Help me buy a laptop

Hey,

My name is Zahid and I work as a graphic designer. Currently I’m using a laptop which is about 7 years old, which basically means about 838 years old in human years. Due to Covid, the past year and a half have been pretty rough as I’ve been jobless and I’m sure many can relate. However, my laptop has been my only source of survival to make some buck here and there with freelance work. But, At this point, my laptop is at the verge of dying & here’s why:

1. Old outdated i5 cpu

2. Old 8gb RAM and dead slow

3. The screen for some reason shows inaccurate colors now and that’s a nightmare.

4. Screen also has burn marks now (bad quality screens tend to have these)

5. Applications like InDesign and Illustrator keep crashing as they have been updated for newer machines.

6. Worst of all - the laptop turns off due to heating up, even though the fans are running at high speeds. (Yes ive tried different methods to keep the cpu cool using intel’s software but it’s useless. And ive also applied new thermal paste.)

I can go on and on but I guess you get the point. I don’t want to exaggerate in anyway trying to convince anyone but this is what it is and I am desperately in need of a workstation that is future-proof.

My plan is to get a Macbook Air (M1) 16gb, perhaps a used one - which is about $1000. With estimated tax and shipping, it will probably be around $1100 but that’s (tax) something I can cover.

My birthday is on Christmas eve - i would be ever-so-grateful if this works out as my b’day and Christmas present, instead of a bunch of stuff that I would’nt need.

I’m hoping everyone will come together and help me get this laptop :)

Thanks for all the support!