*if replaced every year ... or a 900 usd computer if replaced every 3 years.
many
I don't see many old macs around, because they're harder and more expensive to repair.
> if replaced every year
that's a big if.
The assumption is that Pro market will drive general adoption.
It's a false premise.
Pro market, especially Apple Pro market, it's predictive of exactly nothing.
Just anecdata, but from walking through German trains, I disagree. I still see non-Retina MacBook Airs on some trays, for example, last sold in 2015.
Some Mac models are clearly more reliable and maintainable than others, see the butterfly keyboard fiasco. But I think companies should be judged by their better products, not the duds.
Hah. It is actually. Apple releases the MacBook Air... what does the PC market do in lock step? Try to copy it. We can thank Apple for insisting on SSDs in the laptop for all our PC laptops having them. When Apple moves industries follow. That won't be like that forever but it is currently.
Apple removed CD drives and Ethernet ports: everyone does.
Apple removes HDMI, many do.
Apple removes headphone jack from phones: everyone mocks, the follows.
I find that hard to believe. You're claiming plastic race-to-the-bottom laptop pc makers are building machines that last as long as all aluminium premium Macs? Fat chance.
Re the software issue, yeah, that's a pain. I do plan on putting Linux on it when I replace it with another Mac laptop, probably a M1. But that just furthers my point that Apple makes the best, longest lasting hardware.
But to each their own.
I'm not saying that, at all.
I am saying that people keep reasonably priced hardware for longer than Mac owners because they don't have money to waste and can actually repair and upgrade them for cheap.
