I'm honestly not sure where I was going with this post. Perhaps probing to find out if I'm choosing a cost-effective upgrade. Appreciate the comments though!
Yeah, I feel like I haven't rushed the upgrades too soon with the GPU. It has been almost impossible to get one at a normal price these past three years though.
Some spending is flowing over the top of the spending dam, but I don't think it's about to give structurally. We're also spending a bit on vacation around this same time, it feels worse to spend a lot at once but honestly it doesn't make a difference if we spend it now or spread out as long as it's isn't a pattern.
Or perhaps I’m going about this all wrong and I should instead spend half of that budget on repairing my PS5 and the other half on continuously buying new controllers after they get stick drift.
How is this going to affect battery life? Some of us don’t have the switch connected to power 24/7. Sounds like a bad idea for an underpowered handheld device.
For phones 5+ years of updates is good compared to the alternatives, and is why I have one. For a computer, on the other hand, it’s just not very impressive. Perhaps FairPhones come close (don’t know how long their software is supported but their selling point is longevity), but their specs aren’t that impressive. On the flip side you get something repairable.
MacBooks are often built better with higher quality materials than many other laptops, but it is essentially a computer. Most computers that have high enough specs will always run the latest version of most Linux distributions or Windows barring any need for weird drivers from the past century. Feels a little iffy to have a perfectly good computer that won’t update software anymore just because. Up until recently you could just install some Linux OS on your old MacBooks when it went out of support but honestly I don’t know whether you can still do that after they started making non-x86 stuff.
With all that said, haven’t seen many laptops physically outlive MacBooks’ updates. With the exception of some ThinkPads and possibly some XPS models. Plastic laptops with plastic hinges tend to struggle keeping up, especially if the display is on the larger side. A large gaming laptop living the life of a typical MacBook, going to cafes and university in a backpack every day is probably gonna have more stress on hinges etc.
As for HP I have only heard bad stuff about them for the last 10 years or so. Don’t think I’ll buy stuff from them due to their evil printers that won’t scan without ink etc.
Not many specific recommendations here but just some observations I have made. Hope it’s helpful.
Isn’t the whole point of pest control to kill ‘em [the pests] dead? Like, to have recurring business from the same customer one would have to not actually solve their problem. Barring any reintroduction of pests with seasonality as you suggested, or otherwise.
I'm honestly not sure where I was going with this post. Perhaps probing to find out if I'm choosing a cost-effective upgrade. Appreciate the comments though!