[tristor]

Honestly, you made an incredibly irrational choice. You went from what is likely a $2500 machine to a $250 machine that is more than 10x worse, but you could have gone from a $2500 machine to a $1200 machine that is less than 2x worse by buying a new M1 MBA or similar instead.

The fact you seem proud of this choice and are holding it out as some sort of virtue as if the difference between an Intel Mac from 2017 and an M1 Mac is inconsequential clout chasing is the cherry on top. The efficiency gains alone in the higher performance and lower power usage make running a non-M1 Mac an environmental loss in comparison, considering that as you so clearly point out, Mac's have extremely long usage lifespans.