[pmontra]

My HP ZBook 15 from 2014 cumulatively cost me some 2000 Euro considering all the upgrades and replacements. 2 1TB SSD, 32 GB RAM, at least a couple of keyboards (key wear after years of use.) So it's 8 years and going. If the benchmark is the 300 Euro supermarket laptop, well, I've seen friends changing one every two years and another one telling me that it's crazy she has to change her one because it's not even 20 years old (maybe one of the first Vista PCs.)

About my own laptop, given my kind of work (web development Rails, Django, Elixir) I don't see reasons to buy something more recent and faster. On a current project Rails test suite it's slower than a M1 75 s vs 50 s but I can live with that considering that we're not running all tests every time. Typing in an editor is as fast as any computer was in the last 30+ years. I expect to have to replace it either because of missing spare parts or some NVIDIA / Linux kernel incompatibilities in the next years.