My personal opinion about laptops is that nowadays you should notonky see it as something luxurious but rather like a house appliance. Almost everything you do everyday involves communicating through the internet, creating or editing digital files. It is more like for example a refrigerator or washing machine. One should see it as a necessary device. So when thinking about it that way maybe it wouldn't be so hard to stretch the money for a device you'll be using every single day.