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>how is the cooling and chassis build quality?
Honestly that's why I considered the M chip macbooks. In terms of thermals and energy efficiency they should be pretty great because it's essentially a mobile chip.
>Then there's gaming, which is a very normie thing these days, too
There's a fairly large chance the last game she played was Creatures 2. Gaming isn't a concern whatsoever.
Not that Creatures 2 doesn't have sovl, but it's been a while.
>double check reviews on how well the machine cools under load, and if the build quality is good or not (no hinges that break easily after a while, or motherboards that tend to fry themselves often, screens that die easily, etc.)
Yeah that's good advice, thanks anon.

I suspect she'd be happiest with a cheap used macbook, given that the materials and build quality are great on those. It pains me in my soul to recommend an apple product to someone, but in the end, it's for her not for me and apple stuff is hard to fuckup from my understanding.
Does macOS fill with trash the way windows does? If not, then that'd be a good thing.