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I'm very excited about ECC in laptops, and want to buy one as soon as possible, but...

Shame it's released by a company which cannot be trusted anymore. I know the bigger blunder (SuperFish) happened in consumer laptop, but all things considered, I can't trust Lenovo any more. That means I won't buy anything they make. I miss old Thinkpads.

Is there any serious laptop manufacturer left at all? A company that builds good hardware, allows user replaceable battery / memory / disk, and doesn't include any crapware, or things you can't disable (like secure boot, Lenovo style hard disk file replacement, etc.).

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Not really, I think we can say goodbye to user-replaceable hardware with the rise of the Ultrabook form-factor. A couple of months ago I was looking for a laptop to buy and I wasn't in a hurry so I checked out literally every manufacturer I could find. In the end I defaulted to Macbook Pros. The hardware is great and OS X doesn't really get in my way. If you want customization and prefer matte screens, System76 is pretty neat but they weren't available with the keyboard layout of my choice.

Yeah, also using a 2015 Macbook Pro. 256GB SSD is already full and 16 GB non-ECC RAM is small and unreliable.

At least 2015 Macbook Pro 13" is pretty fast and light. I also love the display. Wifi is pretty snappy, download speed from internet is over 250 Mbps, which is enough for me.

I'll swap the internal SSD to 1 or 2 TB model once they become available.

Well, their SSD pricing is pretty ridiculous but other than that I've been really happy with mine. Good keyboard, really nice screen, best trackpad I've ever used. And the thing feels really sturdy compared to most laptops I've tried.

Oh yeah, the trackpad is sweet! I don't understand why other manufacturers put those crappads in their products, they're often borderline unusable.

Its ability to drive 4k monitor at 60Hz is also nice. I know it's not enough for everyone, but 4k is all the resolution I'll ever need from a computer display.

> I'll swap the internal SSD to 1 or 2 TB model once they become available.

I'd personally only do this if the 1/2 TB models were also SSD. OSX is so IO heavy now that any machine without an SSD feels like it's wading through molasses to get anything done.

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