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That's like saying that people must afford an iphone 7 if he owns a calculator and an alarm clock. Laptops and smartphones are orders of magnitude cheaper.

creshal 10y ago
Used cars are cheaper than high-end Macbooks.
- Lio 10y ago
  The thing to do here would be compare used cars to used high-end MacBooks or used generic, low end PCs in general.
- Macha 10y ago
  Macbooks running costs come down to a small amount of electricity. No services, fuel, insurance, etc. Cars that cost less than macbooks also are going to need (relatively) expensive repairs or even replacements on a similar if not more frequent basis than the macbooks gets replaced.
- icebraining 10y ago
  Used car + gas + insurance + repairs is certainly not cheaper than an high-end Macbook + electricity to run it.
- acdha 10y ago
  Only the absolute worst ones, and you're ignoring the cost of repairs (significant on a junker), fuel and other consumables, insurance, in many cases parking and tolls, and in some cities you pay property tax or other non-trivial annual levies. In a large city just parking alone can be a MacBook every couple of months unless your employer subsidizes it.
- cerebellum42 10y ago
  Running a used car for a year costs much more than buying another Macbook.
- imagist 10y ago
  You're comparing the very best laptops on the market to the worst plausible used cars on the market without consideration for the cost of repairs that you're going to make on a car with minimum 80K miles on it. You're also not considering insurance, gas, etc.; the costs of running any car, even if you somehow luck into a used car for the price of a high end Macbook that isn't a lemon. And for the record, I don't know any millennials buying the high-end Macbooks, either. I've always bought the Air for myself, and even though my jobs typically buy me a Macbook Pro, it's not the $5K ones with all the bells and whistles, it's a $2000-ish one with a few minor upgrades from minimum.

creshal 10y ago

Used cars are cheaper than high-end Macbooks.

Lio 10y ago
The thing to do here would be compare used cars to used high-end MacBooks or used generic, low end PCs in general.
Macha 10y ago
Macbooks running costs come down to a small amount of electricity. No services, fuel, insurance, etc. Cars that cost less than macbooks also are going to need (relatively) expensive repairs or even replacements on a similar if not more frequent basis than the macbooks gets replaced.
icebraining 10y ago
Used car + gas + insurance + repairs is certainly not cheaper than an high-end Macbook + electricity to run it.
acdha 10y ago
Only the absolute worst ones, and you're ignoring the cost of repairs (significant on a junker), fuel and other consumables, insurance, in many cases parking and tolls, and in some cities you pay property tax or other non-trivial annual levies. In a large city just parking alone can be a MacBook every couple of months unless your employer subsidizes it.
cerebellum42 10y ago
Running a used car for a year costs much more than buying another Macbook.
imagist 10y ago
You're comparing the very best laptops on the market to the worst plausible used cars on the market without consideration for the cost of repairs that you're going to make on a car with minimum 80K miles on it. You're also not considering insurance, gas, etc.; the costs of running any car, even if you somehow luck into a used car for the price of a high end Macbook that isn't a lemon. And for the record, I don't know any millennials buying the high-end Macbooks, either. I've always bought the Air for myself, and even though my jobs typically buy me a Macbook Pro, it's not the $5K ones with all the bells and whistles, it's a $2000-ish one with a few minor upgrades from minimum.