Apple MacBook Pro 2019 Intel

Same, the Apple silicon chips have been huge. I bought a 2019 Intel MBP and that was by far the worst laptop I've ever had. After just a year of use it was constantly overheating and running out of memory and disk space, barely able to open a terminal. It was so bad that I hesitated to buy the Apple silicon versions, but the good reviews convinced me and it has been going strong ever since.

I bought an M4 Air about a year ago for under 1000$, it beat out my 2019 Intel MBP by quite a lot. I fully expect the air to last me at least another 6 years or so for my use case. The thing is a beast. Compare this to a Dell laptop I bought when I started college, that thing was 850 dollars and died on me within 3 years. For Apple, I could justify spending more (maybe even 20% more) considering both Apple computers I’ve had feel extremely fast. The only reason I dropped the 2019 MBP was battery fatigue (and I probably could have repaired it for 100$ and gotten another 3-4 years out of it. But the new air was just too attractive).

This is the exact feeling I had. My 2019 intel MacBook Pro has 12 cores, 32gb ram and a 1TB hard drive. Yet, most consumer web apps like Gmail, Outlook and Teams are excruciatingly slow. What is surprising is that a few years ago, these apps weren’t so terrible on this exact hardware. I’m convinced that there’s an enormous amount of bloat right at the application framework level. I finally caved and bought a new M series Mac and the apps are much snappier. But this is simply because the hardware is wicked fast and not because the software got any better. I really wish consumer apps cared less about user retention and focused more on user empowerment.

Tahoe crippled my Intel 2019 MBP and cost me plenty of time and incurred a lot of frustration until I gave up and reformat the ssd. I am switching to Linux for both my desktop and laptop from here on out.

I got my first MacBook at Catalina, and still miss it. For a while, I downgraded my Intel Mac to Catalina again; I love the aesthetic compared to the newer releases, and it’s fast and snappy. But the situation now is: No recent apps work on Catalina since it’s considered obsolete (except open-source apps you compile yourself). But Big Sur and higher are ridiculously slow on Intel hardware, to the point where it’s unusable. I now have an otherwise perfectly good 2019 Intel MacBook that has been gathering dust for the past years.

I have a 2019 Intel MacBook and Outlook takes about five seconds to load and constantly sputters

Not surprising at all. My work issued MacBook top CPU time has been always `com.crowdstrike.falcon.Agent`, before Apple M1 released my Intel 2019 MacBook Pro can barely do any everyday task with that Agent running in the background. It crashed video calls, crashed the entire OS, I couldn't even smoothly type in an IDE back then.

That’s what I expected, and there’s not much they can do given the CPU choice they’ve had. Thanks. My personal laptop is an M3, my work laptop is a 2019 Intel MBP. So I feel and hear the difference every day in heat/noise alone. I’m looking forward to the next work upgrade cycle, whenever that ends up being.

5 years feels pretty long for a laptop warranty to be honest. (I'm typing this on a 2019 Intel MBPro, but it's getting pretty long in the tooth, and if it had died already or last year, I would not have felt like I got an unreasonably short lifespan out of it.) Do I expect a laptop to last 5 year? Yes, most of them. Do I think it's inherently problematic or that consumers were "cheated" if say 25% of laptops only last 4 years instead of 5? I do not.

> Which only works on the M1 and higher models, not the 2019 Intel MacBooks. What? Oh man did I waste a lot of time trying to get that setup on my 2019 Intel Macbook.

Would not recommend. These intel MacBooks are awful. They’re so cheap because every person that had one dumped them as soon as possible for M1/M2 machines.