A Very Well-Timed Upgrade: Why I Finally Bought a New Laptop
Acer Swift Edge AI 14 Finally, a new laptop. It's been five years since I last purchased (upgraded?) my main laptop. The device that I purchased back then was the Apple MacBook M1. That M1 chip, I tell you, it's one of Apple's best ever releases, and probably in all of tech too. Over two years ago, I sold the device to my wife, and she's been using it since then. I wasn't using a laptop much back then, so it was better for the machine to be with someone who would be using it. A few months after that, I purchased an old but refurbished Dell laptop. The Dell laptop had an ancient Intel i5-8325 CPU, but thankfully, because it was a machine designed for a corporate environment, it had some security features enabling me to use Windows 11 with it, barely. I never really got along with it. It was a decent machine, don't get me wrong, but the major painpoint for me was the battery life. It would last just barely over an hour in Battery Endurance mode. I've upgrade...
