Earlier this year, I was travelling across Manali in the middle of winter. The temperature had fallen well below what my Windows laptop apparently considered acceptable working conditions. It was a smartphone manufacturer that had dabbled in laptops, and somewhere between the freezing weather and its rather questionable internals, the motherboard shorted itself. That was all it was, an expensive paperweight in my backpack. Fortunately, a friend let me borrow his MacBook Air M1 so I could get...
