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+title: "Re: On replacing My Macbook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480"
+category: "blog"
+abstract: macbooks are overrated. Performance is overrated. Overpaying is overrated.
+date: 2023-02-21T12:16:48+01:00
+year: 2023
+draft: false
+tags:
+- apple
+- macbook
+- thinkpad
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+Max Rozen published a post named [On replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a Thinkpad T480](https://maxrozen.com/replacing-my-macbook-m1-with-thinkpad-t480), and it essentially says what I had encountered a few months ago. My [X1 Extreme](https://d-s.sh/2022/month_without_apple/) is much too powerful for my needs. I don't create music nor generate 3D graphics. I'm a humble developer and have never maxed out this device. Yeah, the battery life is far from what I'd love it to be - but that may be Linux.
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+But what I've largely forgotten about is how easy it should be [upgrade a computer](https://d-s.sh/2023/openable-laptops/). You buy a MacBook, and the only way to change any component is by purchasing a new MacBook. This is terrible for the consumer.
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+My wife needs a computer for Cytrix. And what have we got her? A 15O USD worth of thin-pc. You can change the CPU and storage and add ram there if Cytrix decides that Windows 11 is the way to go. But we don't need it now. 
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+Apple made the technology world amazing for investors but hostile to real users. As I [wrote before](https://d-s.sh/2023/macos-is-now-spying-even-more/)
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+> It's 2023, and I see no reason to buy anything from Apple anymore.
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