"I think the resale value for a student macbook doesn't really matter" It's literally the only thing that matters if you're the seller. If you have your choic

"I think the resale value for a student macbook doesn't really matter" It's literally the only thing that matters if you're the seller. If you have your choice of two items to sell 5 years from now, you ideally want to be selling the item that's worth substantially more to the buyer, rather than trying to sell something worthless. Assuming there's nothing dishonest happening, it's really up to the market to price. Thing is, the student buying the MacBook is probably going to be substantially better off that way too, in that it will likely retain proportionally more of it's value from that point too.