When do you decide to buy a new laptop if you know the next year there will be a better one and the year afterwards an even better one? Why don't you wait next year for the better models? When do you put the cutout?When do you decide that "okay, the model this year is the one I'm buying and I will totally not regret my decision when newer models are released." Because it never ends.
>He doesn't know
>>107690007Why do you make yourself a meal when you know tomorrow there will be fresher ingredients for the same meal available at the grocery store
>>107690007That's why you buy used
>>107690592Doesn't even remotely answer the question
>>107690595it entirely circumvents the whole dilemma
>>107690007I bought a new laptop in 2023 with a Ryzen 7840U because Zen 4 finally had good enough IPC, USB 4 support, hardware accelerated AV1 decoding and integrated graphics good enough to play games on.Previously I had a laptop with an i5 8250U, the reason I upgraded to it was because Intel finally had quad core i5 CPUs instead of the power hungry i7 Q models. And so on and so on. The moment something that's been bothering me is "solved" I see it as a reason to buy a new laptop. Right now I don't give a shit about AI and NPUs, and there hasn't been a sufficient generational improvement to justify upgrading.Incremental upgrades are a waste of money and I don't buy macbooks because I don't like mac os and asahi is far from fully working.
Right now, the concern is about the price of hardware. I'd rather not have to spend $4000 for the relative performance of something that would've been $2000 years ago. Of course this RAM shit is happening when my laptop is nearing 7 years old.
>>107690007If I need a new laptop I buy one then.If I'm sitting around thinking "but next year there will be a better one" then that means my current laptop is fine for at least another year and I don't nees to buy a new one now.
>>107690007Buy a laptop when there's a meaningful improvement. The people who bought M1 Macbooks, for example, didn't regret it.Update only when you need to. If your laptop does everything you need, keep using it.
>AIEEE IF I DONT HAVE NEWEST NEW THING MR SHECKELSTIEN WILL STEAL MY FORESKIN!!!!not my problem, amerigolem
Buy a new laptop when:>your old one is broken>your old one is not fast enough for your current computer needsand if you are a consoomer>the new model represents a big spec (e.g. big jump in CPU performance) upgrade compared to last year's model
>>107690727Retarded take, if you use something every day or make money using it, you should spend enough to get something good.
>>107690007i buy one when i need one, and i dont bother buying one new or having anxiety about them being faster next year. in 2020 i had a thinkpad R60 with xp on it, everyone started pushing zoom and teams with lots of remote desktops, aws, etc that wasnt going to work with XP. I installed 7 but it was getting pretty slow and the battery finally died. I could have bought a new laptop right there in august of 2021, spent thousands of dollars, and be practically where i am now. I looked at a bunch of benchmarks, 8th gen was the first major performance increase since ivy bridge, 9th gen didnt do much, 10th gen was a bit better but also new and expensive. I bought a latitude 5400 for somewhere around $300 and this year web browsers are starting to lag on it a lot. I go look again, 11th gen, iris Xe, its attractive, but they're all quad cores, 12th gen is way better. I look at those laptops, and price out 13th gen too, 13th is significantly more expensive without being much faster, but in this case alone the 7640 is a much better chassis than a 7530, I'll be buying one i like for about $350-400 and use it for another 3-5 years. I can bitch about how its not my problem web developers are retards making needlessly bloated horse shit and be right all day and it wont fix my problem. computers are a subscription service and you have to weed through loads of shit to pay less
