My personal laptop is still a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 1st gen which works perfectly fine! (except maybe an issue with the "B" key which starts wiggling a bit). I don't use it so much lately but it has definitely a loooot of mileage.
That's amazing because before that I had much less money to put in laptops and they broke after 2~3 years or so. In the end, it's much more cost efficient:
€700 laptop / 2.5 years = €280/year
€1800 laptop / 8 years = €225/year
All that for something literally 3x lighter, with much better screen and performance.
The bottom line is: invest in a computer that's going to be nice to use and last long, it's actually cheaper and better
I don't remember exactly how much I paid for this but I think it was around 1500€. So we're around 187€ per year, plus the SSD and the memory plus adjusting for inflation :D
Anyway, a good deal though.
My old post about how 2018 Macbook Pro were overpriced is not holding the test of time well (though the MBP 2020 prices are steep in absolute terms)
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My personal laptop is still a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 1st gen which works perfectly fine! (except maybe an issue with the "B" key which starts wiggling a bit). I don't use it so much lately but it has definitely a loooot of mileage.
That's amazing because before that I had much less money to put in laptops and they broke after 2~3 years or so. In the end, it's much more cost efficient:
All that for something literally 3x lighter, with much better screen and performance.
The bottom line is: invest in a computer that's going to be nice to use and last long, it's actually cheaper and better
I don't remember exactly how much I paid for this but I think it was around 1500€. So we're around 187€ per year, plus the SSD and the memory plus adjusting for inflation :D
Anyway, a good deal though.
My old post about how 2018 Macbook Pro were overpriced is not holding the test of time well (though the MBP 2020 prices are steep in absolute terms)