macbook pro, at least 24 GB RAM

desktop.

Go laptop

very bad timing - price skyrocketed - get miniPC if already have monitor

MacBook Air

either something compact portable like this or full big desktop - u can run anything games/music/nostr https://image.nostr.build/038c1f42d2927eb70e7a8b9c34c8a54d412d0454664cba48a76f5aafc0906771.png

Yes

laptop that you can also create a hybrid desktop setup with if you want. I love my Lenovo. It's my second Lenovo machine, rocking a P14s

If you are like everyone else you get MacBook Air. If you want to do more open source stuff, you get whatever good laptop (e.g. new Dell XPS 14 or Lenovo...) and install Linux on it. Linux got very good in the last couple years. Out of the box solid experience, I prefer it to MacOS.

#Omarchy on Thinkpad https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8n7zguynmcvwtqfdl6fdcfldarx363a6k7xkgqk79nu6gj30hy0smw9q6a

It's best to know your use case and budget before buying anything not just computers. Internet browsing or 3D modelling software. Want to spend less than a grand or is 4-5K with budget.

MacBook Pro

What do you want to do with it, Roya? For general web/office/ entertainment use, consider eBaying an ex-business "enterprise" laptop, like a Lenovo Thinkpad. All consumer brands are disposable junk these days, but the enterprise-grade second-hand Thinkpad I bought my 12 y o son is fast and seeming...

Desktop gives you roots. Laptop gives you mobility. I’m team laptop but I’d love if I weren’t 💖

I have 5 bicycles. One for each occasion. Probably the same for your shoe collection. Computers are the same way.

Get an old Lenovo x1 Debian minimal install. Don't auto launch x. Compile dwm. Add dmenu. Just keep adding one thing at a time as you need it. Bubblewrap your apps. .... Thank me later I hear good things about Omarchy and OpenMandriva too

It depends on the use case…