Just got a new macbook pro anyone with bad experience?

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It was time to upgrade from my old bar of soap macbook of 8 years.

Compusmart was blowing out the 500 gig flash drive 13.5 pros and I got a sweet deal, got the last one.

It sure starts/loads up fast and the transition was a pain, just because my time machine was working but the disc was unrepairable.. and I had to buy a new slave to repeat the backup.

After that it was seamless. so far it is lighting fast and without a hitch..

Anyone ever have a flash drive system fail? I think it would be disastrous if you didn't do a backup,,, Am I wrong?
 

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The wife has had one for a out five years. Has had a couple issues but nothing too bad. Her issues is they don't make the 17" anymore. I went with Mac book air and love it. Took a week to get used to and won't go back to a pc
 

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Its funny, a guy at work was using my mac pro yesterday... its touching 4 yrs old he asked me how much is this thing worth.... must be new eh...wow is this ever fast compared to my new acer... he is a die hard android/pc guy but is buying a new mac asap now.
 

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I have 4 Mac Book Pros in the office and they are all used daily especially mine and my assistants. I just bought a new one as the other one was almost 5 years old. Zero issues for all lap tops. Would never go back to a PC
 

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i used an external backup for my time machine. every once in a while I would get a message that the disk was n't repairable.. I ignored it, but when I tried to restore to my new macbook pro, it wouldn't do anything.
I got lucky there, so I bought one of those western digital My passport for mac drives. It's a 1TB flash drive.

I did backup through passport, and it restored my new pro to the older unit's settings. It's just like I never changed computers, except for the new OS.. Pretty schlick. It is about

the size of a pack of smokes and uses a usb for data and power. No more plugging power in anything, it's quiet too.

Here is a pic of one, mine is only ⅜" thick though.

wdmacdrive.jpg

We have 2 in the house. Awesome units. And no I havent backed them up lately.I know I'll reget it some day if I dont.
 

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99.99 at best buy. they have a 1.5 TB for 149, and goes up to 4 TB
 
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