Refurbished Latitudes are cheap and great. I don't need the latest and greatest features for my portable work computer.

unless you find them absurdly cheap in which case go nuts

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Lot of times it’s the warranty/support difference.

In most places, you are able to use computers to decrease the profits used to calculate your tax if you're a business. The relevant law in the US is MACRS which allows you to claim depreciation of certain assets (which includes computers) as a deduction. This may be spread over a set period (5-6 years for computers) or potentially claimed all at once (via a section 179 deduction). Generally speaking, the amount you'll be able to deduct is approximately equal to the cost, if it's solely for business use.

In many contexts, "tax write-off" and "tax deduction" are used as synonyms. The IRS calls this sort of thing a deduction, so I'd say it's fair to call it a write-off too.

I edited it to Busch as I had simply forgotten what year it was also insert that saving Private Ryan getting older gif here however I would personally state that even if it was President Obama given that it’s been 12 years since he stopped at office that still quite a long time for a machine to be running just like I did the day it was opened

7560 and it's expensive and trash.

It's The Verge. Nothing but Apple products will do for anyone there. Most especially since they get all that shit free from Apple.

Taxing revenue is fine, so long as the tax is low. Many businesses are unprofitable, so a heavy burden on top would reduce the incentive to start a business.

On that note, a flat tax would be nice.

Yeah, my G4 Yoga has 2 USB-C, 2 USB-A, HDMI, and headphone jack. There does exist a "thin at all costs" Thinkpad, but that's the Nano, which does only have 2 USB-C and a headphone jack, but it's way smaller than everything else decent on the market and will still have a better keyboard.

because an "expense" that isn't directly business related shouldn't be deductible

you could argue that your home heating bill is "business related" in that you couldn't do business the next day with the zero sleep you would get without heat but the tax code has to collect something to pay for govt services.

Alternatively we could simply tax revenue and the tax code wouldn't favor any type of "expense" but our system is based on "profit"

The laptop is added weight rather than the only weight you’re carrying.

As a baseline I am lugging my laptop to and from the office via public transport 3 days per week (yay hybrid). On there trips I am carrying a backpack with lunch, water, gym gear, a few papers and the laptop.

Then there’s the 2ish business trips per month where the laptop is carried through airports and hotels, getting used in lounges and cafes. For these trips it’s in a backpack with a power adaptor, many more papers, pens etc and whatever else I need for that day on the road.

All this is giving me a bad back!

I don’t think you know what a tax write off is…because buying laptops for your business is not it

Tell me about it. Out of stock everywhere.

Why shouldn’t all expenses be deductible? Why is private aviation any different from other businesses?

I do wonder how people break so many laptops.

Yes. I have this piece of crap from work. The screen is terrible compared to my personal MacBook Air.

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Well when you have 5 vendors that sell five different product line that require varying levels of licencing you need vms to keep everything separate. For instance there's extremely old Allan Bradley equipment out there 30, 20, 15 years old you need vms to store those softwares on them so you can communicate with old equipment. You need it to keep customers separate and you need it so you can just stop the virtual machine if there's any issues within the environment you've created. But....it's still just on a laptop for the field stuff. It's just an extremely expensive laptop. When I'm sitting in my shop we have a virtual environment that I can log into and do what I need to. We still have clunky laptops you're honestly not going to come sweeping in and replace that aspect in the near future there's to much old shit out there still. I mean hell I just worked on a GE 90-30 that's still in service this week. That's....older than most people on Reddit.

So twice the price in a useless form factor? The beauty of the original pi was the famous ‘credit card sized computer’. It’s the same SOC, they have just stuck it is a keyboard. Hobbiests wrote the majority of the guides and did all the hard work making them into off the shelf solutions for everyone else. No one is running octopi on a 400, no one is sending a keyboard to space, no one is buying them because they are not versatile. Same SOC, twice the price, far less useful. Defeats the purpose.

pi 400? I got one for 70USD and received it today.

That doesn't excuse the shortage of regular pi of course. But it's a nice alternative.

BUT they don't have a CSI port.

But USB cameras exist.

And how much do those cost when available? Am I going to build a £400 cluster of keyboards? The simple fact that 400s are even available suggests there are SOCs available, they have sold out to industry and that’s really all there is to it.

Meanwhile the pi 400: "Guys? Hello? Is anyone here? You still remember me right? I'm in stock!"

Do you really think IKEA would be sourcing different screens for each store to support local business? IKEA was only an example anyway, 400000 are made every month - that’s an awful lot of small businesses don’t you think? The numbers don’t add up, small business can’t be consuming nearly 5 million Pis a year, that is not small business.

You've been to 460 ikea locations? Or enough to know the screens aren't provided by a local business for local ikeas