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Review on 15.4" Notebook Apple MacBook Pro 15 Mid 2015 2880x1800, Intel Core i7 2.2 GHz, RAM 16 GB, DDR3L, SSD 256 GB, Intel Iris Pro Graphics 5200, macOS, MJLQ2RU/A, silver by Mateusz Gniazdowski ᠌

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Not a bad purchase, worth the money.

I don't have a very good story. He succumbed to his wife's persuasion about a healthy lifestyle, began to carry food in containers to work. And one day the salad successfully leaked. Yes, not just a leak, but got under the display, as a result, the screen became 15% stained. You can live, but it's bad. The best that they could offer in an unofficial repair was to replace the flooded matrix with a scratched one for 30k (from me). In the official - the replacement of the entire box with a display for 50k. The laptop turned out to be expensive (180k, almost 135 a day for 3.5 years). How did it end up: 1. Dodged on-call tasks (when you urgently need to find a place to access the Internet and quickly resolve some issue on a call after hours). 2. I still ordered a separate, more powerful computer with two monitors to work in the office. At first I connected a laptop to the monitor, I was amazed at the foulness of the fonts, just 2/10, soap. It turned out that the trouble was in MacOS, it can be fixed with one command, but there are no problems in Linux - 1920x1200 on 24 inches, which are a little further than the laptop screen, do not look much worse than Retina. 3. And the laptop remained a home machine for the browser or go somewhere via ssh. And now I work remotely on it, but I want a semblance of the 2nd point home. MacOS gets uglier and uglier with every ate: - now I'm sitting on Mojave, the interface in long input fields periodically freezes, the mouse freezes. - in the previous one, some bug with the date made it so that the percentage was overloaded for no reason (the ate rolled for 2 weeks). - about catalina and big sur, you can just read twitter, everyone whines, everyone suffers.

Pros
  • What I like: I bought it 3.5 years ago, then it was already considered a relatively "outdated" model, but it still works, the price was 130k, which at that time was also not bad for a workhorse. Now the coolers are noisy only when the IDE rescans a new large project and in Skype during the screen sharing (and it doesn't seem to matter who shows it - me or the interlocutor (s).
Cons
  • Maintainability is poor. Weight with a charger for daily wear in a backpack is quite large. Expensive, adds a lot of creepy feel in case you slip in the winter. The built-in TimeMachine is terribly slow. If you do not back up once a day, backup takes 5-15 hours. And this is for a 256GB disk. I myself back up to a self-built box with CentOS 8 + Samba, but the owners of the original TimeCapsule told me about the same problems with the same numbers. The most stupid thing is that it does not rest on the processor, network or disk, the utilization of these resources revolves around 1-2%.