AI response
Recommended AI: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
🗺️ Information-Gap Map · "Whether to buy a new laptop"
What stalls a decision is often missing info. Here's what you don't know yet, spread out as a map.
🟥 Critical (fill first)
- What exactly is wrong with the current laptop — is "slow" heat, storage, or one specific app? → note the annoying moments for 3 days
- Your real budget ceiling → without a line, you'll compare forever → lock it to one number
🟨 Nice to have
- Whether you'd keep a new one for 3 years → changes the depreciation math
- Whether you've looked at used/refurb options → turns 2 choices into 4
🟩 Don't need to know now
- Rumored specs of next year's model → a waiting trap. Exclude from this decision
Biggest gap · Of the three bins, the red "what exactly is wrong" is empty. Until it's filled, whatever you buy repeats the same complaint. The rest resolves automatically once this one is answered.
Next step · For the next 3 days, jot one line each time the laptop annoys you. Deciding after that isn't too late.





