Time to get a new MacBook Pro?

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About 2x what you get on a Windows PC for roughly 50% more investment

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What are you basing this inaccurate statement on?

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I have a Fall 2015 MBP and it's a beast. Zero issues. If the OS ever gets stale and unusable I will be giving it a LINUX upload.

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Totally depends on your buildout, but OP implied he was starting to see performance degradation. After physical wear and tear from travel and daily use, and historically disk space (no longer an issue w SSD), 7-8 years has always been a solid benchmark for me on Mac, even with ability to continuously upgrade Mac OS.

And 4 years has traditionally been EOL for workplace notebook PCs. We don’t max out resources on workplace PCs like gaming PCs, so lower RAM, disk space and proc generally means a faster turnover. And w Windows, EOL on OS generally means procure a new PC rather than upgrade. Costs are simply too high to push new OS across the fleet on physical PCs.

And now on-prem virtual desktop and movement to DaaS, we are buying zero desktops and fewer notebooks. Thin/Zero clients are so cheap and easy to deploy with super low support costs.

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I’m always limping along

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PEBKAC. Problem exists between keyboard and chair. I've ridden Intel and AMD rigs for far longer with out of the box performance, but I am also super careful about Spyware another other BS. I get splendid performance out of an RX580 I bought eight or nine years ago, even on an Intel 4970K build I set up a decade ago, before I switched to an AM4/X570, 5600X about two years ago. Using the same RX580. I do go wildly overboard on RAM when it is cheap, and I knew SSDs were the first thing that needed to be upgraded from HDD.

Your PC lifecycle at work is based on accounting deprecation, and how the leasing model works, not because they go bad over time. If your computers go that bad, that fast, you have an IT administration problem, not a computer problem. I may have finally found the one place that can make a computer run more shittily than my company does the work laptop I use only when forced, and it's where you work.

I've opened IT tickets with "SCREENSHOT ALREADY ATTACHED," whereupon I get asked for a screenshot four days later, EVERY SINGLE F@#*ng TIME I've opened a ticket, so I feel your IT pain. I've only worked at my company since July, and it's by far the worst IT I've ever seen, going back to the 90s and Windows for Workgroups. At least you're not in your mid 40s and are not permitted to change your wallpaper (like me.)