about fixing bugs

>>57934856
>buying t420 to install hackintosh on it
>yeah, i'm heretic

>>57936058

>a barebones shit OS with no support for anything is faster than something full of features and more stability

I sure am surprised. I'm off to install Linus From Scratch on all my devices now.

>>57936162
>t. mactoddler that doesn't do anything on his fruity toddler toy besides update facebook

>>57934461
Currently using a i5 dual core MacBook with 4GB ram and 128gb SSD.

Puts any laptop ive used to shame so far for regular daily tasks. I would have never thought something with such weak low specs could perform anywhere near this good.

As much as i hate apple and their business model, I am thoroughly impressed with what I would have previously called a shitbox.

>>57936193
>Puts any laptop ive used to shame so far
>t. mactoddler poorfag that's never owned laptop more than $300

>>57936193
>i've never owned a laptop with an i5, 4gb ram and SSD before

>>57936241
My last laptop was a Lenovo p50 with an i7, 16gb RAM and a 512gb PCIe SSD, fagtron.

I got this MacBook free as a gift after selling my desktop and laptop last year.

>>57936256
Read above pls

>>57936162
>No support for anything
The only reason your cuck OS has the illusion of support is because they strictly regulate the hardware it runs on. Put OS X on anything else or try to plug anything into it and we'll see which OS has better support.

>>57936268
>i'm full of shit

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>>57936277
Fag. Corporate discount, too.

>>57936310
>mactoddler
>calling someone else a fag
lmao

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>>57934461
Technology illiterates who don't understand technology, only brands.

>>57936349
>I won

That's okay though. I had a hard time accepting the gift literally yesterday. First apple product ever. Didn't pay for it. I was much more impressed than I had planned to me. The trackpad or at least the built in gestures are fluid, snappy and easy to learn across most apps.

Apart from the shit tier screen I really don't have many issues with this product. The company still doesn't earn an ounce of respect for the bloated price or locked ecosystem though.

But as a professional I can't just outright deny or claim otherwise that it isn't a well designed product. I'll give more opinions after a month or so of bogging it down and it not being a brand new system.

But even on day 1 of my p50, it still wasn't as fast or responsive to load applications. Games, sure. Chrome and Firefox and word and even calculator arent instantaneous like this.

>>57936424
How much are you getting paid Rajeesh?

>>57936424
>Chrome and Firefox and word and even calculator arent instantaneous like this.
>PCIe SSD

Oh, you're one of those normaltard technology illiterates that uses stock OEM installs. It's ok, you wandered onto the wrong board, let me help you find your way back to >>>/r/eddit.

>>57936276

>Why does an operating system designed to run on a select set of custom hardware run shit when literally hacked to run on everything else LEL mak is so shit xD

Winjeets can't be THIS dumb.

>>57936471

>I rice desktops with pretty pictures and cartoon girls on 2l33t4u minimalist themes but I don't actually know anything about technology or software: The Post

>>57936500
But OSX performs light years better on standard PC hardware when it's compatible. Apple hardware is literal trash, then again, their software is too.

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>>57936528
>mactoddler doesn't even know how to clean install an OS
>thinks he knows anything about technology

>>57936552

>OS X performs better on higher end hardware

I would have not guessed that. You're teaching me new things all the time! I must subscribe to your channel so I don't miss any other updates.

Yeah no fucking shit a 4-way Titan X paired with 64GB of DDR4 3200Mhz RAM and a 6950X bench OS X higher than a fucking MacBook Air you retarded little cunt. Are you stupid?

>>57936424
>even calculator arent instantaneous
>SSD

Whatever you say iPajeet!

>>57936500
>Implying I belong to a botnet. You should probably just leave /g/ at this point.

>>57936567

>the same 10-15 images posted every time

Can't you fit any other media on that 32MB HDD? How does Windows 3.1 handle 4chan by the way?

>>57936590
>Mac
retarded little cunt. Are you stupid?

>>57936617

That doesn't even relate to what I posted you fucking retarded shitskin.

>>57936441
Lemon
>>57936471
>>57936528
This basically. Loading my daily applications is suppose to be fast and fluid. Convolution isn't the goal here. I can command space type Fir or chro or safa and hit enter and im already into my browser. I can type pages off in an instant and I'm already opening previous documents or starting new ones.

Coming over the experience is similar to my last build on arch but with a nice touchpad on top of it.

Stay mad.
>>57936614
Stay mad. Windows was always bloated. That's why I use arch and now Mac.

>>57936672
>t. mactoddler

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>>57936672
>mactoddler pretends to understand technology
>complains about prebuilt bloatware
>wont reinstall it
>installs arch on a mac

Because Macbooks have an Apple logo on them and consumers are retarded

>>57936773
>No argument
Good thing you're anonymous or you'd be looking pretty stupid.

>>57936790
>IT professional for 10 years.
>Bloatware is an issue that plagues almost all operating systems.
>I didn't install arch

Currently using and enjoying macOS Yosemite as I wait for Sierra to download.

Cry harder, skids.

>>57936843
>IT professional
lol

>>57934461
I can't explain it

Even G3 powerbooks fetch ridiculous sums of money

>$100 for a laptop that can't even browse the internet

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>>57936843
>mactoddler thinks updating his facebook makes him an IT professional

is it just one autist calling everyone who disagrees with him mactoddlers?

>>57936875
>t. mactoddler

>>57936875
>t. mactoddler

>>57936875
t. mactoddler

>>57936875
>t. mactoddler

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>>57934964
I like how this screenshot crops out whether it's buy it now or bid.

Nice shitpost.

>>57936875
>t. mactoddler

>>57936937
>t. mactoddler >>57936402

>>57936875
>t. mactoddler

>>57936875
t. itoddler

>>57936885
>>57936896
>>57936916
>>57936919
>>57936941
>>57936956
>>57936968
>>57937028
MACTODDLERS BTFO

>>57936637
>winjeet
>Not related to botnet
GET OUT GET OUT GET OUT

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>>57937056
>t. mactoddler

>>57936866
>>57936874
>Browsing /g/ discredits paid professionals of over a decade

Neck yourself.

>>57937206
>IT """professional"""

>>57934461
Checking out prices of laptops at store, even i7's were going for $1,100 and they were overpriced.

Then you get to a MacBook with inferior specs in every single way and it's $1,399.

This shit is cringeworthy.

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>>57937214
You've never been paid salary let alone above 9$ an hour, have you?

>>57937242
Aside from not being optimized to game, though. They destroy the competition hands down.

I'm not saying buy it. Please don't. Apple doesn't deserve the money. But the products they develop are so closed off that they have the ability to engineer at a much higher level. The out of the box experience is much more refined.

Sure, your little 99 Honda civic can beat Lamborghinis on the DRAG STRIP with raw power. But it can't compete on the track without serious modification and work done by a top tier professional. And unless you dump the same amount of money into it, it'll never have all of the features and comfortability that a Lamborghini has. You'll never have the dashboard, the heated race seats, the sound quality(disregard old diablos sounding like shit). And most of all even if you did spend the money on all of that, you'll still never get the respect and stares and girls wanting to gobble your dick.

All you'll have in the back of your mind is
>T. Mactoddler
>My superior GTX 1080 32gb ram 6850k arch distribution is so much better because it performs better in video games and costs less money

Despite still not being free and open source, getting no respect from anybody no matter how hard you hype it up and think you're a genius for reading a few man pages. Just like the civic you built while living with your parents.

>>57937206
>mactoddler IT """"""""professional""""""""
>can't reinstall an OS

Neck yourself.

>>57937337
>But the products they develop are so closed off that they have the ability to engineer at a much higher level.
see >>57935967

Mactoddlers should be rounded up and gassed desu senpai.

>>57937337
I'm a sysadmin. The only people I hear call themselves IT """professionals""" are the help desk monkeys.

>>57935967
at least macos shuts itself off faster when their dads come when they are watching gay porn

>>57934900
I have an Intel iMac 17 inch with Core 2 Duo processor at 2ghz, should I prove to you how shit that runs under Snow Leopard? I loved that shit when it came out, but trying to that shit today is even WORSE than trying to use Windows XP today.

>>57937352
As stated before, we all know they're not good for gaming. That's not the point of a MacBook. Macs are designed to run macOS. It held its own against windows except for graphics benchmarks which is cool. Its not made to render games and graphics real time. Its made to crunch numbers and export media.

>>57937366
That's good for you and your help desk monkeys. I am an administrator at a local hospital as well as an instructor for freshmen AP programing courses. I've been a self made professional for almost a decade now. Snd just like yourself were all entitled to opinions.

Apple is an evil company who deserves nothing, but they do make excellent products. They're overpriced and you're paying a premium for premium, but that's the individuals choice. My first car was a Volkswagen GTI that cost me over 550$ just for brakes and rotors and my first big purchase was a 60,000 Audi.

You pay for what you like. I didn't buy the macbook air it was given to me. That's cool. I sold my computer's last December and have been living off my mobile and work notebook.

Now I have a comfy little shitbox that I was impressed with from the get go. No amount of anonymous users online are going to sway my opinion when they're unable to have regular conversations at the very least without considering their own blinding bias.

>>57937079
Wrong anon. You probably meant
>>57936500

>>57936617 is the guy saying OSX is garbage.

>Install expresscard in 15" macbook
>it just werks
>Install expresscard in Thinkpad
>doesn't work since it's not on the pci whitelist in the bios, since IBM/Lenovo thinks it's ok to limit what PCI devices you are allowed to use.

>Format HDD and clean install Windows on Macbook
>Is actually clean
>Format HDD and clean install Windows on Thinkpad
>Malware is installed through the bios by default, with no way to disable this without flashing third party firmware.

Thinkpads are one of the most locked down machines in the history of laptops...
I have no idea where this Thinkpad = Freedom meme came from other than Lenovo marketing, there is no reason for it to exist, since IBM machines have always been the most locked down PCs since their very introduction (Compaq's whole shtick was that they could sell you a more expandable, less restrictive clone PC for less money than IBM)

>>57934461
macbooks are more reliable and better build quality

>>57937466
>t. mactoddler

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>>57937506
>>Install expresscard in 15" macbook
>>it just werks
>>Install expresscard in Thinkpad
>>doesn't work since it's not on the pci whitelist in the bios, since IBM/Lenovo thinks it's ok to limit what PCI devices you are allowed to use.
backwards

>>Format HDD and clean install Windows on Macbook
>>Is actually clean
>>Format HDD and clean install Windows on Thinkpad
>>Malware is installed through the bios by default, with no way to disable this without flashing third party firmware.
backwards

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>>57937545
Almost made me mad for a second. But realistically here you're just a neck beard virgin clinging to "my way or the highway" your aggressive 5th teacher said once to the class and now you try to force everybody your superior computing ways disregarding the fact that it takes days to setup and even longer to use and learn fluently.

Neck it up, homie.

>>57934461
the moral of that story is: "Dont buy laptops from faggots"

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>>57937337
>comparing Mac to Lambo and PC to 99 Civic

Y-you can't be serious, can you?

>>57938067
>Denying an excellent analogy based on his preferences.

Apple, although recently having made some stupid decisions regarding the standardization of ports and connectors, has a goal to make all of their devices seemless. Each device is made to a much higher standard than PC components. It's software is made and developed for the strict hardware requirements that Macs follow. They operate as good if not better for most applications on significantly less hardware. While it might lack raw power in a straight line, lamborghoni can and will roast most cars around a track.

The simple fact of the matter is, the only cars that can compete with lamborghini are other strict, closed off cats like Ferrari, BMW, Bentley, etc. And custom built computers and store bought ibuypowers are nothing different than throwing shit together in an S14 chassis or a Z body, etc... And claiming to have a Lamborghini.

It's not the case.

>>57938162
It is not an excellent analogy by any means.

A better one would be Gucci (or any other "designer" handbag) vs a generic Guess. Debatable over which one looks better, both preform the same exact function, one is priced wayyy higher. Why? Because dumb broads see them as a status symbol. Literally marketing is the only reason. Your typical Apple buyer is just like that dumb woman who throws her money away on overpriced designer shit.

>>57937583
>t. mactoddler

>>57935656
>10 years for a few hundred bucks

>>57938255
I have to both agree and disagree with you. I've purchase plenty of guess brand clothing between peacoats and jackets to laptop bags and t shirts.

When it comes to clothes, generally there isn't a major difference in quality. Most of the time the quality lies in how refined the fabrics are and how good the stitching is. There are far many more variables when relating to computers.

The MacBook takes low hardware specifications and optimizes them to such a degree that it performs similarly to how higher powered PC's performed. Just like how until somewhat recently iPhones were using 512mb of RAM and androids has 2-4gb. Even my android now has 6gb of DDR4 spec ram.

Wowee.

Please don't confuse me with an apple fanboy. I might at most be trying to justify myself by using a MacBook. I'm a religiously anti apple consumer who came across a free MacBook air and decided to give it a shot because he didn't have a PC. I am just trying to give credit where it's due.

Its an overpriced device generally for people who don't want to deal with any hassles or want to have a status symbol. But what's talked about so little is its efficiency and it's power user tools. It just offers a lot that I didn't expect until I played with it for a few hours last night.

It's not as bad as I thought it would have been and even though it's as symbol as shit to use, it feels just like arch with a few key bind changes.

Still made by a shitty company and overpriced though.

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>tfw I have a 2 macbook pros and a macbook air with a few years on them because people I know bought new ones and we're going to throw these away.
>apple people confirmed for idiots.

>>57934984
sheev makes everything better

>>57934461
Design.

In fact Jony Ive was in a Design Museum for designing.

Macos is faster. Just like iPhone and Android. Specs font matter, their os is just faster

>>57938369
>MacBook takes low hardware specifications and optimizes them to such a degree that it performs similarly to how higher powered PC's performed

Fine, but the problem with that is if you decide to use software that hasn't been optimized by Apple for the macos, then I guess you're shit out of luck. Being contained to such a specific ecosystem isn't a good thing imo

>>57938517
Yeah, that certainly does suck. And I said that as well earlier. It's one of the reasons why I don't give them money. But for my current usage which is basic Normie's usage. Large email server, media "consumption", word processing and data management, it works just fine.

It's unfortunate to see for instance a fully loaded 4,900$ laptop not be able to run mafia 2 at a decent frame rate even on mid low settings. But there's something to be said about the idiot to buys a laptop that expensive knowing it's not gonna run good, either. Buy for your use case. I'm positive the that 4,900$ MacBook is going to handle 4k video rendering and export better than most gaming built desktops.

Anyways. I've continued to spew for long enough. All said and done, I was simply impressed with the options I was given inside of MacOS and the fluidity and snappiness of a MacBook air with such low specs. Pleasantly surprised.

I commandeered my GFs 2007 macbook two years ago for shitposting, SSH into my server and some other shit and it's bretty gud.

Battery is gone though and the only replacement I could find that wasn't £5 and obviously fake lasts like 45min top. Some software refuses to run because it's stuck on 10.7.5. Even chrome refuses to update since a few months ago. Also some larger websites absolutely ruins the CPU which sucks but then it is almost 10 years old. Has a Hitachi hard drive with 35k power on hours and 0 reallocated sectors. Bretty gud.

What I'm using it for could be done by any £150 laptop though.

>>57937583

>replying to Botjeet

Mate

>>57938373
Did you tell them theirs is virtually worthless now that the new one is out or were they aware of its resale value? Ive not had opportunities like that in a while and I'm definitely not jelly.

>>57938698
Nowadays with SSDs low latency and new generations of ULV cpus 'fluidity and snappiness' is expected, apart from heavy usage like video/photo editing or any sort of number crunching I have used a meme atom z8500 for a while and for light use it was almost as snappy as my i5 in general use. I also own a machine with a celeron 1007u and it's a great little box running wangblows in my livingroom for plex, Spotify, youtube etc. Everything opens up instantly just like on my desktop.

Tldr lowend shit is more than decent enough for light use, it's not a 'mac thing'.

>>57938870
Low end shit is good enough for light use if you install 4 programs on it and never use anything but those programs. But daily usage is almost guaranteed to bog down any windows or Android machine.

(I do not now or ever will use an iPhone).

My cousins MacBook pro, although it's a significantly more powerful device, has been running strong with no sign of slowly down for over 16 months now. My p50 started to slow down within a month in terms of being snappy with opening browsers and boot up and stuff. Generally I just have things like steam and skype on startup but even those take their toll on Windows machines.

>>57936875
>idiot

>>57938706
Either put Snow Leopard on it or hack on Mountain Lion, Lion was a garbage OS

And you can find plastic-case C2D MacBooks for $50 on eBay now easily; the market has finally dropped out a bit.

>>57934461
becuase ALUMINIMNIMUMUM

>he bought a Macbook

>>57941286
It's not officially possible but I think I came across a guide that lets you so it, it comes with its own problems though.

>>57934461
I find it funny because core2duo thinkpad with riced linux would perform much better for 1/20 of price

>>57935204
>he didnt have lojack for laptops