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> Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop Is this normal? Changing laptops every 2 or 3 years seems ab
by throwaway328 1y ago
> Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop
Is this normal? Changing laptops every 2 or 3 years seems absolutely bonkers to me
- ido 1y agoI keep macbooks longer, but PC laptops I've had would often start breaking in ways that were too expensive to be worth repairing around that time. I had a Dell XPS whose screen had issues and replacing it (some custom touch screen that didn't have many options aside from dell's official replacements) was something like €600 (conveniently this happened shortly after the extended warranty expired), which at that point in the laptop's life was not worth the expense.
- swiftcoder 1y agoI used to keep laptops 5+ years, but recently I've realised that as a software engineer, this may be a bit of a false economy. It's my primary tool - if I can buy a ~20% performance bump sooner than that, it's absolutely worth it (and a deductible business expense into the bargain)
- notpushkin 1y agoOn one hand – absolutely. On the other hand, I suspect this is the main reason we have those Electron abominations and bloated web apps nowadays.
- swiftcoder 1y agoYeah. Unfortunately as a software engineer I'm constantly on the losing side of that battle - many of the tools I'm obligated to use have long-since become enshitified :/
- nikanj 1y agoIf you hire Wayne Gretzky, don't skimp on skates. A software engineer costs more than a laptop per month, and it's insane that companies have devs waiting on builds a single second longer than necessary. The faster the edit-compile-test cycle, the more value you get for the massive investment of engineer salary.