Comments on: What’s the life of a new MacBook Pro?

By: moy12

moy12 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:19:46 +0000

My Macbook 13 has lasted 4 years now. I had Apple care and used it to replace the battery and the power supply. I use it for work and home so it has seen a lot of hours. If it's white, get a skin and one of those covers for the wrist rest and the track pad. They get dirty

By: bestestsoccerdog

bestestsoccerdog — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:19:46 +0000

It should last 5 years +. I have a regular white macbook and I'm on my 3rd year and it's running fine.

By: Michele C

Michele C — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:19:46 +0000

My macs are 4 years old and going strong.

If you had a mac you would see apples here—> ???

By: Jessica Queller

Jessica Queller — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:19:46 +0000

Any laptop should last 3-7 years before a hardware component fails.

This is true for ALL laptops. Macbooks do not have special hard drives that are less prone to failure than HP laptops.

Your HP laptop dying after only two years is unusual. Either by just freakish chance it died early. Or you don't know how to take care of it and somehow damaged it (overheating is usually the culprit behind premature hardware failure).

By: bsghost123

bsghost123 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:19:46 +0000

I have a 476 Mac, vintage 1992 and it still works. That's 17 years. I now use a MacBook and put my G4 Quicksilver in the attic and that still works, it's 7 years old.