> And of course, I recycled the laptop for a gift card at exactly the 4 year mark to buy an M1 Air - I could've sold it privately but it was defective so I had

> And of course, I recycled the laptop for a gift card at exactly the 4 year mark to buy an M1 Air - I could've sold it privately but it was defective so I had to accept Apple's valuation. Another spot where I lost money, probably more than the $300 will cover. I know Apple is moving to their own silicon, but out of curiosity last week I punched in my Mac Pro (cheesegrater) for a trade-in on the Studio. It was ... insulting. 12 core Xeon, 192GB memory, 8TB SSD, W5700X 16GB... I thought maybe a few thousand. Nope. $1,050. What's insulting about this? Apple is today selling this same config for $12,799.