Writing a blog post on my Asus F17 gaming laptop like driving a 3 mpg dump truck to the grocery store, except I was just playing 2 rounds of CS-2 on Steam a few minutes ago, so I need that performance for smooth gameplay, while Pandora was streaming beautiful music, I was playing practice against NPC's like normal, since I am old, I cannot keep up with teens in the community maps, but I can smoke the robotic players, they are kind of funny, in practice mode on CS2. Counter Strike, Half Life before that, its an iconoclastic PC game. This gaming desktop from 2020 blows the doors off a high-performance desktop I built in 2014. With a 150W adapter, these are laptop chips, based on i5 and RTX 1650, so discrete graphics GPU by NVIDIA and CPU by Intel, with a dope dual copper heat pipe dual fan, heat exchanger hot air out the back cooling system.
I have an iPhone 17 that I just replaced the 9H screen glass privacy protector on, the prior one had 3 major cracks and 11 minor cracks, that happened when I was doing a DIY construction project at home.
I have a M2 MacBook pro laptop also, that pairs nicely with the iPhone.
I have a 2014 Acer Notebook computer that was $650 from Costco, and it still works, based on HDD, it takes a min to get going, not snappy, but can watch a YouTube movie, stream music, write blog postings, no need for a big heavy powerful gaming laptop, which as of 2026 are desktop replacements, they have incredible performance with the latest M2 SSD's, fast RAM SO-DIMM, efficiency optimized chipsets use less power to pump gaming FPS fast enough for causal episodic gamers like me. Portal 2 my all time most favorite game, other than Counter Strike, which I have played on every game console and every computer I have ever built or owned, even the MacBook Pro M2, the last Intel iMac, another of my computers that still works. Even my iPad 2 still works, all these years later, can your believe it, with the original battery too, incredible.
I was configuring a desktop build on Amazon earlier and got to over $1200 for the PSU, MB, CPU, CPU cooler, GPU, AM5, AMD 9000 CPU, DDR5 52000 2X8GB RAM, adding a monitor, keyboard & mouse and desk for it, over $1500, so stalled, not now, prices for PC parts seem a little high, especially RAM prices, vs just a few years ago, that same desktop build would have been $800 or so. Will I build a gaming desktop, I am not sure. I have a higher priority expensive Paramotor Wing to acquire as my next big ticket item, and not sure which one to go with yet.
I have refurbished Apple Watched Series 8, the original one I bought new failed, it would turn on an work on the inductive charger, but as soon as removed, it would turn off, so the battery seems like it died, so I took it to the Apple Store in Bellevue Square Mall, and they sent it off for refurbishing and then I got a call about 10 days later and in bland cardboard box I found what looked like a brand new Series 8 in dark blue, just like my original but not all scratched up, for $130 they game me a like new refurbished unit, since the battery replacement repair did not work. Apple has superior customer service, privacy, and the hardware Apple sells really long lasting, as noted with the iPad 2 that still works.
How much computer do you need at home. I have 3 laptops, a iMac & Linux desktop in storage, smart watch, smartphone, tablet that still works, I have way too many machines, but like it like that, Windows, Mac, and Linux, something for any occasion, the M2 MacBook probably the most power efficient with performance, the iPhone 17 has A19 processor that runs on a tiny battery all day so its even more power efficient, but without the giant battery of the MacBook or ability to run on grid power the same way. My wife's MacBook Air has MagSafe charging, while my MacBook Pro M2 only has dual USB-C for power input output and data input output, that broke, I had to pay the Apple store about $80 to change that part, the USB-C stopped working, oddly.
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