Solid power tool, I've repaired mine a few times. Still going strong.

it says on the rating plate exactly how much power it has 315 W.

I came here to say a MacBook. The m1 MacBook Air is found for decent prices right now. Almost every person I know with a MacBook has had it for five years or longer.

I have the same one and it's probably the same age. Was my grandma's then my mom's then mine. My grandma would be rolling in her grave to know I make flavored pizelles like chocolate orange or maple walnut. To her (and all the rest of my aunt's) pizelles we're anise and only anise.

Aww man....

I wish I could send you some.

My wife just made a fresh batch

Wait, you proposed to her with a knife instead of a ring?

And adjustable torque settings. I nearly broke my arms so many times as a scrawny kid learning how to build.

Grandma, I miss you. I haven't had a pizzelle since. 😞

Materials are one thing, tolerances and failure probability is the real cost sink. Sure nicer materials cost more money but getting that fit down to a micron of tolerance or getting a failure rate down to six-sigma is an extremely expensive prospect to mass produce.

Black and decker used to be good, much like craftsman.

Back when black and decker wasn’t a Walmart household brand lol

Suspenderstore.Com. I have bought both thick and thin. Y backs seem too work best for me. No clips.

Buttons only.

Hard disagree.

Braces are an excellent look. But ditch the clips.

There isn't a belt that fits me due to an abdominal surgery scar from my childhood.

Wow!!! A real beauty!!

Look for business laptops. I think those are more durable and long lasting.

Often making a quality long lasting product isn’t as simple as spending a few pence more on higher quality parts or materials as most parts in say a drill are made specifically for that tool, not off the shelf.

High quality brands invest millions in teams to design, research and test these items not to mention a long established brand has had time to evolve their product, this is factored into the final cost. A new manufacturer or budget one often won’t have these resources, they know the principles of how a drill works, they have seen other drills but they can’t afford to test it to the same level or spend so much on r&d so they do their best check it works and sell it. Problem is later the failure is usually some small part of the design which unfortunately didn’t get enough development and testing to fix. Could be a power transistor which couldn’t deal with long term use and fails after a year of regular use, could be a button that can’t deal with so many actuations or insufficient cooling when used in certain temperatures or environments. Point is the aspects are tested and sorted by high end brands often costing nothing to manufacturing as it may just be another equally priced component or having a better fan blade design.

I think about this every time I use a spray bottle I bought at Target. They decided to use as small of a screw on connector as possible and as a result, if you hold the bottle by it's fucking handle when it's full, it's likely to disconnect because of the weight of the liquid is too much for the fraction of a turn they decided to make the screw part.

As a grown ass adult, I have used countless spray bottles over my lifetime. Everything from ones specifically bought to numerous products that come in spray bottles. I have never had any one of those other bottles come apart because I picked it up by the handle. I have never spilled an entire bottle of cleaning fluid because the company was so fucking cheap they didn't want to spend the extra few pennies to use an adequate amount of plastic to make a functional product.

I still have this bottle because I hate wasting things and don't want to create additional waste. But every time I use this product and the handle comes off I curse the name of Target and their penny pinching bullshit of making your customers suffer to generate extra profit. Did they really need to squeeze out those pennies? Couldn't they have just passed the cost on to me? Did they not realize how spilling a few dollars worth of cleaning product because of a improperly cheap product pisses people off? Did they not realize I would immediately see the little Target logo on the bottom of the bottle each time it happened and blame them? They spend so much money to advertise and make me associate good things with their brand. Why did they make something so horrible it would fail to do something so basic?

It doesn't make any sense to me.

Of course! For your budget, you could certainly spec out one of those laptops. Let us all know what you settle for!

Try to look into framework. They try to make a long lasting Laptop you can upgrade

I bet it runs like crap and doesn't have shit for power. I mean its sticker says double insulated even though thats been the industry standard for years. And black and decker is an awful brand of tools.

Damn it, you just made me lose the game. I was on a ten year or so streak. Thanks bud.

this

Bruh

I'm not an Apple fan but you should definitely get a MacBook with an M2 chip and the most ram you can afford.

Check into the educational discounts, assuming they still do that.

If you get used, get a MacBook refurb (current generation only) directly from apple.

Macs have a good reputation for lasting. The old recommendation for durability and repairability used to be thinkpads. Framework is a new manufacturer that have modularity and repairability as one of their key ethos’s, check ifix-it for reapairability scores, I think some of HPs stuff scores well.