[rarrrrr]

After watching Louis Rossmann's live repairs and informed bitching, I bought an almost maxed-out Lenovo T480 on the President's Day sale and hackintoshed it. Water-resistant, backlit keyboard that's awesome and isn't crazy loud/fragile. 16 GiB, WQHD (could be brighter), Samsung 1 TiB 970 Pro and giant extended battery. 9 hour run-time. MIL-spec rated.

EDIT: I had a pre-Retina A1278 mid-2012 MBP with 16 GiB and 2 SSD's for a long time. MagSafe 1, okay keyboard, generally bulletproof for a while until the external ports and logic board traces started corroding from humidity and temperature extremes. :( I bought a broken screen MBP for $170 USD to get a working logic board cheap to recover and migrate off. Donated to a sane-but-poor itinerant writer/journalist/commercial fisherman.

[bluedino]

Had a T480S for work. Nice port selection. Kinda thick. Speakers stink.

Powerful CPU. Upgradeable RAM/SSD.

Keyboard is nice, trackpad isn’t that great, screen isn’t as nice. Plus you’re stuck with Windows or Linux.

[0_gravitas]

LR has absolutely guaranteed that I will never willingly purchase an apple product in my life.

[dep_b]

Which kind of makes you think what he thinks of what his business really is in the long term. Repairing Macs that nobody buys anymore probably not.

[0_gravitas]

I doubt hes under the delusion that people will stop buying apple anytime soon, and even if they did, it shouldn't be too hard for him to pivot to doing more general repairs.