Laptop

[Wurstwasser]

Dear Linus Tech Tips Forum,

i am currently in the market for a new laptop, but i do not want to spend that much money, because i will not need it so often, so i went on ebay, 

and found an offer for a macbook 12inch 2016 for 300 euros.

It's the perfect formfactor for me (very thin and light),

but i am concerned about it's performance.

It only has an intel core m3 from late 2015 early 2016 (skylake),

and although i only want to draw with a drawingtablet, write texts, make some music with fl studio edit some 24fps 1080p videos and maybe play some half life cs 1.6 or minecraft,

i suspect the performance of the chip to be insufficient,

and i am not familiar with mac Os.

What do you think?

Does the chip hold up? Is it a good offer? Are there problems with mac Os i have to watch out for?

Thanks in advance

[DoctorNick]

15 minutes ago, Wurstwasser said:

Dear Linus Tech Tips Forum,

i am currently in the market for a new laptop, but i do not want to spend that much money, because i will not need it so often, so i went on ebay, 

and found an offer for a macbook 12inch 2016 for 300 euros.

It's the perfect formfactor for me (very thin and light),

but i am concerned about it's performance.

It only has an intel core m3 from late 2015 early 2016 (skylake),

and although i only want to draw with a drawingtablet, write texts, make some music with fl studio edit some 24fps 1080p videos and maybe play some half life cs 1.6 or minecraft,

i suspect the performance of the chip to be insufficient,

and i am not familiar with mac Os.

What do you think?

Does the chip hold up? Is it a good offer? Are there problems with mac Os i have to watch out for?

Thanks in advance

The core M3 is mega slow and in the Air its even slower. Also watch out for Apple.

 

If you can get a 2nd hand thinkpad from the same era, you should be good.

[Vishera]

14 minutes ago, Wurstwasser said:

It's the perfect formfactor for me (very thin and light)

And a 1 GHz dual core CPU...

[KKLawrence]

Sounds to me like you should go for a Windows laptop, since FL Studio will be better on Windows. For Editing on Windows you can use DaVinci Resolve, also free and great

I would look at a used Ryzen Laptop, maybe one with a Ryzen 5 4500U
Don't cheap out to much on a Laptop, since you'll be using it as your Main PC and a Laptop is basically a pre-built with included keyboard and monitor.

What is your budget?

[Wurstwasser]

My budget is around 300 euros, i'll look for some ryzen laptops on ebay, maybe i find a good offer

[Wurstwasser]

Thanks for your help, didn't really find anything better, but i did some research on that m3 and i think you're right:

a 4.5 watt cpu from five years ago will propably not even be enough to diplay 1080p video not even talking about editing it.

[MrConcrete04]

1 hour ago, Wurstwasser said:

Dear Linus Tech Tips Forum,

i am currently in the market for a new laptop, but i do not want to spend that much money, because i will not need it so often, so i went on ebay, 

and found an offer for a macbook 12inch 2016 for 300 euros.

It's the perfect formfactor for me (very thin and light),

but i am concerned about it's performance.

It only has an intel core m3 from late 2015 early 2016 (skylake),

and although i only want to draw with a drawingtablet, write texts, make some music with fl studio edit some 24fps 1080p videos and maybe play some half life cs 1.6 or minecraft,

i suspect the performance of the chip to be insufficient,

and i am not familiar with mac Os.

What do you think?

Does the chip hold up? Is it a good offer? Are there problems with mac Os i have to watch out for?

Thanks in advance

the 12 inch macbook was bad when it came out...

[KKLawrence]

So I myself bought once a 300€ Laptop - not a great Idea. It lasted a whole 8 months, I barely used it because it was barely usable. If you want a Laptop for light gaming, a little bit of video editing and music production, thats a tough nut for 300€

I would aim at a used gaming laptop for 500 to 600€

They usually have a GPU, which will gaming and video editing possible and also they have a good cpu, thats important for music production.

At that price point you can't expect beautiful slim laptops

[Vishera]

2 hours ago, KKLawrence said:

It lasted a whole 8 months,

Failed within the warranty period,

Did you use your warranty?

[KKLawrence]

No the time of usage was 8 months. Then I just upgraded and was actually productive for once haha

[Wurstwasser]

On 7/14/2021 at 11:14 AM, KKLawrence said:

So I myself bought once a 300€ Laptop - not a great Idea. It lasted a whole 8 months, I barely used it because it was barely usable. If you want a Laptop for light gaming, a little bit of video editing and music production, thats a tough nut for 300€

I would aim at a used gaming laptop for 500 to 600€

They usually have a GPU, which will gaming and video editing possible and also they have a good cpu, thats important for music production.

At that price point you can't expect beautiful slim 

Thanks for all your help!