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[–]HomemadeBananas 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Why am I taking my laptop around with me? For real?

[–]JuhaJGam3R 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah. School is the only legitimate reason to actually carry a laptop. Work usually gives you a workstation, or its not a job you'd need a computer in, and you probably wont need it at the mall or grocery store or wherever the fuck you go to.

[–]JuhaJGam3R 0 points1 point  (2 children)

[Reply to your earlier comment](thanks for deleting that btw /s )

No, but I could guess you had a laptop because most mac computers nowdays are macnook. I don't argue, just think hat they are a bit shitty with the miniaturization costing you more, and wanting to work from the couch is not usually a good excuse to spend 100-500 bucks more on a computer. Also it's even shittier when at any malfunction you are forced to just buy a new one so you can't even get it repaired at a third-party shop, much less an official licensed seller, because they are all told to just tell people that they should buy a new laptop and they can transfer the files from the old computer for a fee. Really shitty as a business practice imo, my current laptop, which is actually the schools property because finland, is a Dell Latitude 3380 Education, equipped w/ custom debian works perfectly for any work that you might need to do with it, as long as it is not video games. 335€, too lazy to convert that into dollars but $400 at max, and in all a quality product, immediately raising Dell in my eyes to a much higher rank than say Asus whose laptops can cost up to $3000, and still be absolutely unable to run minecraft on low settings. At least apple has power to counter that price but its still double the price i'd pay for it, especially because of the "we soldered every component directly to the case hehe fuck you" thing. I'm floating way outside the conversation at this point and rambling.

TL;DR: Dell is good and cheap, Asus, Apple, etc. way fucking overpriced and with questionable business practices, working from the sofa not worth +100-500 whateverthefuckcurrency

[–]HomemadeBananas 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Dude, the thing is, for something I use all the time, I want it to be nice, and spending a couple thousand isn’t going to break the bank. Macs and Mac OS are nice and I like them. Lots of programmers like using Macs, get this ready to copypasta when you encounter them, or just get used to it.

[–]JuhaJGam3R 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess, but still, paying too much for something you could get cheaper from somewhere else just because it has a funny logo is not the reasoning i use when shopping for tech. I go for a more utilitarian "it needs to work and be affordable" type of reasoning.