EDIT: Getting a ton of great responses thanks everyone <3 Once this is up for 24 hours or so I’ll make another edit summarizing everyone’s recs for future reference. Keep ‘em coming!
TL;DR Have any recs for non-Apple phones/laptops that have lifespans of at least 5+ years?
Wanted to get everyone’s opinion on want brands/products have worked for them. I’m lightly techy and not afraid to put some effort in, but also don’t want to build everything from scratch. I think Apple’s products are often anti-consumer, anti-privacy, anti-yadda yadda yadda.
At the same time, with both phones and laptops, I’ve found my Apple products to have double or even triple the lifespan of any other brand. I did my research and bought a $1000+ HP laptop with Ryzen7 a little over two years ago, and due to a flaw in the hinge which is now subject to a class action lawsuit, the screen has cracked and it’s mostly unusable. Other purchase haven’t failed quite that dramatically but don’t tend to last as long. On the other hand, my or my partner’s old Macbooks and iPhones are easily seeing 5+ years of use in addition to software updates.
So let me know what’s worked for you!
Being blasted with ads is your idea of a better experience? You and I clearly don’t live in the same reality.
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The browser. You are forced to use Safari. Safari does not allow extensions or otherwise block ads. I use Firefox with uBlock Origin on my phone.
https://adblockplus.org/
Works as well as ublock origin, which I use on my PC.
Don’t get me wrong I would never advice anyone to use a Macbook over a PC. There are some people who are embedded in their ecosystem, but generally they are expensive to buy and expensive to repair machines. But not having a decent adblock is not one of the reasons I would use.
ABP is, ironically, adware, and probably also malware. You’d be better off with the stock browser.
You are going to have to back that statement up with something.