random laptop topics

[Colif]

(I don't see one from Brian)

Companies may be happy to lease laptops from a company but how many Individuals want to Subscribe monthly for a laptop?

maybe... I mean, they do this for gaming laptops and its an easy way to get a gaming device now when ram/GPU prices so high... its just a trap.

I don't want that to become normal. Its not like it reduces waste at all.
On this deal, there is no buy out option so you will never own the machine, just borrow it...
You can upgrade to a new model after one year.
Any damage done while you have it, you pay. No warranty.

Hardware value depreciates fast, you probably end up paying more over time.
Never obsolete has been tried before...

They can lock you out of laptop if you miss a payment. A paper weight you cannot get files off.
I prefer to buy one than to lease one. Less restrictions as to what I do with it AND a warranty if any damage happens.
I am not willing to go along with owning nothing and being happy. Renting everything isn't the answer.

 

[Zed Clampet]

(I don't see one from Brian)

Companies may be happy to lease laptops from a company but how many Individuals want to Subscribe monthly for a laptop?

maybe... I mean, they do this for gaming laptops and its an easy way to get a gaming device now when ram/GPU prices so high... its just a trap.

I don't want that to become normal. Its not like it reduces waste at all.
On this deal, there is no buy out option so you will never own the machine, just borrow it...
You can upgrade to a new model after one year.
Any damage done while you have it, you pay. No warranty.

Hardware value depreciates fast, you probably end up paying more over time.
Never obsolete has been tried before...

They can lock you out of laptop if you miss a payment. A paper weight you cannot get files off.
I prefer to buy one than to lease one. Less restrictions as to what I do with it AND a warranty if any damage happens.
I am not willing to go along with owning nothing and being happy. Renting everything isn't the answer.

Pretty crappy deal even by "renting a computer" standards, which are not high standards.

I went to one of their pages, and I landed on their "AI" laptops. That is so potentially misleading. All those laptops are good for are small, repetitive AI tasks like the ones in Adobe Photoshop. You could get a cheaper gaming laptop that would do things 60 times faster. Plus, you can't even install most of the offline AI programs on those laptops because they don't have CUDA cores.