![]() ![]() A machine so adored by professionals and prosumers that make stuff - developers, designers, musicians, filmmakers - there is just so much we interact with that has a MacBook Pro somewhere along its production chain. I’ve written before about the cultural significance of the MacBook Pro before. ![]() All but guaranteed at this point is an update to the Retina MacBook Pro lines - first introduced with a 15” in mid-2012 and a 13” in early-2013. On Thursday, Apple is set to provide a saviour in the form of new MacBook hardware. In the case of my 15” Retina MacBook Pro from 2013, it has a graphics card that burps glitches, Bluetooth that will just take unannounced sick days, and seems perpetually in the shadow of some deep level fuck ups I’ve made in messing around with terminal commands I ripped of Stack Overflow and wouldn’t confidently say I understand. What you have now is lumbering, is clogged with years of use, and quite likely has some issue you’ve just been putting up with. The thought of this ritual, of greener grass, often has a current machine looking dull by comparison. When it comes to new tech hardware, the ceremony of unboxing, of setting up, of initial customisation is for many a ritualistic process fraught with as much anxiety of lost compatibility as excitement for the unblemished panels of aluminium your hands are now to grace daily. ![]()
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