This is still my favourite laptop. It’s getting old now, as it was made in 2011. But I still use it every day.
It’s super portable – 11" screen and very light. And great on battery life. I replaced the battery a couple of years ago, but other than that, it’s been perfect. It has battle scars from being dropped in server rooms, or stepped on by kids. The “T” key is a bit wobbly. It’s slow compared to my shiny new iMac or MacBook Pro, but I still use it every day.
I would say that my favorite work station is my main PC that I sit at every day. It’s an older Dell Optiplex 790 i7-2600 @ 3.40 GHz, 8 GB RAM, with a 1 TB hard drive. It’s running Slackware64-current and XFCE, so it’s still reasonably zippy.
Just finished doing the Mojave upgrade for unsupported Macs on my 2008 Macbook. Aside from pretty dark top menu, all seems good. Did an SSD upgrade years ago and I still use it as my alternate and travel machine.
But I tend to use an 2014 Acer i5 Win10 laptop for 90% of things.
Got to the point I find anything without an SSD is barely usable. Just cloned her Mac mini to one, I’ll upgrade that sometime soon.
Scored a 120G SSD at the Source in Terrace for $30 to do her mini but I got so frustrated with a friend’s machine I stuck it in there instead. She’s rural and has no Internet so she leaves it here and uses it when she visits. I just got an 250GB Evo860 for about $70 for the mini.
I’d still be using my 2008 MacBook (SSD and extra RAM), if it weren’t for drinkable yogurt spills… thanks kids.
My Plex server is running on a 2012 (I think) Mac mini still. SSD and extra RAM there too, and hooked up to a Drobo.
I love keeping stuff running for as long as possible.
This server is now running on a laptop with a broken screen. I installed a bunch of RAM on it, an SSD and a larger hard drive, and installed VMWare ESXI on it, and now it hosts 7 different virtual servers, including this web server and a Minecraft server, my “radar” server, etc.
Thanks.