Thinkpad T series. I have a T410 from ~2009 that's still kicking.

I had never heard of these until a couple of weeks ago…. My friend is Italian and she uses these to make them during the holidays, it’s a tradition in her family.

Edit to add: Not sure if she makes actual “Pizelles”

Knives are not forever items. They are meant to be used, sharpened, and then replaced when worn out.

Ohhh cool thank you!!

Ok great, I was thinking about used but I'm not sure I have the expertise to pick a good one. I have some more tech savvy friends who could help though. Thank you!!

Macs will last the longest so you might also want to explore educational discount since you’re taking classes.

Another option is to go windows by looking for a decently spec’d laptop and just looking for deals on it on New Egg. I’ve been shocked at how low prices go sometimes when a vendor receives a batch they want to unload.

My kids are have been using thinkpad x1 carbon gen 1 for 5 years now. They were $2500 in 2014 when released and I bought 3 of them in 2017 for $267 each. They’re super svelte and pretty durable. 1 of the 3 died last year tho…

Thank you!

The price differences are not as small as you think. And there are bigger product cycle economies in play than just manufacturing cost. Then most people would in many cases go for whatever is cheaper. The price one can very clearly see - how the product is going to hold up in use one can’t.

I like framework laptops. Every part is built to be replaceable/repairable by anybody. Seems super well designed. Planning to upgrade to one myself when my laptop bites the dust.

I've had good luck with refurbished laptops off Newegg before. Best of luck to you.

Sort of an aside, sort of on topic, but suppose light bulbs were supplied by the power company as part of the service. You’d visit the utility office and exchange burnt out bulbs for new ones, for a $2 (1978 dollars) yearly subscription. That’s the world my parents (born 1930s) lived in until the service stopped in 1978 because a store owner sued the utility. My parents would complain about the low quality bulbs they had to buy in the stores, that were never as good as the ones from the utility.

https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/26/archives/free-light-bulb-program-in-detroit-switched-off-upheld-in-supreme.html

Idk about price as mine was around there and what you need more as far as performance. I've used thinkpad's for a while 540p being the worst one. Currently have L13 yoga thinkpad. I work as a mechanic. Use it daily for 3 years. I have sent it in once for fan making noise. I like lenovo warranty.

Get something with the best warranty. If you like mac.. get a mac.. with apple care or whatever they give these days.

if your fine going pc id get a good warranty because nothing last anymore especially laptops that will have to take some bumps.

Do not buy anything under $200. Id say its not worth it.

Pads with a real keyboard is another option thats worth looking into as most document programs are cloud base these days.

Some of this perspective isn’t true, but the survivor bias of what’s still around.

Was there cheap crap offered and sold back then? Of course! But it broke and went in the garbage. Same as now, what’s left are the things that happened to keep going and/or have such a massive stockpile as to still allow replacement parts to be found.

I bought multiple items including MBP M2. Good luck OP

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your disagreement. It's really easy to get a knife sharing enough to cut paper, you can do it with less than 200 grit. Honestly sharpening higher is just for show and personal pride so while it's nice to have a mirror finish (which I do) it's not necessary. The problem I have with electric sharpeners is they only have one angle. So both European and Asian knives are sharpened the same. Secondly, they sharpen both sides when some knives are only sharpened on one side.

Yeah I think I've been using way too much force

These things are the best. The old school ones have an equal chance of lasting 100 years or burning the house down.

All that said, I hope to inherit my mom’s pizelle iron.

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Thank you!!

My classes will be in person mostly so probably just accessing canvas type sites for homework support, then personal use is pretty limited. Word processing and watching Netflix occasionally, but I have my professional work totally separate on another laptop so I don't use my personal one that much. Also because it's old and slow.

No company made a century bulb. That was never a thing.

What you see are regular bulbs that the owner runs at really low voltage which makes the filament not burn out. They barely put out the same amount of light as a candle.

You can do the same thing with modern incandescents.

Check r/hardwareswap and r/appleswap for MBP M2 or MBA M2

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My general rule is determine what features you want first. Like what features do you want as a minimum that would make you happy for whatever you buy. Then find the cheapest appliance with those features.

Then take that price and multiply it by 2-3x. That's the actual range you can expect for a durable model with those features.

It's not a perfect rule but it gets you in the general neighborhood.

But in general you will not find durability at low cost. That is a fiction.

Miele dishwasher.

Miele owners will always make sure to notice a Miele appliance in someone else's house and mention it. It's kind of a cult.