I agree with you Justin. I've had Macbooks now going back about 8 years. I feel like they are the best laptop on the market hands down. No ethernet is annoying cause you have to carry around a thunderbolt adapter but other than that I have no complaints..
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <li...@mtin.net> wrote: > Many folks look at the Apple line as expensive. I have a 2008 Macbook pro > that has been my daily laptop since I bought it. Has been at tower sites, > etc. Mine is a full size 15” MacBook Pro. If you are looking for a field > laptop I would suggest a macbook air. > > Not to get in a “holy war” but I am running the latest Operating system on > a computer almost 8 years old. In all fairness it has had a motherboard > swap because the keyboard would no longer work. A replacement keyboard did > not do the trick so I took it in and the diagnosis had faults on the > board. For $400 I sent it back to Apple and they replaced the motherboard, > replaced my failing DVD drive, replaced the top case, and something else > (can’t remember). > > I run VMware fusion for Windows stuff. A mac isn’t for everyone. You have > to put forth effort to learn it, just like anything else. > > Justin Wilson > j...@mtin.net > > --- > http://www.mtin.net > <http://t.sidekickopen26.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XZs3N1JKKW1p8b7-63BmqTW64k9XR56dWxNf8vBN2802?si=5679648505069568&pi=C285354D-6CEC-466B-A6A4-54A2C40BC9BE&t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emtin%2Enet> > Owner/CEO > xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth > > http://www.midwest-ix.com > <http://t.sidekickopen26.com/e1t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7lC8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9nMJW7t5XZs3N1JKKW1p8b7-63BmqTW64k9XR56dWxNf8vBN2802?si=5679648505069568&pi=C285354D-6CEC-466B-A6A4-54A2C40BC9BE&t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emidwest%2Dix%2Ecom> > COO/Chairman > Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric > > On Nov 2, 2015, at 9:44 AM, D. Ryan Spott <rsp...@ngc457.com> wrote: > > +1 and the location manager to flip between ip settings is the best. > > TCO is so low it's not even funny. > > ryan > > -- > D. Ryan Spott | NGC457, llc > broadband | telco | colo | communities > PO Box 1734 Sultan, WA 98294 > 425-939-0047 > > On Oct 31, 2015, at 12:10, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote: > > We use MacBook Pro. > > We still have one in service from 2009 ;) > > > > On Friday, October 30, 2015, Jay Weekley <par...@cyberbroadband.net> > wrote: > >> Looks like it's time for a new field piece. I'm looking for a smallish >> netbook/laptop with an ethernet port but more importantly I need a good >> battery. >> > >