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Old 04-20-2018, 02:49 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by cyrano View Post
I've known Louis for years. I used to do repair. I rarely repair macbooks these days, as there are plenty of other services now. There's a few hurdles, like the SMC. You can get the bare processor, as it isn't made by Apple, but you can't get the firmware. You need a Raspberry Pi, a bunch of clip-on adapters and a working SMC from the same macbook to replace an SMC. And these do fail quite a lot.
Wow small world, he definitely knows his onions.
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Yes!

I recently came across the newest HP laptop. 4.4 GHz turbo, 4 TB SSD, 32 GB ram, under 2.000$, very square, not rouded and flat. Looks nice.
Yeah, the current fashion of ultraslim stuff isn't practical, except for people who find the weight of some items of clothing excessive. I think some kind of regulation/lawsuit against advertising battery life as playing a video on loop with the processor essentially idling is needed too. We live in a world where 15 hours is really 5 because nobody does that.

Cool FrankenPi project btw!
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