Hi, I think this is an open thread, so I sneak in
.
I need to replace my MacBook Air | 16GB | 256GB disk | M1, I can't tolerate anymore such small disk for several reasons...
Gonna
sell it for 900 pounds.
I'll use the MAC for development (not iOS or macOS development for now), but I can tell you that most of the time will be used for light tasks, like writing documentations, LOL!!!
The idea is to get a single machine, not holding this MacBook Air and get a Mac Studio as a 2nd machine...
For development purposes, it would be even safer to have both (malware risks), or at least I can say to have 2 machines, the price and the annoying thing to have 2 machines doesn't make me happy.
So, here's the plan:
1. Buy a single 14" MacBook Pro (the one due in a couple of days, 2023 model)
2. Pay
3150 pounds for 2TB disk | 32GB RAM
3. Annual Apple Care +, 90 pounds * 7(years or more) = ~42 pounds monthly cost over that time, excluding eventual Apple Care claims
A couple of things come up here:
1. I always need the latest technology, I need to be comfortable and have performance, no discussions.
Initially this brought me to think that it was better to buy and resell when it was due, but honestly, it's a pain I don't want to go through again, plus these big machines are not easy to sell...
So I thought to accept the 42 pounds monthly cost over a period of 7-10y.
2. The battery could long or forever, in any case, it will degrade by age, not by my heavy usage, it will be mostly plugged in...
By experience, in 10y garbage batteries out there can retain 70% quite easily...
3. I've chosen 2TB disk, but in reality, I need to use 150 GB from the day one, plus other data archived on cloud, but I don't consider those, they will end up in a NAS anyway btw...
So, for real usage, I won't even use 1TB, maybe 600GB in production, but the 2TB will make this machine live for the next 10y with me, plus, the 2TB M2 usually have 2x TBW, around 1200, not bad... (400 pounds more
)
4. I'll use the laptop keyboard, not an external one, I'll try but I don't have much space for such thing, by experience keyboards last, but this one could cost me an **** to be replaced, luckily Apple Care would charge me 79 only...
5. Apple may not have spares after 7y, what happens if I have Apple Care??
Do they give me money back for the value of the laptop + Apple care paid for that year (their evaluation is always a joke, my MacBook Air was worth 300 instead of 900 for them...), or I remain f.....?
I think they can offer some cash bonus to be used on the purchase of a new Mac, but I can't tell by experience...
In general, I think that they will forbid me to renew my Apple Care if the laptop will be judged as obsolete after 7y, I just don't see it written anywhere in the conditions...
How do you see it?