Hi, I'm not sure where to start, but I'll try! I ask for advice or a little psychological help because I feel stuck in an endless decision-making loop. Nothing serious or serious mind you, the problems are quite different, but I would still like to overcome this thing. I've always been a technology enthusiast, I've always had a PC since the days of the C64 and by PC I mean Fixed PCs. I also had a Playstation 4 slim (white, beautiful!) that I was happy with, but got stolen when thieves broke into my house a few years ago. Since I moved house (I live together and have a young daughter), I no longer have the space for a fixed PC and so I bought a laptop, which is more than fine for my needs and a console to play occasionally (in my case an xbox series S).
I've always been attracted to Apple products, of which I know the pros and cons well, but as an enthusiast I've always wanted to try this ecosystem. As a smartphone, I've always had models with Android (and before that with Symbian… what a time!) and only recently I got an "old" iPhone 11 with which I get on really well.
Now that I've given you a little preview, let's proceed.
I had an HP laptop with which I had replaced the desktop PC and I sold it for around 700 euros. I sold it because the battery was pretty worn out. The person who took it from me was not interested in this thing (he would have used it only connected to the power supply) and for this reason I was able to obtain such a figure.
After this laptop I bought another HP with which I didn't feel comfortable (seeing the battery go down constantly and visibly even if I did nothing seemed absurd to me). I made the return.
So I bought a 13" macbook air, phenomenal PC, infinite battery and for my needs it was fine but ... the 13" screen seemed too small in the long run and despite having used larger fonts, every now and then I had to focus or bring your eyes closer to the monitor. I also made this one.
Then I bought another lenovo laptop that I sold because the battery was even worse than the HP I had before.
Below I got a macbook pro M1 with the 16 inch screen. Another fantastic PC, but the idea of spending so much money on a product with which I do the same things I do with an 800 euro PC (say) made me bored. Obviously sold.
Now I have an LG laptop, still 16-inch, battery that doesn't have the same life as Macs but that's fine, ditto screen and other things, but the idea of going back to the Mac for an ecosystem fact has come back overbearing.
The problem is that in the last few years I've always made choices like whether I want to become an Apple user and stay closed like that (for better or for worse), but also stop using microsoft stuff (like the Xbox Series S in favor of a future ps5 slim).
However, I continue to have a fixation and think as if I should have everything in a single ecosystem or something like that, even if on balance it wouldn't change my life so much. For example, having a macbook + iphone and an xbox series S, in my head "out of tune" would make more sense to have macbook + iphone + ps5 or android + windows laptop + xbox and it keeps hammering my head.
However, I make 2 important clarifications:
1) I have had a permanent job for more than 20 years
2) I have a very normal social life, I go out regularly with friends and I go to the gym, it's not like I spend the whole day thinking about these things
3) I have a wonderful relationship with my partner and especially with my daughter
4) With the returns and the things I've sold, I haven't lost much money, thanks to the profit from the sale of the first PC, in fact, I'm still positive.
I mean, have any of you ever been in my situation?
I've always been attracted to Apple products, of which I know the pros and cons well, but as an enthusiast I've always wanted to try this ecosystem. As a smartphone, I've always had models with Android (and before that with Symbian… what a time!) and only recently I got an "old" iPhone 11 with which I get on really well.
Now that I've given you a little preview, let's proceed.
I had an HP laptop with which I had replaced the desktop PC and I sold it for around 700 euros. I sold it because the battery was pretty worn out. The person who took it from me was not interested in this thing (he would have used it only connected to the power supply) and for this reason I was able to obtain such a figure.
After this laptop I bought another HP with which I didn't feel comfortable (seeing the battery go down constantly and visibly even if I did nothing seemed absurd to me). I made the return.
So I bought a 13" macbook air, phenomenal PC, infinite battery and for my needs it was fine but ... the 13" screen seemed too small in the long run and despite having used larger fonts, every now and then I had to focus or bring your eyes closer to the monitor. I also made this one.
Then I bought another lenovo laptop that I sold because the battery was even worse than the HP I had before.
Below I got a macbook pro M1 with the 16 inch screen. Another fantastic PC, but the idea of spending so much money on a product with which I do the same things I do with an 800 euro PC (say) made me bored. Obviously sold.
Now I have an LG laptop, still 16-inch, battery that doesn't have the same life as Macs but that's fine, ditto screen and other things, but the idea of going back to the Mac for an ecosystem fact has come back overbearing.
The problem is that in the last few years I've always made choices like whether I want to become an Apple user and stay closed like that (for better or for worse), but also stop using microsoft stuff (like the Xbox Series S in favor of a future ps5 slim).
However, I continue to have a fixation and think as if I should have everything in a single ecosystem or something like that, even if on balance it wouldn't change my life so much. For example, having a macbook + iphone and an xbox series S, in my head "out of tune" would make more sense to have macbook + iphone + ps5 or android + windows laptop + xbox and it keeps hammering my head.
However, I make 2 important clarifications:
1) I have had a permanent job for more than 20 years
2) I have a very normal social life, I go out regularly with friends and I go to the gym, it's not like I spend the whole day thinking about these things
3) I have a wonderful relationship with my partner and especially with my daughter
4) With the returns and the things I've sold, I haven't lost much money, thanks to the profit from the sale of the first PC, in fact, I'm still positive.
I mean, have any of you ever been in my situation?
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