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My reasons for sticking with Intel
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This is exactly what I want to do! ... but I’m afraid I’ll have major buyers remorse when the redesigned, AS iMac is released soon 😥
Sure. The most important thing about making such a significant purchase is to know what you want and why you want it. Buyers remorse sucks if it turns out you didn't get that you wanted.
Why not wait and see what is released?
You will be able to pick up a 2020 iMac for less after the AS iMac is released than you can now.
Why would you want to give them away? I run my Apple products until they have no usuable life left. Still running a 2011 iMac without issues. Consumerism is killing the planet.
It’s a figure of speech.
(My oldest Mac in use is from 1996, my iTunes server is from 2010 and the laptop I’m using now is from 2013. The newest Mac I currently use is from 2017.)
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I had the luck of my work having a 2019 MBP 15' free in inventory. I got it. Sold my 2020 MBP 13' to Apple for $1630 (without charger) and used that + ~$200 to get an M1 MBP.
When I first bought my 2020 MBP 13' in October, the Apple trade in value for it was $1100. Immediately after October the M1 came out and it held. December, held. January, went to $1300. March - $1500. And saw $1630 recently. Figured I'd hop on this as with my work provided MBP, I didn't need x86 availability on my Mac.
Seems to me that Intel Macs are seeing a buying surge recently? As far as what they'll be worth down the road? After a day with the M1 - WOW. The fastest PC I've ever used. Absolutely no lag, instant everything - I've never had a smoother Mac OS experience - all while hearing no fans and feeling cold metal whenever I touch the laptop.
When I first bought my 2020 MBP 13' in October, the Apple trade in value for it was $1100. Immediately after October the M1 came out and it held. December, held. January, went to $1300. March - $1500. And saw $1630 recently. Figured I'd hop on this as with my work provided MBP, I didn't need x86 availability on my Mac.
Seems to me that Intel Macs are seeing a buying surge recently? As far as what they'll be worth down the road? After a day with the M1 - WOW. The fastest PC I've ever used. Absolutely no lag, instant everything - I've never had a smoother Mac OS experience - all while hearing no fans and feeling cold metal whenever I touch the laptop.
So much for the predictions of "not being able to give Intel Macs away" after M1 came out.
Maybe so in several years time (albeit obviously hyperbole), but clearly not now.
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What is interesting about this, is you can still buy 2020 Intel MBP 13" brand new from Apple for $1800. Did you have a high spec model?
Yeah, it was about $3k out the door last year. I traded in my 2017 MBP for it and sold a self built gaming desktop so I only paid $1k out of pocket for it.
I had the 2020 MBP 13' i7, 32gb ram, 2TB ssd. So that may have impacted my willingness to trade it in for $1630 towards the M1.
If you are referring to my prediction, I specifically stated “in three years”.
That said, I sold a 2020 13” 4-port 1TB/16GB in December, which took a long time and several price drops.
The only other time this has ever happened to me in 25 years of selling Macs is trying to get rid of a 2017 MacBook Pro after the minor keyboard bandaids were announced.
Looking around the for-sale sections on various forums I am seeing a lot of reasonably-priced recent Intel Macs not selling.