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I'm completely on board with getting a long, full life out of a laptop.

The only problem is that we've got plenty of thought-to-be-durable laptops around that are complete garbage, including a high-end Thinkpad. It's really sad to see.

That said, our M1 MacBook Pro, an X1 carbon, and (very surprisingly) a Microsoft Surface Laptop Go (the cheap one that had terrible reviews - but with the SSD) are looking excellent in terms of long-term durability.

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I've got a bunch of Surface Gos (goes?) in warehousing and they have outlasted everything else I've tried for the application, including the purpose built industrial devices from Zebra and Caterpillar.

We have a bunch of Surface Laptops and Surface Books (looove the books) where I work (auto parts factory) that have survived better than they have any right to. I dunno wtf the previous IT was thinking getting them. They have 8 million magnets and are constantly covered in weld dust. But they keep right on working... shorting out power bricks and docks as they go though. In the process of retiring all of them but I have already cleaned up and let several people take their units home as they still get 5-10 hours of battery out of them and have no other issues. It is kind of wild how durable they have been.

The Surface Go was not a performant computer when it was released. At least the Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz Dell with 8GB RAM that was introduced in 2011 that I mentioned earlier was top of line when it was introduced.

The Surface lineup has really unfortunate naming.

The Surface Go and the Surface Laptop Go are two completely different things!

The Surface Laptop Go is kind of a premium Chromebook-type thing that runs Windows (but can do Linux just fine). And it has AVX-512!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Laptop_Go

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