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rmuk@feddit.uk 1 day agoIt’s always this. “This brand new £1500 laptop I don’t share with anyone, coddle like a newborn and barely use for anything other than running Office is so much better than the £350 ten year old laptop I was sharing with my entire family and was used for playing video games, downloading warez and pirated media, and running Office.”
To be fair, if I had to choose between Windows and MacOS I’d go with the latter since I do most of my job inside a terminal. A good terminal emulator, a Unix-like environment and Firefox covers most of my needs and somehow iTerm2 is a better emulator than anything I used on Linux.
Still, I’d rather avoid walled gardens and proprietary OSes.
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 day ago
More like €4400 and it’s used heavily for 8+ hours a day as a development machine. It’s 4 years old by now (M1 Max, 64GB) and it still handles everything I can throw at it without breaking a sweat.
Cheap laptops are nothing but trouble, in the end it’ll cost you more in replacements and lost productivity.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I enjoy my T480 I got off craigs for 120$. Cheap but awesome.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
To be fair that was also over a grand new. Not M1 Pro/Max territory but comparable to M1 Air new which outperforms it handily. But is also newer so it’s a moot point.
They’re all great laptops, just at quite different price points.