> If you pour cold tea on your only laptop at 7pm just before a gig, buying and setting up a new laptop could prove difficult. Your hypothetical is not consist

> If you pour cold tea on your only laptop at 7pm just before a gig, buying and setting up a new laptop could prove difficult. Your hypothetical is not consistent with the redditor's complaint. The redditor implies that he can survive without the laptop for a day or two--but things become problematic around five days, so I think @tiew9Vii's point-of-view is reasonable. It's also consistent with my situation. I make my living off of my laptop. I don't have a spare, which I think would be a financial waste. If my laptop suffers a catastrophe, I will rent/purchase a stop-gap device. I can take a productivity hit for the 24-48 hours it takes me to get back up to speed.