@coldtea’s advise is still sound.

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.

> 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.

You have your data backed up, yes? Just curious.

If something is that important then you really should have a backup, even if it's something like a VM that can be spun up quickly in the cloud, or an older machine that's still better than nothing. It makes sense not to rely entirely on the manufacturer's ability to investigate, draw a conclusion, and issue a replacement in a time frame that's guaranteed to be reasonable for you.

Many people cannot imagine live without phones. Computers at home on the other hand are not perceived as a necessity. And at work typically there is a spare PC or some other way to survive while the computer is under repair.

But the Reddit poster uses the Mac for his job in the music industry. So I'd say it is a necessity.

> But the Reddit poster uses the Mac for his job in the music industry. So I'd say it is a necessity.

The general idea is that when it comes to business, contingency planning and backups (data and hardware) are considered to be requirements.