An Apple has to be good; Obviously! Excellent laptop!
I was using a Mackbook ,
Absolutely love the battery life on my Air and it was ultra light; But ran out of space and was getting difficult to manage with an external drive
Was
I got this old Macbook Pro 2012 ( non retina) for 52k -
I thought I will be disappointed with the screen - Pleasantly surprised! - This screen is excellent even though its non retina
Now here is what I did, like most people seem to be doing - Magic of upgrading
Got 16GB RAM( 8X2) for 9K - This is to replace the inbuilt 4GB RAM( 2X2)
Got 256GB SSD for 7K - This is to replace inbuilt 500GB Hard disk
Got a Hard disk Caddy for 1.5K - This to replace inbuilt Optical Disc drive with the 500GB Hard disk
End result is a super Mac ! - I now have a personal MacBook with 750GB disc space and phenomenal performance coming from upgraded 256SSD and 16RAM - All this for 70K - Cant be beaten - Saving of 32K compared to Macbook Retina 500GB - Of course Retina is the best screen and great battery,