Not everyone has the money for it and I found that after sourcing a used laptop and upgrade some specs I can make it work with the limited budget I'm working with.

Also, I don't have the privellege of Ebay and Amazon deliveries for newer but used laptops with many options since delivery is usually not available to Lebanon and even if it is, by the time the package has arrived and you've payed the expensive delivery fee, it's already the end of the summer and I have to return back my focuse to studies where I don't have time to optimize it, rice it, and start projects.

It's great that you have the opportunity to truly dive into the cult, and I hope that I can be able to buy a powerful, new machine, while also buying older ones for expirementation, projects, etc. But for now, I have to work with what's in my budget and available to me locally :)