I need a laptop for school that lasts 8 h easily. And since windows laptops don’t do the trick i thought about a used macbook. Buyin an old one, maxing out RAM and SSD and be ready to go. Whats years of macbooks should i look out for? I want to do as cheap as possible. Its just used for google docs and for its battery life.
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.
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.