Congrats, hope you enjoy your new machine.
American_Dreamer98
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If you are genuinely considering waiting a year for a better upgrade than im gonna go with know, your device is clearly working fine at the moment.
If you didnt hear a loud cracking sound and your display still functions well, both in holding itself up and performing right, than its fine. The hinge will stop itself when you reach its max and to get it past that you will need to break the hinges.
stardew valley can run on a rasperry pi. It will run amazing on a framework. Depending which laptop and config you get depends on how much heavier it can run, but i imagine something like CS2 would run fine and if you go 16 inch with the GPU option Forza Horizon 5 should run too.
What kind of engineering student? I will be an ME major next fall and have been very specifically instructed to not go apple silicon because of compatibility issues. Make sure your program works with MacOS.
The difference between the M2 air and M3 Pro is minimal. Its like 15% better performance in the best scenario possible, which is unlikely. The money is better spent on buying a higher end refurbished machine or upgrading the ram and/or SSD of the Air.
About as crackable as a bone when you bend it
Its unlikely but if the case causes issues with airflow its not impossible.
Consider this: The average human response time is over 200ms, and you are worried about the response time of 9ms? The laptop will have responded 20 times before you do. Dont worry about it.
Now if you are an esports pro in a competitive high speed game you could notice it, but still it would be iffy.
It really depends where you get them. Apple refurbished is the gold standard. Bestbuy and Amazon are okay (though amazon is the better of the two). Ebay is meh. After that it kinda goes down hill.
Shit. You cant do bootcamp anymore since its Arm so you need parallels (power limited) or a local VM (those just dont run well honestly) and then you are dealing with translation layers. If you need windows, get a Dell XPS. Its as good as they get on windows. If you dont, feel free to buy an M1.
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M1 with 16gb. Yeah it looks a little older and is a little less powerful, but the 16gb of ram will make a much bigger difference in the long term.