Well, what sort of tool is your laptop to you? 8GB RAM and a hefty SSD are pretty sweet technology, but really when it comes down to it for me, laptops are about comfortable semi-portable computing, not power.
Even if you could get all that stuff for a more standard $2k, if it weighed 12 lbs and could fry eggs with the heat output it wouldn't actually be a good piece of technology (for me). I can code just fine on my 4 lb laptop, and when I'm watching something from a distance of my lap the display inches just don't seem to have much effect. Games are the only thing where I worry it doesn't quite have the juice, but I'm not really the type to be running cutting edge games anyway.
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Even if you could get all that stuff for a more standard $2k, if it weighed 12 lbs and could fry eggs with the heat output it wouldn't actually be a good piece of technology (for me). I can code just fine on my 4 lb laptop, and when I'm watching something from a distance of my lap the display inches just don't seem to have much effect. Games are the only thing where I worry it doesn't quite have the juice, but I'm not really the type to be running cutting edge games anyway.