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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

That’s cool, but a lot of people (myself included) aren’t able to justify a brand new laptop. I can absolutely afford a new laptop…I just have no desire to buy one when older ones work just fine and have plenty of life in them.

My current laptop is a T495 that I bought at a flea market two years ago for $100 and it still handles all of my needs completely fine. My kid is using a T470 I bought not too long before that for around the same price, and it does everything he needs too (though it could stand to handle Minecraft JE a bit better…)

If you aren’t doing high-end gaming or video editing, practically any computer can handle like 95% of other daily home computer tasks.

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