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Dragos Bulugean
Dragos Bulugean

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This bad boy got a new battery

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This bad boy (MacBook Pro 15 late 2013) just got a new battery.

I’m hoping to keep it alive until Apple comes up with a decent pro laptop again.

I had it serviced yesterday, and I was nostalgic.

Learned Node.js (v0.11) on this device in 2013.

Got promoted to software architect working on it.

Built an AI product in 2015 on it.

Pitched a COO of an F500 company with it.

Got my 1st gig (and the next 40) as a consultant and executed on it.

Built Archbee as a diagram tool on it.

Pivoted Archbee into a docs tool for technical teams on it.

Sold $60K worth of Archbee licenses on a deal on it, first month into the pandemic.

Got it to $1M+ valuation from the first angels on it — the same year.

Now we’re close to 100 customers paying monthly subscriptions.

It sounds cheesy, but I love it. I’m not going to sell it or let it die dusty somewhere on a shelf.

The build quality, the keyboard, the retina display, the rock-solid OS, the speed of it. It’s so good.

And people saying it's not worth $500 bucks more than other laptops. It's worth $10,000 more... if you value your time.

I hope Apple can go back to this type of magic device.

What's your most loved device? Let us know down below why.

macbookpro #apple #quality

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