My laptop stopped charging last week, it ran until the battery died. I tested a bunch of USB-C chargers and cables… Fuck!

It is 7 years old, which is my second shortest run from a laptop.

I started looking at replacements, I have my eye on a Framework, the 13 Pro specifically, now that ship to NZ.

But fuck, $1600NZD for 32GB… That is almost what I paid for my whole previous laptop. Luckily I can take my 4TB SSD from my failed machine, otherwise $1800NZD to replace that.

Update:
I ordered a second hand HP, $940NZD with 32GB of RAM. A couple of years newer than the failed one.

I’ll see if there is a repair cafe near where I am, but this is a good solution for now.

Thanks for all the replies.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 minutes ago

      My scale says it weighs about 2kg. This is the first laptop I’ve actually owned and it is the 16 not 13, so idk how to compare it relative to anything. It can be a bit tiring to carry around; it’s somewhat beefy and that’s without the GPU upgrade. It does look thinner than a lot of the gaming laptops I’ve seen though so I suspect it is somewhere in the lighter end of heavy