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Old Jul 1, 2020 | 7:58 pm
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Taikucing
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Originally Posted by tanglin
If you would prefer Apple, you could look for a used MacBook or Mac Air. (New Mac Air starts at $1k now so out of your budget).

Payback comes IME with longevity. My MacBook is early 2015, still used everyday. The one I bought for my daughter when she started college 7 years ago is still in use today.
I prefer 2012 non-retina MBP, it's still updateable to the latest osx, you can get it from $300-400, change to SSD & upgrade the memory to 16gb, voila, it's pretty fast for most college needs. The only downside is the battery.
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