I saw this post and wanted to ask the opposite. What are some items that really aren’t worth paying the expensive version for? Preferably more extreme or unexpected examples.

  • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    -14 months ago

    You should buy AMD ones, but some of the newer models need to be selected a bit more carefully, as unfortunate as that sounds. ThinkPads were the gold standard, but they are now becoming the least bad one. That is all I can say, with my L470 pretty strong after 6 years, a HDD change, battery change and base cover change.

    Unfortunate to hear you got a bit burnt.

    • @Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      04 months ago

      Well, my new workplace selected it and paid for it, I just have to use it.

      Personally I’d have gone with the AMD CPU, at home I rock a 5800X3D :)

      Intel’s power consumption is off the charts unfortunately. Those e-cores didn’t help at all.

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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        04 months ago

        Intel is a joke, and it will only stop when they actually use lower nanometre node process, instead of stacking a + every year on top of +++++++ marketing stack.