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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal.
A laptop is a living creature. It has weight to it. A laptop breathes and produces body heat. And it wants to die badly. Mobile phones are not sentient like that & that's why they don't experience mental illness. A phone problem is like "out of storage :(" or "charging port broke". Laptops will cough weakly as they fade in and out of consciousness.
You will hold a laptop in your arms and it's like "I can't feel my legs". And you tell it girl you never had any.

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[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's like my MIL, she bought a 150 euro android phone and always complained about it. At some point my wife got a new iPhone and gave her mom the old one. Now she is telling everyone how iphone is so much better than every android phone.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

My phones have all been around that price range (250-300 CAD) and none of them ever had problems besides the basic hardware wear and tear mentioned in the OP. I don't play games on my phone, but besides that, I think my usage is pretty typical.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Honest mistake. Never should have given her the iphone. Just get her a dumb phone if she is buying a 150€ smartphone