latest macbook that has upgradeable ram is macbook pro mid 2012 (which is what i currently have).

IMO, currently, sure you have 16gb of ram. but your CPU is the bottle neck, what’s the use of having more than 8 - 12 gb of ram.

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however, having something used is likely going to have meh battery life too.

if you don’t want a refurbished macbook air (m model) why not go for an ipad and with apple keyboard. surely as a student you’d likely need it mostly for documents, web browser, etc.

i am a web developer

largely due to safari browser for testing. i bought an old macbook (used OLCP to get more recent macos versions)

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my current 2 cents.