I put them in a pretty little stack 
My last intel machine I gave a way to someone that needed it 
Previousely I always aimed for the most powerful laptop I could get since I liked the idea of being able to take it with me… but in reality it just sat docked to a big monitor at home most of the time, so I have been rethinking my computing strategy.
I got a M3 Air as my portable laptop now, and the 14" M1 Max is now permanently docked at home…it will be replaced by something stationary when the time comes.
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cmo
I think it was about 7,500 Aussie dollars just for the box, which isn’t a huge amount more than the MacBook 
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muelthe
Coincidentally, I was working on a site just recently and discovered a Dell E173FPF, which according to a brief search, launched some time around 2013. It was still going!
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stevensonmt
That’s cute. I have a 17" VGA monitor as my second screen right now. It’s a Gateway product I bought in 2006 or 2007 (just before the company went poof).
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sbuttgereit
It’s definitely not silent, but ultimately not too bad actually; there are mitigating factors many of which are simply due to form factor differences. The workstation itself (tower form factor) is behind things like the monitor which dampens the sound a bit (unlike a laptop being directly in front of you). I could go further to dampen sound, but for me its not really necessary.
Also, the fans are larger and can move more air at lower RPMs, so the sound frequency and amplitude is quite a bit lower than most laptop fans; so their noise is not very “whiney” like a lot of laptop fans can be. The fans are on all the time, but only rarely do they spin up above their lowest running RPMs. This means there’s a typically persistent white noise like hum in the background with some emphasis on the midrange, but attention on it fades away pretty quickly since it’s constant, not variable.
But… earlier in my career, my desk was in data center server room… so I got use to the hum of fans. Also, I use cherry MX green key-switches on my keyboard… I can’t say noise avoidance is high for me.
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dorgan
I powered it down, went to sleep, and when I came back to it, it never powered up again. I didn’t forget it connected to the outlet or anything, it just died and Apple support was like “we need to send it to the US to repair it and it takes 2 months”, to which I said “no, I want my money back”.
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christhekeele
mcnaveen
I use both MacBook Air M1 8GB and Dell Inspiron 5559 - 16GB RAM running Ubuntu i3wm
Tbh, if I have to compare performance side of things my 8 years old Dell machine performance better than MacBook. Yeah, Dell laptop has bit of heating issue but can be easily solved by putting on top of cooling pad or something.
Another issue is every winter there will be a pile of ants live inside my Dell laptop. No, not because of snacks nearby. This is a global issue. You can Google “Dell laptop ants problem”
On the other hand, with M1 there is a huge kernel panic issue after upgrading it to Sonomo.
From my view, Mac is hyped as productivity machine.
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seeplusplus
I have yet to find evidence of the global spontaneous generation of ants in Dell computers 
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AstonJ
Seems to be a big enough of a problem for an entomologist to write an article about it 
3 Easy Ways To Get Rid Of Ants In Laptop At Home - hope you manage to get them out @mcnaveen!
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