Looking to replace a 8+ year old Macbook for my wife. It's used at home for take-home work (Medical/non-tech work) and general surfing but not heavy use. Not a WFH situation.

Considerations:
She's not text savvy and can be rough on her tools. I think she would prefer to stick with apple for familiarity and prestige.
I would prefer to find something cheaper that will still last 5+ years and be reliable. I'm more familiar with PCs plus I get employee pricing through Lenovo and HP.

Any recs for a machine that would be cheaper than another macbook but be similarly durable and reliable?

TIA

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Posted by Gabapentin

Member since Mar 2022

352 posts

Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:21 am to Oenophile Brah

Avoid the "thin" laptops, they will get way hotter, not last as long, have less slots to add another memory stick etc. I would also avoid the ones with a touch screen and get a normal laptop, not a dual use type crap they are trying to sell these days. I got a normal HP laptop on sale at Officemax in December and I love it. AMD all around, runs Windows 11 fantastic. Got on sale for $250 before all the inflation got so bad on PCs recently. I found it on a "Deal site" that I browse occasionally. www.slickdeals.net

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Posted by pheroy

Raleigh, NC

Member since Oct 2006

710 posts

Posted on 6/11/23 at 3:35 pm to Oenophile Brah

Apple just introduced the new 15" M2 Air at $1300 for the base config. From your use case comments that should be fine. Since she's using a MacBook, IMO that should be your baseline at the price and it would take a pretty big justification to move off of that.

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