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Written by Allie on 2025-01-04 at 06:36

Edit: Thank you to everyone who shared this.

Someone has responded to me with an excellent offer that solves this problem.

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Before I go giving money to strangers on Facebook, I have a problem.

I found out on the evening of December 19th that we have to have a laptop for our 12yo when he starts school at the end of January. School office was closed on December 20th.

Fortunately, they've gone from insisting on shitty Windows laptops, to a "BYOD" model, where they prefer Macs (!) since our last child attended.

It looks like I can pick up something basic & new with Windows 11 ("no S or X versions!"), for around $600-$700, or a used Macbook Air M1 for around $600 on Fb marketplace.

(I can't afford to buy the damn thing, but that's neither here nor there right now).

I would prefer he have a Macbook (because he's less likely to use it for gaming, and I'm less likely to lose sleep over maintaining it), but as I said at the top, before I go giving money to strangers, would anyone I know in #Melbourne have an M1 (or higher) that's in good nick, that they'd be willing to part with?

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Written by Morten Juhl-Johansen on 2025-01-04 at 08:56

@grissallia Specs are funny. Running Windows 11 on a Celeron sounds painful...

But not a lot of gaming going on there.

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