Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "Is new iMac trash?" video.
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Interesting you should mention the a1278 model. Just picked one up at a flea market over the weekend (for all of $75), although it's listed as a "mid-2010" model (did they just re-use the number?) It's only my second Mac (after the iMac Rev.D from 1999, that we lost in a house fire some 11 years ago). It does what I need it to do; gives me experience working with MacOS, and was priced at about the maximum I would spend on an Apple computer these days. It even runs 10.13 ("High Sierra") and is likely something I could repair myself if needed (maybe even watch some repair videos from that Rossman fellow).
But yeah, if I can't fix a computer, I don't want it. If I wanted a machine with all the components, memory and processor included, permanently wave-soldered to the motherboard, I could get a $200 Asus laptop rather than a $2000 Mac (and even with everything else built-on, it still has a regular HDD, and is possible to dismantle without trashing the entire system).
At work I was recently sent a "laptop refresh" email, and had my choice of a Lenovo or an MacBookPro. I looked at the specs, and the Lenovo was far more useful for my needs (especially when I attach two external monitors) than the Apple. Specs were far better, and the Lenovo was running Linux, which gives me far better control over my desktop environment than Apple would deign to allow me.
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