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    Mac gurus

    My eldest daughter wants to buy a MacBook air and has 1k to spend, I know nothing about them so would like to know what would be the oldest year you would buy ?
    Obviously the ones she can afford won't be the latest or greatest.
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    Shout the kid 300 bucks buy a new one Mac gurus
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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor View Post
    Shout the kid 300 bucks buy a new one Mac gurus
    Aren't they a lot more than that like 2k plus ? Never looked at them before.
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    AFAIK they start at around $1300. Inc knows all things Mac.

    Mine was a demo 4 years ago for 2k, but it has things like a 500gb SSD, etc.

    In combination with an iPhone macs are awesome.

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    basic macbook air is $1499 now it seems...

    you can get discount for education and also refurbished as new with full warranty

    Refurbished Mac - MacBook Air - Apple (AU)

    $1349 now it seems for intel cpu

    and m1 for a few bucks more... which is what i would be getting...
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    The other thing worth factoring when buying a mac is longevity. My and my wifes iMacs both turned 11 this year and my macbook pro is 7. I bought the wife a 2020 Air.
    The iMac is just out of OS support but still does what I need it to do, and the macbook pro will be supported for another year or two.

    These will likely be my last Macs because I need the Intel compatible processors, but if I was buying a Mac exclusively to be a Mac then the new M1 would be where it's at.

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    I am not an apple fan boy. Only had an iPhone and ipad air but they lasted very well. Air is still going. So they seem good value if you don't mind the tech moving on as you hold onto them. I think their products are good although for general business use PC makes more sense to me. Having said that I have a mate, a computer tech, with a $5k mac book pro with custom covers and stuff where Windows 11 has bricked his machine for now...so perhaps if paying for an expensive machine stick with Windows 10 if running Windows. I has a Lenovo Yoga 930 get killed by Windows 11. Finally gone to the darkside and bought a Microsoft Surface Laptop 4. Hopefully the machine by the people who do the operating system will do the trick. Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozscott View Post
    I am not an apple fan boy. Only had an iPhone and ipad air but they lasted very well. Air is still going. So they seem good value if you don't mind the tech moving on as you hold onto them. I think their products are good although for general business use PC makes more sense to me. Having said that I have a mate, a computer tech, with a $5k mac book pro with custom covers and stuff where Windows 11 has bricked his machine for now...so perhaps if paying for an expensive machine stick with Windows 10 if running Windows. I has a Lenovo Yoga 930 get killed by Windows 11. Finally gone to the darkside and bought a Microsoft Surface Laptop 4. Hopefully the machine by the people who do the operating system will do the trick. Cheers
    Youngest daughter has a surface pro and it's been a pita, would never buy one again.
    Lenovo's have been good for school use.
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    Quote Originally Posted by loanrangie View Post
    Youngest daughter has a surface pro and it's been a pita, would never buy one again.
    Lenovo's have been good for school use.
    Too late now mate. Going to suck it and see. Thankfully I have 2 mates with the version 4 and they rate them (they also have Mac Book Pros and a bunch of other stuff) for business use. Anyway time will tell like most things. Cheers

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozscott View Post
    Too late now mate. Going to suck it and see. Thankfully I have 2 mates with the version 4 and they rate them (they also have Mac Book Pros and a bunch of other stuff) for business use. Anyway time will tell like most things. Cheers
    Hope you have better luck, we had a surface pro 6, both the keyboard and charger died just out of warranty, $200 for the keyboard and $85 for the charger. Touch screen started playing up shortly after so now she uses a logitech BT keyboard with touch screen function turned off.
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