My 3 year old laptop, upgraded!
The Background: For many of us, the laptops we bought pre-Covid were mainly for our personal entertainment and/or periodic work requirements - at least mine was. I never bought my machine in 2018 with the intent of using it as my workhorse. However, to be fair, it lasted me a good while (what with over 16 months of working from home). But come 2021, the chinks in its armor began to show. Therefore, a month or so ago, as I was getting seriously bogged down with my ageing HP Pavilion 15-CS1000TX laptop , I started considering a new laptop purchase from Amazon which would be able to fulfill my increasing needs from my machine. Each laptop I considered was upwards of ₹80,000/- which was a fair amount considering that it was going to be a more modern, and a brand new laptop - however for me, it didn't make sense to put so much money into another machine for maybe 3-4 years. Also, it didn't help that I was getting only about ₹12,000/- in exchange for my laptop from Amazon. So...