Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers

Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by wlesieutre on Sunday August 07, 2016 @03:57PM (#12243378)

2011 Air here. Audio hardware is all dead (speakers + mic + headphone jack), but it works for development.

If I can only expect to get 3 years of use from a laptop, that's pretty disappointing. Especially one that starts at $1300. Or $1550 if you want the warranty to actually cover it for that period.

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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by PeterisP on Monday August 08, 2016 @12:00PM (#12248758)

So it's $43 / month or $10 / week. Is that really a big number for a primary work tool?

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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by ksk on Monday August 08, 2016 @01:08PM (#12249256)

Yes, that is completely unreasonable. I expect hardware to last atleast 10 years. Nobody wants to be on some kind of constant upgrade treadmill. Not to mention the enormous environmental impact of un-repairable computers that you have to trash every X years.

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Re:Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers by wlesieutre on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:20AM (#12254266)

If it were the only computer in existence, probably not. But it gets measured relative to all of its competitors, which get updated more than every two years and have their prices go down when they're old.

Also it's not my primary work tool. If your company wants to buy you one, great, but spending my personal hobby budget on outdated gear is a harder sell.

And yes, $43/month over 3 years is a lot of money. $1550, in fact. Breaking it down like that to make it feel like a smaller number is a shitty trick that only works because we have bad instincts at math.

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