My $200, 12-year-old Thinkpad has outlasted two high-end Macbooks
That laptop computer above?
It’s probably the most indestructible, nonstop, received’t-die pc I’ve ever owned.
Full. Cease.
I’m going to put in writing an entire rattling submit about it however the tl;dr is …
If you need a contemporary, attractive, light-weight, high-powered laptop computer? Go get one thing dear from Apple or Microsoft.
However if you’d like one thing that’ll value virtually no cash and maintain working till the solar explodes?
Get an previous, used Thinkpad.
Permit me to unpack this …
My {hardware} story begins every week in the past once I was engaged on my Macbook Professional.
It’s my foremost laptop computer, which I purchased in 2017. I wanted a machine {that a}) may run Logic Professional (the best music-editing software program accessible to humanity), b) had a high-resolution display for my awful eyesight, and c) had a 1-terabyte exhausting drive. It was the one machine that match the invoice.
It was tremendous costly, however my aim with laptops is to purchase one thing with sufficiently glorious build-quality that it’ll final for years. I additionally hate e-waste, so I attempt to repair my laptops to maintain them going so long as I can. I purchased my first-ever Macbook Professional in 2010, and I bought seven years out of it — together with changing a fried motherboard (fortunately simply earlier than the three-year guarantee ended, so: It was coated! Woo)
This newer, 2017 Macbook Professional? I’d additionally had it mounted a number of occasions earlier than. It had gotten water harm in an accident, which required some inside work. I’d had the loathsomely terrible “butterfly” keyboard changed when it died. I’d changed the battery twice.
However after six years, it was nonetheless chugging alongside!
Till final week, when out of nowhere it went kaput.
I used to be engaged on the Macbook, and closed the lid to have lunch. Once I opened it once more quarter-hour later, the machine had shut down. Nothing I did may coax it again to life.
So I jumped on my bike and introduced it to a neighborhood laptop computer restore place. A number of hours later, the technician texted me to clarify what had gone kablooey. Apparently there was {an electrical}…
