Revision to Picking a Mac
| Towers: ***Mac Pro*** | |
| - | Laptops; ***Macbook Pro, Macbook Air,*** (***2017 Macbook*** |
| + | Laptops; ***Macbook Pro, Macbook Air,*** (***2017 Macbook*** INFO BELOW) |
| ***Imac*** is for normal users | |
| ***2017 Macbook and Macbook Air*** is for people who want to do light things on it while traveling due to it being really light (even more so for the 2017 macbook) | |
| - | NOTE: OLDER systems are better because if it is like the 2009 to mid 2012 macbook pros they are unibody so you can upgrade/repair it easily, Newer ones (around 2017-present) with the retina display are harder to repair and on the storage and ram are soldered on the Motherboard Which means no storage or ram upgrades so you need to pay abit extra when buying one the to get enough ram for what you intend to do with it. |
| + | NOTE: OLDER systems are better because if it is like the 2009 to mid 2012 macbook pros they are unibody so you can upgrade/repair it easily, Retina Macbook pros (2012-2016) can be repaired not as easily tho, Newer ones (around 2017-present) with the retina display are harder to repair and on the storage and ram are soldered on the Motherboard Which means no storage or ram upgrades so you need to pay abit extra when buying one the to get enough ram for what you intend to do with it. |
| NOTE: late 2012 - present ***Imacs*** have ***adhesive*** holding on the screen, | |
| - | NOTE: ***Mac minis*** are so compact its really hard to repair, |
| + | NOTE: ***Mac minis*** are so compact its really hard to repair,[br] |
| + | NOTE: 2014 to 2016 ***Macbooks have known problems*** like CPU, GPU, Sound, USB-C |board going out randomly, DO NOT BUY THEM!!!!! [br] |
| + | also you have to take apart the whole computer to get to the battery do to all of the computer is on the bottom cover |
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