Is a laptop worth investing into these days?
>>107017288depends. what's your use case?
>>107017294>t.
>>107017288Sadly every laptop these days is built to brick itself in 3 years and then be impossible to repair because everything is soldered on
what's the alternative?
>>107017288buy a stinkpad so you can fit in with the cool kids on /gee/
>>107017288Usually they start shitting themselves right after the 1 year warranty ends.Even the shittiest chink phone has its battery dies before everything else.
>>107017288just for browsing, watching youtube?
>>107017288For browsing + porn, yes.For gaming, no.
just use your phone desu
>>107017288If you are going to use it as a platform for anything but gaming,editing,modeling or doing something with AI locally on it is completely fine, otherwise you are buying a little heatstove that will make any of the following a painfully bad experience.Its the worst sort of buyers remorse to waste thousands into a proper streamlined top of the line laptop to find out at the 5 minutes of gameplay the keyboard feels like lava and the frames of the game drop to points of scuffed bullet time in max payne.
>>107017288>investingWhen will you faggots learn depreciating assets aren't "investments"?>I put $400 in mods into this $100 Thinkpad™>I mean, not including what I had to pay the electronics shop to do it all for me because I don't own a screwdriver.>it's definitely worth over $1000 now from all the work I put into it>It's super rare now, there are like 3 other autists in the world that would appreciate it but they're all poorGoddamn retards.
>>107017466>>107017405>>107017486>>107017537>source: "trust me, bro"
>>107017288If you have use for the mobility.And cherrypick what you use, a lot of machines suck, but there is still plenty of good ones around, mainly Dell, Asus, and Lenovo. Furthermore, seek online reviews and discussions of whatever particular models you are considering as even these three companies do make junk you have to wade past as you search for what's good.- If you want a workstation/gaming machine: gaming laptop or Dell Precision- If you want something for casual use: nearly anything will do. Ryzen CPUs provide best bang for the buck.
>>107017552A lot of folks don't strictly consider monetary returns as the result of "investments" - lots of mileage and utility is also seen (and preferred) as the desired return on purchases. Then there is also just plain vocabulary misuse. Cope and seethe, autisticus.
>>107017553My source was spending 1500€ in 2015 in gaming laptop back when 3GB of Vram and 16gb of ram and shitty I7 were the best way to play in games.I might be biased cause I live in a very hot country and the laptop is only play worthy in winter if I keep the laptop next to the open window in a cold autumn or winter season.But sure go on give em your money and buy a laptop sure nothing I've stated before is going to happen you as long as you live in Finland or Kaneeeda.
>>107017649>t. heavily modded T480 ownerCome on, give us the grand total.
>>107017552I don't care if the $1000 dePreCiaTing asSCheeKs are only worth $1 after a year (which they wont) if they saved me $2000 worth of time
>>107017553My shitty laptop from 2015 is still usable albeit with broken USB port while my friend's gayming laptop from 2018 is a pile of waste destroyed by heat.
framework assuming the company survives for at least a decade from nowtheir shit is expensive but if you buy into it now you can just order next gen gpu and cpu upgrades and replace them
>>107017869>but, muh friend's skill issuespoor strawman
>>107017849It's one thing if you're buying a tool to make money or you have a legit use case other devices don't fill, or don't fill well. I'm talking about mindless consumerism and (usually) an unrealistic valuation of used/modified goods.It's like with cars - you can tell people 100 times their new car is worth 30% less the second they drive it off the lot but they're still baffled when they try and sell/trade it a year later and think they're getting scammed. The scam happened a year ago, and you did it to yourself.
investing? no buying the cheapest pos and using it as a thin client while youre on the couch watching tv, or just a dumb browser/whatever else you can get it to do solo when not on your home net, yes gayland cucks will never know the bliss of x forwarding
>>107017288Is this the kig thread?
>>107017405I just replaced the battery on mine. I only had to use a power drill and hammer once.
>>107017288I wish I were a kig
>>107020286Same but im fat and brown
