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In response to "LIR: I agree with spamlet. Unless you need the macbook they just announced, go to their outlet. I've bought plenty of stuff from that and haven't" by kilbooooo

I've had a lot of problems with dying discs, so I'd prefer a flash drive.

Posted by nubby Oct 29 '13, 09:07

Other than that, I want to go cheap. I'm certain we're not a Mac partner. Our ITS loathes Macs.

Thanks for all the help. You guys are great at that kind of stuff.

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apple gives dicsounts to almost every university staff, student, prof. -- nm - amanda jones Oct 29, 09:36
flash is way faster too. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 29, 09:11
FWIW, you can replace the hard drives but not the flash memory. - spamlet Oct 29, 09:11 4
- My current MacBook works fine, but its third disc just died. - nubby Oct 29, 09:17 3
  - But what I'm saying is that if the flash has an issue, you can't do anything with it. It's new computer time. - spamlet Oct 29, 09:19 2
    - True, but it's less likely to have issues in the first place, from what I've read. -- nm - nubby Oct 29, 09:20 1
      - that's right. I'm never going to own another old-fashioned hd computer again. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 29, 09:24

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I've had a lot of problems with dying discs, so I'd prefer a flash drive.

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