# Time To Buy An Apple Laptop

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-an-apple-laptop/526410>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 25, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-an-apple-laptop/526410 "2010-01-25T19:48:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-an-apple-laptop/526410/21 "2010-01-28T02:50:39Z")

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No .edu address but my sister is a grad student at U of Waterloo so she can get the discount.

And my father is a teacher so I think he can also get the discount. Either way, I’m saving some money.

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**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-an-apple-laptop/526410/22 "2010-01-28T18:12:38Z")

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> [@SanibelMan](#):
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> My 2006 MacBook is still going strong. Some websites are slower, but that’s because of more reliance on Flash and other things now than there were back then. But no, it hasn’t gotten bloated at all.

So is mine, although parts of the plastic case have chipped away and been replaced several times under warranty, and are starting to chip away again (no more warranty :(), so I really can’t recommend the plastic body Macbook.

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