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It's s wonder you keep buying Apple kit - my experience has been almost polar opposite - still have a 2003 iBook, 2006 MB with SSD that is decent at browsing, 2008 MB Unibody running Mavericks, 2010 MB Air that's still quite snappy, a 2010 MBP with SSD upgrade running great and a Mac Mini that I just recently donated to a disadvantaged friend after upgrading to SSD.

Only failure I had was a 2004 iMac G5 that died in 2007 - that SOB was heavy, and was not missed. Personally moved to all-laptops after that.