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Thinkpad every day of the week, MPBs are horrible to do hardware maintenance on. You can also get static electric shocks from the chassi and they don't have a DVI/HDMI connection

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They aren't particularly easy to take apart, but with todays hardware packing I'm not sure any of them are. But the MBP Retina I'm typing this on certainly has an HDMI connection.

I haven't opened the "new" Thinkpads(with chiclet keyboard) , but the T200-series etc are very easy to maintain. For example, the memory slot is just one screw in a special hatch

And guess i was wrong about the HDMI, I've only had MPBs with DisplayPort

Funny that you mention it, I've got static shocks from my MBP 2,1 quite often. Hated it.

Switched to a ThinkPad and I'm happy working with a quad core T530 now. I've also tried the T540p, but I didn't like the trackpad at all. Also, I found the FHD screen from my T530 to be of better quality than the FHD screen of the T540p.

Personally, I will never buy a Mac again.

I have a Lenovo T530 from work and personally owned 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. The things I don't like about the T530 are: * I miss keystrokes on the keyboard when typing and the quality is low. The laptop, cushioned in a bag, rolled from a chair onto the floor and the H key broke off: I superglued it back into place. * With my glasses prescription, the screen is difficult to read (chromatic abberation). A co-worker with the same model laptop experiences the same problem, and my manager also dislikes the screen on her T530. * Unlike ASUS and MSI laptops, there's no default keyboard option to disable the trackpad. I'll regularly and unexpectedly move the cursor or pointer when typing.

Otherwise, the hardware was well supported in Linux (RHEL 6.5, company standard, with NVidia drivers) and even with an older Linux, the battery life is reasonable. For software development I use an external 26" monitor and a mechnical keyboard to get around my gripes. I much prefer the keyboard and screen on my three year-old T420s, and do much of my daily non-development work and all my personal programming on the MacBook.

> MPBs ... don't have a DVI/HDMI connection

The 2012+ versions of MBPs have an HDMI connection on the right side

(Source: using HDMI without an adapter now - also using dvi with an adapter)

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