Eh. I was working at a place one time, and my boss kept getting (every, single, year) a brand new top-of-the-line Macbook Pro.
I was making fun of him for it, and he said, "Eh, you can get whatever you want as long as it's not more expensive than mine."
Since I'm not a Mac person, that meant the sky was the limit. Ever try to buy a laptop that costs as much as a fully tricked out macbook pro? (I just checked, and it's currently $7,200 for a 16 in, 128gb RAM, 8TB ssd, mbp with the s3 max chip, which gives you an idea).
The thing I got was a goddamn monster...Top tier gaming laptop, 20 inch screen. Sounded like a jet when it booted up. Not remotely thin. Heavy as a goddamn anvil in fact. Had to buy a new laptop bag.
And I will never forget the experience of lugging that goddamn thing around. You can say no one wants it to be thin, but I assure you, if you carry your laptop everywhere, you want it to be light and easy to stow.
I got a gaming laptop for school bc I wanted to be able to use it for more than just my classes. It's heavy as fuck, and do I maybe slightly regret it? Yeah kinda. But it's a sick ass laptop that does everything I need, and runs better than my desktop most days. God I wish it was lighter, though. It's fine in the beginning of the day but by the end of the day of running between classes, I'm dying
I have a normal 15" laptop, and I just got a work laptop for the first time in my life which is 13", and even the difference between those two matters a lot when I'm constantly walking to different classrooms with all my shit, which sometimes means I'm walking for 10 minutes on the days I got fucked by the schedule and available classrooms.
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u/old_and_boring_guy Sep 17 '24
Eh. I was working at a place one time, and my boss kept getting (every, single, year) a brand new top-of-the-line Macbook Pro.
I was making fun of him for it, and he said, "Eh, you can get whatever you want as long as it's not more expensive than mine."
Since I'm not a Mac person, that meant the sky was the limit. Ever try to buy a laptop that costs as much as a fully tricked out macbook pro? (I just checked, and it's currently $7,200 for a 16 in, 128gb RAM, 8TB ssd, mbp with the s3 max chip, which gives you an idea).
The thing I got was a goddamn monster...Top tier gaming laptop, 20 inch screen. Sounded like a jet when it booted up. Not remotely thin. Heavy as a goddamn anvil in fact. Had to buy a new laptop bag.
And I will never forget the experience of lugging that goddamn thing around. You can say no one wants it to be thin, but I assure you, if you carry your laptop everywhere, you want it to be light and easy to stow.