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Personal Narrative: The Limits Of Outliers
I looked up Macbookpro life expectancy outliers, because the question always posed for laptops are, “How long will this last? When will I have to purchase another computer?” It all depends on the usage, and other outliers with a few days to seven years. My family has had many laptops (I come from a family of nine children), and most of them lasted about three years. We played video games on them, which I believe was a strong reason why that was their limit. Outliers would be these: my dad has an old Visio laptop; I think it is now 8-9 years old including a refurbish job done at the 5-year mark. He never did any more than work on documents (he is a school teacher), and it continued to plug away. The second oldest brother had owned a Dell XP

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