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Hey everyone I'm just looking for advice/opinions
So I recently had a mid 2010 white Macbook, I bought about 5 years ago for around $900 it worked amazing the whole time until it started wanting all these updates all the time, then I noticed it acting up more.. anyways I was in the middle of doing some work for my business and my computer turned off and the power light was blinking and when I'd try to turn it back on it would stay on a black screen, I looked online and apparently that means lack of enough RAM to process anything? who the **** knows? ANYWAYS I was able to get everything off the hard drive onto an external,
my point with all this is I loved the **** out of my Mac especially for using Photoshop and its capibility to have a ton of browsers open with no lagging. I've been using an older DELL just to get by and this computer makes me want to rip my hair out on a regular basis and just try to use my phone for everything instead (which doesn't work)
Is it worth it to buy another Macbook? I have heard from many people say they become obsolete due to all the updates in order for apple to force you into buying a new $1000-$3000 Laptop every 5 years or so? Is this true? And if so, is it worth it to even buy a refurbished older Macbook? I need a computer for my new business and I want another Mac but I also can't afford to spend 2k on a laptop considering the money I need to be putting back into my business.
Any thoughts, opinions, advice would be very much appreciated!
*Thanks for reading this!
So I recently had a mid 2010 white Macbook, I bought about 5 years ago for around $900 it worked amazing the whole time until it started wanting all these updates all the time, then I noticed it acting up more.. anyways I was in the middle of doing some work for my business and my computer turned off and the power light was blinking and when I'd try to turn it back on it would stay on a black screen, I looked online and apparently that means lack of enough RAM to process anything? who the **** knows? ANYWAYS I was able to get everything off the hard drive onto an external,
my point with all this is I loved the **** out of my Mac especially for using Photoshop and its capibility to have a ton of browsers open with no lagging. I've been using an older DELL just to get by and this computer makes me want to rip my hair out on a regular basis and just try to use my phone for everything instead (which doesn't work)
Is it worth it to buy another Macbook? I have heard from many people say they become obsolete due to all the updates in order for apple to force you into buying a new $1000-$3000 Laptop every 5 years or so? Is this true? And if so, is it worth it to even buy a refurbished older Macbook? I need a computer for my new business and I want another Mac but I also can't afford to spend 2k on a laptop considering the money I need to be putting back into my business.
Any thoughts, opinions, advice would be very much appreciated!
*Thanks for reading this!