
Originally Posted by
Cosmic
Same. I always balked at Apple's prices until I bought one. Mine is almost the same age as yours and still runs beautifully with an SSD installed. I very much feel you get what you pay for with their laptops, even if you intend to run another OS, though that may be a harder sell now you can get a Dell XPS or a kitted out Surface in that price bracket.
My only complaint is how flimsy Apple's charger cables are. Thankfully that's at least one thing USB C alleviates on the new models, just a shame they've ditched MagSafe to do it. Hopefully they're able to sort something out for future models.