I have a computer (several, in fact) still. I'm just saying that people on Lemmy seem to have no issues with people spending over 2k building themselves a premium desktop PC they use a few times a week, but balk at someone spending over $500 on the device they carry with them all the time.

And unless you're gaming or using specific PC applications, a phone with an external desktop interface (like a Samsung) hooked up to a monitor with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard does 99.9% of what you need.

I can browse the web, write emails, use Office, and more just as well with my phone and a monitor as with my laptop o lr desktop computers.

I can't use photoshop, blender, ArcGIS, etc so I still need computers, but for everything else the phone is great.