Keep in mind this is the same website where someone casually mentioned buying a $5,000 Lecia for their kid.

Would you rather junior drop a $500 laptop while they're not paying attention, which is what kids do, or drop a $2,000 laptop?

The second hand market on this is also going to be great. Maybe Junior upgrades to an M5 air when he starts college, he's going to sell his Neo for 300$ which is very accessible for most.

My first laptop was 350$, brought after working for 6.75$ an hour. It was objectively a piece of junk, but hey I got to do computer and it lasted about 3 years before randomly failing for one reason or another.

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Shalomboy 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I could use a laugh today, do you have a link to the leica comment? It wasn't that one review of the Fuji X Half, was it?

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		It was definitely the Fuji X Half review. https://arslan.io/2025/06/14/fujifilm-x-half-is-it-the-perfe... And I must make a correction, he doesn't explicitly mention trusting his kids with a 5k Leica. He's using a 10k M11 as a family camera and he lets his wife use it. Still, I'd imagine a family with this type of money would have no issue giving the kids 500$ MacBook. I should of brought up the thread where someone felt they needed to buy each daughters a Tesla...

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hypfer 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Neither.

I would like the bubble that is this website's "community" to pop, crash down back to earth and see them struggle living like normal people again.