Not trying to convince anyone or to rationalize my own irrationality here but I'd rather have a working laptop to transfer from than a dead one, and with the fast increasing prices of components, the best time for a new laptop is either yesterday or after the AI bubble eventually pops and the market re-adjusts (I wouldn't bet the latter to take less than a couple years neither my current laptop to survive this long).

Buying second hand also means passing on Panther Lake, and LPDDR5, so a fast laptop is one thing, but with the goal of keeping it 8 years or so like the current one, efficiency is as important if not more. Efficiency figures are quite striking (and in the 60%): https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/framework-laptop-13-pro-review-much-better-battery-much-worse-price/