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Some Thoughts on the New MacBook Pro

 23/12/2016 |  Stephen |  General |  

I’ve been working on Mac laptops since the early 2000s. I typically get a new one every 2-3 years. My first one was a G3 clamshell iBook. Since then the hardware and software has evolved steadily, and this week I moved from a MacBook Air to a 3.1 ghz, 512mb MacBook Pro for three reasons.

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