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Not a lot of people here uses a Mac either. Why spend 1500 euros on a Mac when you can buy a windows laptop for 500-700 that does everything the Mac does.

kube-system 3y ago
Because it offers a premium experience and NA buyers have a 50% higher disposable income than EU buyers.
pb7 3y ago
Why buy an Audi when a Volkswagen does the same thing for 50% of the cost?
crazygringo 3y ago
Because it tends to last for 2-3 times as long and still holds resale value when you finally choose to upgrade. Because of this, entry-level Macs are often actually cheaper in the long run -- and with the M chips they're faster too. And of course generally provide a much higher-quality experience, like trackpad quality, screen quality, etc.
- alberto180 3y ago
  Yeah until they die because the not changeable SSDs has reached their cycles. I see many old ThinkPads still humming in the university library, but not many old macs.
  - crazygringo 3y ago
    Extraordinarily few people reach the cycle limit of the SSD on their Mac. That's not something to worry about for probably 99.999% of people, so it's just a weird thing to bring up. And how do you know you're not seeing many old MacBooks? The MBA was launched over a decade and a half ago and it still looks almost identical to a casual observer.
    - alberto180 3y ago
      That's why there are so many reports about M1 Notebooks dying after 3/4 years out there. There are huge noticeable differences between a 10 year MBA and a recent one
      - crazygringo 3y ago
        Except there aren't reports of that. Just tried googling and couldn't find anything about SSD failure actually happening. What I did find was some fearmongering back in 2021 about whether it might become a thing, but it seems like it was entirely hypothetical and never actually happened. Also the M1 has only been around for a little over 3 years. They can't be dying after 4 years because they're not that old. Where are you getting all this misinformation from? And why are you motivated to be repeating it?
        alberto180 3y ago
        Then try again. Rossmann Made a video about it, here is another article talking about it https://www.sir-apfelot.de/en/ssd-failures-in-macbook-models-are-increasingly-ending-up-at-mac-repair-shop-49467/ https://www.sir-apfelot.de/en/ssd-failures-in-macbook-models...
      - danaris 3y ago
        You may be thinking of the bugs that were present in the very first generation of M1s, that caused them to erroneously display a wear level much higher than they were actually experiencing. And as long as you have the Silver color option, a MacBook Air from 2023 looks very much like a MacBook Air from 2014 if you're not stopping and looking closely at it. If you have one of the colored ones, those date back to 2018 with, again, a very similar design to today's.
- EdwardDiego 3y ago
  [citation needed] Lot of bold claims there about longevity. You also forgot "still holds resale value until they drop support for your model in macOS, and then software stops supporting the macOS version you're able to run" Ask me how I know!

kube-system 3y ago

Because it offers a premium experience and NA buyers have a 50% higher disposable income than EU buyers.

pb7 3y ago

Why buy an Audi when a Volkswagen does the same thing for 50% of the cost?

crazygringo 3y ago

Because it tends to last for 2-3 times as long and still holds resale value when you finally choose to upgrade. Because of this, entry-level Macs are often actually cheaper in the long run -- and with the M chips they're faster too. And of course generally provide a much higher-quality experience, like trackpad quality, screen quality, etc.

alberto180 3y ago
Yeah until they die because the not changeable SSDs has reached their cycles. I see many old ThinkPads still humming in the university library, but not many old macs.
- crazygringo 3y ago
  Extraordinarily few people reach the cycle limit of the SSD on their Mac. That's not something to worry about for probably 99.999% of people, so it's just a weird thing to bring up. And how do you know you're not seeing many old MacBooks? The MBA was launched over a decade and a half ago and it still looks almost identical to a casual observer.
  - alberto180 3y ago
    That's why there are so many reports about M1 Notebooks dying after 3/4 years out there. There are huge noticeable differences between a 10 year MBA and a recent one
    - crazygringo 3y ago
      Except there aren't reports of that. Just tried googling and couldn't find anything about SSD failure actually happening. What I did find was some fearmongering back in 2021 about whether it might become a thing, but it seems like it was entirely hypothetical and never actually happened. Also the M1 has only been around for a little over 3 years. They can't be dying after 4 years because they're not that old. Where are you getting all this misinformation from? And why are you motivated to be repeating it?
      - alberto180 3y ago
        Then try again. Rossmann Made a video about it, here is another article talking about it https://www.sir-apfelot.de/en/ssd-failures-in-macbook-models-are-increasingly-ending-up-at-mac-repair-shop-49467/ https://www.sir-apfelot.de/en/ssd-failures-in-macbook-models...
    - danaris 3y ago
      You may be thinking of the bugs that were present in the very first generation of M1s, that caused them to erroneously display a wear level much higher than they were actually experiencing. And as long as you have the Silver color option, a MacBook Air from 2023 looks very much like a MacBook Air from 2014 if you're not stopping and looking closely at it. If you have one of the colored ones, those date back to 2018 with, again, a very similar design to today's.
EdwardDiego 3y ago
[citation needed] Lot of bold claims there about longevity. You also forgot "still holds resale value until they drop support for your model in macOS, and then software stops supporting the macOS version you're able to run" Ask me how I know!