For OPs use-case which is mainly writing articles, reading and such - an older laptop will work fine. Especially when powered from A/C. My MacBook Pro 2014 bas

For OPs use-case which is mainly writing articles, reading and such - an older laptop will work fine. Especially when powered from A/C. My MacBook Pro 2014 base model can still hold a candle to MacBook Air M1 for general use (even dev work to an extent), and that’s saying something. It’s slower, but doesn’t feel 9-years-old slow - if you know what I mean. It doesn’t drive me nuts to use it and I can be productive on it (my daily driver is a MacBook Pro M1 with 64GB RAM and I own a MacBook Air M1, so I speak from experience). Also, we already do this for cars (used cars market is huge), so why not laptops. In fact, with cars - there are arguably stronger reasons to go with newer tech (safety, automatic cruise control) than with a newer laptop.