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<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I have traveled countless thousands of miles with it and it is no worse for the wear. \u00c2\u00a0On some days it does show a very little bit of age but it still serves me very well.<\/p>\nSo Jake what are you saying? \u00c2\u00a0Should I only by Mac’s going forward?<\/p>\n
No I’m saying that at all, I just wanted to mark the passage of time.<\/p>\n
But, if there was one thing I would hope you took from this its that if you want to use something for a while be prepared to pay for it. \u00c2\u00a0Don’t go out and buy a $400 laptop and then lose you mind when it fails, slows down, won’t take a new update etc.<\/p>\n
In almost all cases in this world you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It seems like I missed the 4 year anniversary a couple months ago for my 13″ MacBook Pro with Retina. \u00c2\u00a0I am now at 50 months with the same PC and this is a record. \u00c2\u00a0I have to admit when I purchased it I had more than a little trepidation with the cost. \u00c2\u00a0Behind the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-normal-entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2tyCm-1bZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4594,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4587\/revisions\/4594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Behind the first 486 DX2 66 IBM Clone PC that I purchased in 1992 this is the 2nd most expensive PC in my 28 years of computing<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jakestapleton.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-05-13-at-10.26.03.png?ssl=1\")
<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I have traveled countless thousands of miles with it and it is no worse for the wear. \u00c2\u00a0On some days it does show a very little bit of age but it still serves me very well.<\/p>\n