Dear TS

Today i still watch udang on my Mac i bought in 2010. 90% i use to watch stream udang2 di lautan on my mac with high risk of malware related infection but my mac still running same way i bought 5-6 years ago.

And now i wanna buy new laptop which also the new macbook. Not because my current mac got issue anything, but just Apple stopped come out with software update for my 2010 mac.

Yeah, it is quite expensive. But it can last for years, with careful maintenance. MBA can do the job too. Only heard it from other people, but haven't really know it, so I can't really comment too much on it.

AFAIK, you can't upgrade the hardware on all new models. Maybe you can, but it's not that simple. So if you want to buy one, try and get the best spec you can afford. Usually 8gb(or better 16gb) RAM with 256 SSD is good enough.

What consider under utilize macbook? If surfing, watching movie and do some office work will consider utilize them?

That's considered as under utilised macbook for me. If you're doing any software development or designing, then it's good to buy mac. otherwise it's cheaper and better to buy non-Apple laptop

but for me i think macbook software is simply faster and smoother compare to non-apple product. Anyone here feel the same?

I think better buy acer s13 is very slim

What software bro?

MBP 2009 Core 2 Duo (dinosaur) 8GB RAM, 1TB HD, still okay. Can update software. Am running El Capitan.

Only thing that slight lags in MS Office. And well, I have a blue line on my screen.

Mine was snow leopard 10.6 i guess. No update anymore..

Not really actually
If you compare non apple product running on HDD, then statement is true.
But if the non apple product is running on SSD, not much difference in speed.

Currently my rMBP 2014 model Safari does hang from time to time after updating to the latest El Capitan

You have to buy mountain lion. From there it's a free upgrade onwards

I sold my rig n bought MBP. No regret till now. The retina screen and touchpad is suffice for me for not going back to windows.

Definitely worth it. MacBook is very snappy when it comes to performance. Windows machine is no fight even comparing to Mac running boot camp windows.

Hi, I'm planning to buy a MBA / MBP.

I read somewhere that we cannot copy the files freely between the external HDD & MAC. The external HDD must be formatted to FAT32 in order to do that. Is it true?

Nope. But for drive formatted with NTFS, no write permission (can't delete files, can't copy files from Mac into drive formatted with NTFS). Make sense cause NTFS is developed by Microsoft. You can still install third party drivers to enable the NTFS write.

Get SEAGATE external HDD. It comes with a modified Paragon NTFS drivers that specially works on Seagate external HDD only (read/write). So far that is the most cost effective solution to my external HDD. Have 5 external seagate HDD total to date, connected to 3 of my mac devices

tq for the info.

El capitan is not snappy fast as they claimed!

how so?

For Photoshop CS6, illustrator, Word processing, I use MacBook Air 4GB RAM, 128 GB storage on dual OS. Ok so far. Light and easy to carry around. Long battery life

buy the 15inch macbook pro retina currently i am using that to do software and app development