My Mac history
My current laptop is dying of age after 7 years. Thus I'm getting a new one to replace it.
As part of the research, I looked for my last laptop purchase.
I not only found my last one, but also all the previous ones.
So I established my personal Mac history:
| Purchased | Type | Display | Processor | Memory | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2003 | PowerBook | 15.2″ | 1.25GHz PowerPC G4 | 512MB | 80GB |
| January 2007 | MacBook Pro | 15.4″ | 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo | 2GB | 120GB |
| May 2012 | MacBook Pro | 15.4″ | 2.5GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 | 8GB | 750GB |
| October 2017 | MacBook Pro | 13.3″ | 2.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 | 16GB | 1TB |
| November 2024 | MacBook Pro | 14.2″ | M4 Pro 14-Core CPU, 20-Core GPU, 16-Core Neural Engine | 48GB | 2TB |
Reflecting on it, it seems I get quite a good milage out of my laptops.
Current replacement due to age related failures after 7 years is the top one.
The previous 2017 replacement was similar due to age related failures after 5 years.
For the 2012 replacement it is a bit of a different story, as my laptop at the time was stolen from me.
But I still got five years out of it before that.
The 2007 replacement was the switch to Intel after 4 years on PowerPC.
I was very happy with my PowerBook at the time, even helped to reverse-engineer the wireless chipset to write the Linux driver for it :-)