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@undo Does this look a little too good to be true to you? seattle.craigslist.org/see/syd/5799537155.html

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@Seth Yes, because he's making crap up

That's what I figured.

MacBooks never run operating systems older than the one they shipped with. 10.8 was shipped in 2012

Also, 500GB implies spinny disk, which physically couldn't fit in a 2015 machine

you can't fit a 2.5" HDD in a 2015 MacBook Pro?

@undo So what's the scam?

The picture attached shows a 2012 or prior machine. It's possible they're just confused

@Seth I suppose you could if you took out a bunch of battery and maybe some aluminum. All Pros model year 13 and newer have custom weird-shaped SSDs

Interesting. Thanks for the help :)

I wouldn't have known any of this stuff.

Honestly I'm just super fed up with all this Windows 10 crap.

(just upgraded to the anniversary addition, without my consent, ofc)

@Seth You should have stuck to Windows 7 like me :)

And I need Office for school.

@Seth LibreOffice :)

@DavidPostill Either they're confused, or they're hoping someone doesn't know their MacBook models and jumps on the deal and it's actually an 09 machine or something. Or they want to take all your money and kill you.

@DavidPostill Already have that ;)

So standard Craigslist

@DavidPostill The cheapscape within me upgraded to avoid having to deal with 7 going EoL.

My first line of action is trying to get office 2010 installed in WINE. It's platinum rated so I think it should work.

Anyway @Seth if you're in the market for a MacBook, be wary of anything >2013 for anything less than about 800. The things hold their value like crazy.

yeah, hence the ping :)

Although it's more like people are just willing to pay $$$ for something with a shiny logo than it is value, IMO.

But we've had this discussion before ;p

Maybe, but value is what people will pay

fair enough, fair enough.

Got your 5X yet?

I really don't have $200 to spend on another computer, but I'm so mad right now I'd probably do it.

@undo Yes!! It's awesome.

Yay!

Minus the weird bug where my SMS app won't play the notification sound. Haven't had time to track that down yet though.

I got the Adopted case with the fabric back on eBay for $8. Either it's real or a crazy good fake

I tend to think it was a reject, the headphone jack wasn't cut out right. Nice sharp knife made short work of that.

Nice! I am probably going to get a slightly more rugged case than that though. I treat my phones well but when I'm out sailing or biking I'd like a little more peace of mind.

@undo Very likely.

@undo Did you end up keeping your fi service or is it a wifi "tablet" now?

Looking at that post again, all the specs are for a 2012 machine. So I'll say they're just using the date they bought it instead of the actual model year.

@Seth Keeping it for now, darn useful in a few situations.

And it's not like I have any other recurring expenses, so I don't have an issue with the $24/mo

@undo Totally. btw, depending on what your usage and budget looks like you could get service for ~$7 on Tracfone (what I do, since I hardly call and use data).

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I use a 2012 Pro, it's still a respectable machine. Still iffy on that price point, though.

@Seth I'll probably end up doing that eventually, but I've kinda gotten spoiled on Fi and their customer service

It's nice having one service I feel like I can open a chat with and actually get something fixed.

Looking at you, CenturyLink

@undo yeah, customer service isn't exactly amazing with TF, but they do have a pretty decent chat service.

Since things mostly "just work" I'm ok with that tradeoff for the low prices.

Yeah. I tend to average 2-300M a month, so I'd fit right in to a cheap plan

That'll go down on the winter, too

@Seth dual-boot Windows/Linux

... on a MacBook :P

@ArtOfCode You're talking to an Ask Ubuntu moderator here lol

huh, so I am

IIRC office doesn't run on Ubuntu, right?

why are you doing anything with windows?

@undo WINE, or LibreOffice

you can be pretty sure if I'm using Windows it's because I can't help it.

@undo Not exactly. There are pretty good OSS alternatives and some versions of office will run just fine in WINE (what I'm about to try). But otherwise no.

@ArtOfCode I need Office and VMWare workstation for school. I was using Libreoffice but some weird formatting I had to deal with kept causing me issues and VMWare kept crashing.

Yeah, so a little bit hacky. Not to bad of it'd work in WINE

I need to reinstall my Linux install, which might fix the VMWare issue. I've kind of messed it up over time.

@undo 2010 got a platinum rating by WINE testers so that seems like a good bet.

@Seth talk to your course leader, ask if they can recommend an alternative equivalent for Linux

@ArtOfCode alternative to?

windows/office/vmware

@undo You don't have to use the smartphone plans, if you don't want. Any normal TF card will work. For e.g. a 60 minute card will give you 180 minutes, 180 SMS, 180MB of data, and 90 days of service.

That's what I'm planning to do - likewise, we need Windows with Office and VMWare, which I have but I'd like to be able to do it all from Linux

@ArtOfCode I've already tried all the known good alternatives to Office..

@Seth sure, but your CL might come up with something

and since I'm connecting to a VMWare vSphere server I can't exactly replace VMWare.

Alternatively, Google docs

@Seth heh, pretty soon I'd have ALL THE MINUTES and still be buying cards for data :P

@ArtOfCode That is actually a decent idea I had not thought of.

@undo You can get 1GB of data for $10 in its own card.

That's my current solution until I can get Linux native

'Sides, if your institution uses Google services, you should have unlimited Drive storage along with it

@Seth So Fi pricing without the $20 service fee. Not bad.

@undo and the refunds. but it rolls over so I guess that cancels out. It really isn't a bad deal.

and you get to pick your network of choice (T-mo, Verizon, or AT&T).

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