sooner or later we're all gonna be buying libre laptops 
@kirby
Heh, true, I have two T4x ThinkPads (original by IBM) too, they are still useful for some things. I didn't get them because of all this hype of course, these were my work laptops and I just bought them out on leaving the company.
But aren't my daily drivers of course, my laptops are old MacBook Pro and old HP ProBook and my workstation is old Mac Pro. Not that I'm not satisfied with them, but sooner or later they will die their own death and I'll probably get something by System'76 — definitely not vintage ThinkPad, I don't see any point in it.
@mischievoustomato @m0xee
Heh, true, I have two T4x ThinkPads (original by IBM) too, they are still useful for some things. I didn't get them because of all this hype of course, these were my work laptops and I just bought them out on leaving the company.
But aren't my daily drivers of course, my laptops are old MacBook Pro and old HP ProBook and my workstation is old Mac Pro. Not that I'm not satisfied with them, but sooner or later they will die their own death and I'll probably get something by System'76 — definitely not vintage ThinkPad, I don't see any point in it.
@mischievoustomato @m0xee
@mischievoustomato
I doubt that I'd be getting Apple ever again, I hate what Mac OS X (or now macOS) has become, even looking at that UI is painful for me. As you can see I'm not the one who has only read things about how bad Apple is online, I've been using Apple hardware almost exclusively for over a decade and my hardware is still mostly Apple even though I'm not using Mac OS X anymore. But no, this is it for me, I'm not walking that path anymore. Especially now that Macs use Apple Silicon and using anything other that macOS would mean relying on reverse engineered technology — that is definitely not what I'm willing to do.
As for Asus — I don't hold this brand in high regard in terms of reliability. I might be well behind time and things change, but I still view it as a cheaper brand. Were I to go for some mainstream brand, it'd probably be HP — I've never used HP before, but I've been given this old HP ProBook for free, I have upgraded it with 16 gigs of RAM and a terabyte SSD and I kinda like it.
But I'd still probably go for one of the libre hardware brands, System 76 and Framework have pretty good reviews. But to each their own of course.
@kirby @m0xee
I doubt that I'd be getting Apple ever again, I hate what Mac OS X (or now macOS) has become, even looking at that UI is painful for me. As you can see I'm not the one who has only read things about how bad Apple is online, I've been using Apple hardware almost exclusively for over a decade and my hardware is still mostly Apple even though I'm not using Mac OS X anymore. But no, this is it for me, I'm not walking that path anymore. Especially now that Macs use Apple Silicon and using anything other that macOS would mean relying on reverse engineered technology — that is definitely not what I'm willing to do.
As for Asus — I don't hold this brand in high regard in terms of reliability. I might be well behind time and things change, but I still view it as a cheaper brand. Were I to go for some mainstream brand, it'd probably be HP — I've never used HP before, but I've been given this old HP ProBook for free, I have upgraded it with 16 gigs of RAM and a terabyte SSD and I kinda like it.
But I'd still probably go for one of the libre hardware brands, System 76 and Framework have pretty good reviews. But to each their own of course.
@kirby @m0xee
@mischievoustomato
Trying new things is always good! Who knows, maybe for you it would be just right. Besides, Apple hardware usually has high resell value — if you don't like it, you can always sell it and not lose much.
@kirby @m0xee
Trying new things is always good! Who knows, maybe for you it would be just right. Besides, Apple hardware usually has high resell value — if you don't like it, you can always sell it and not lose much.
@kirby @m0xee
@mischievoustomato
Yeah, people tend to be extremely biased about tech. Especially here on Fedi. I think you can only ask for very specific advice like whether would something work with this hardware at all, but never something general like whether it would be right for you. They often tell you to get something purely based on something being good in theory or based on spec, without having actual experience using it — and in reality it might be way different
@kirby @m0xee
Yeah, people tend to be extremely biased about tech. Especially here on Fedi. I think you can only ask for very specific advice like whether would something work with this hardware at all, but never something general like whether it would be right for you. They often tell you to get something purely based on something being good in theory or based on spec, without having actual experience using it — and in reality it might be way different
@kirby @m0xee
these things are going to be near unmaintainable when they reach 20 years
25 is gonna be barely hanging on
30 is just bye bye