Dear community,
I am looking for a laptop around 500 bucks, while I am a hardcore Android/Windows user, for the previously specified price, windows laptops aren't looking too good. I found a couple of MacBook's on eBay (12", Core M 5y31 1GHZ, 2015), and they look like a much better deal than the Pentiums and 720p displays of Windows laptops in this price range. I am a very mobile person and don't think that a bulky plastic laptop would be convenient. I edit photos (a lot), I am an author. Thus I need something reliable and durable. I currently own a Lenovo Ideapad 510 15" Intel Core I3 6100U, GT940MX, (which I will probably give to a family member) but I had SO MANY ISSUES (boot loops, a uncountable amount of blue screens, unresponsiveness at it's finest, etc) in the past 6 months that I decided to just give up windows on the portable market. I have been attracted to the MacBook pros from 2012 at 500 bucks but I have found the 12" MacBook with around the same performance as the 2nd and 3rd gen i5's, and a "very good screen".
anyways I would very much appreciate an "outside" perspective on the matter
Kind regards,
-Thomas
I am looking for a laptop around 500 bucks, while I am a hardcore Android/Windows user, for the previously specified price, windows laptops aren't looking too good. I found a couple of MacBook's on eBay (12", Core M 5y31 1GHZ, 2015), and they look like a much better deal than the Pentiums and 720p displays of Windows laptops in this price range. I am a very mobile person and don't think that a bulky plastic laptop would be convenient. I edit photos (a lot), I am an author. Thus I need something reliable and durable. I currently own a Lenovo Ideapad 510 15" Intel Core I3 6100U, GT940MX, (which I will probably give to a family member) but I had SO MANY ISSUES (boot loops, a uncountable amount of blue screens, unresponsiveness at it's finest, etc) in the past 6 months that I decided to just give up windows on the portable market. I have been attracted to the MacBook pros from 2012 at 500 bucks but I have found the 12" MacBook with around the same performance as the 2nd and 3rd gen i5's, and a "very good screen".
anyways I would very much appreciate an "outside" perspective on the matter
Kind regards,
-Thomas