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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1904866" data-attributes="member: 24098">Hey Nick, thanks for the warm welcome!I guess I've finally let go of any hope of Apple going back to a more traditional hardware model. They are charting their own course as usual and it looks like it's been quite successful for them. At the end of the day, I've come to the conclusion that resisting the tide is futile, so it's better to try to go with the flow. At the very least, these more recent models seem better sorted out internally. A lot of the issues they've had with thermals, display cables and the keyboard seem to finally be resolved. This is a thicker machine to be sure, but it runs very cool and should have a good, long life. I went with the larger SSD figuring more capacity should mean better wear-leveling over time. Fingers crossed!And I get you about the price.... this is by far the most expensive computer I've ever purchased. You'd think with Apple no longer having to pay a premium to Intel for the CPU, they'd pass along some of the savings, but that wouldn't be very Apple-like, would it? <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😉" title="Winking face&nbsp; &nbsp; :wink:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" data-shortname=":wink:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1904866, member: 24098"] Hey Nick, thanks for the warm welcome! I guess I've finally let go of any hope of Apple going back to a more traditional hardware model. They are charting their own course as usual and it looks like it's been quite successful for them. At the end of the day, I've come to the conclusion that resisting the tide is futile, so it's better to try to go with the flow. At the very least, these more recent models seem better sorted out internally. A lot of the issues they've had with thermals, display cables and the keyboard seem to finally be resolved. This is a thicker machine to be sure, but it runs very cool and should have a good, long life. I went with the larger SSD figuring more capacity should mean better wear-leveling over time. Fingers crossed! And I get you about the price.... this is by far the most expensive computer I've ever purchased. You'd think with Apple no longer having to pay a premium to Intel for the CPU, they'd pass along some of the savings, but that wouldn't be very Apple-like, would it? 😉 [/QUOTE]

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