If I had chosen Apple to do the work, the repair work was quoted at £560 for the repair alone. That was mostly time to back up the SSD, and get the old device checked by Apple, before dropping it back to the vendor who sold it to me for repair within the 2 year warranty period.
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Honestly? I had 4 days in total to have a full strategy and execute it. So how much time did you spend planning to migrate?
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The 16″ MacBook Pro has returned after the repair – but its use case has changed a lot for this device, which is relegated to the home, rather than a field laptop. Mainly because it was the shop for repair for an extended period when it was needed most.Īnd yes – it was the keyboard that failed. Believe it or not – it is not a thing I do a lot. The MacBook Pro 16 with an iPad running as a second screen Apple Sidecar. But we don’t talk about that at this time. Yes – it was a previous generation Jonny Ive MacBook Pro 16” with an Intel Core i9 with 8 CPU Cores, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb of storage and enough heat to melt ice cream just by watching Youtube. Didn’t you have a posh new Mac a couple of years ago? Let us say the cashback and points totals on my credit cards took some major benefits that day. Therefore I could grumble to my own content – or I could swallow the costly pill now and have a computer that should last more than two years. Of course, I could have gone for a less powerful M1 MacBook Pro – but if I spent one more day with that touch bar, I would have declared war.Ĭonfigurations do matter – like it or not thanks to Apple making everything non-upgradable. If I had gone for the entry-level model (which had some CPU cores crippled, GPU Cores crippled and half the storage, it would have been £1900 instead. How much did you wince when you brought it?įar too much – considering the entry-level model was out of stock with no ETA when it was due.
£2399 Securing a reasonable discount was… pretty hard. In this article, it’s a bit more Question and Answer style, moving into a full review and ongoing life review, a day to day life and a bit of an on-going wrap-up. This is a bit more rambling than definitive – but it’s my personal experience from shifting platforms with zero time to prepare an upgrade. Welcome to a new adventure – where I start to get used to life with Apple Silicon.
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