Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strings Attached

Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by 737maxtw on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:28PM (#24629832)

I usually use this logic nowadays whenever someone asks me about buying a 300$ laptop, UNLESS the use case is, in fact, literally email, static html, and word processing (which I've only seen once).

Spending that extra 150-200 can make a huge difference in longevity.

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Re:Cities Experiment with Remedy for Poverty: Cash, No Strin... by pnutjam on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @01:07PM (#24630300)

I always tell people to buy a used business class (latitude, probook, etc). Electronics that last 2 or 3 years and are in a repairable form factor will last way longer then the cheap consumer stuff. You can get parts for them for close to a decade.

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