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Is the MacBook Pro 2018 worth it today? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by ew001@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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For work reasons, I need to get a MacBook to continue working on a new task where I am, I found one for 500 dollars and delivering as payment my equipment a 2017 Dell is left at 300 dollars. The main use I will give it is merely for office and programming.

The specifications are as follows: Intel i7-8559U 16 GB RAM 512 SSD 13.3” and a resolution 2560x1600 Battery has 248 cycles

I'm open to recommendations

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[–] 4v3ngR@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

2016 - 2020 are not worth anything these days. The 2016 and 2017 suffer from "flexgate" - in which the backlight cable is not long enough and eventually breaks - and they all suffer from "dustgate" - in which dust (or crumbs) can enter into the lower portion of the screen and break the tracks on the data ribbon cables, resulting in a pink screen to be displayed.

You're better off getting a 2015 macbook pro, or save up for an M series (in which Apple has fixed the dustgate design flaw - even though they've not yet admitted it to be a design flaw)