[quote=temeculaguy][quote=paramount]I do like Apple for tablets and phones – I don’t see any reason though to buy a Mac desktop.
I buy off lease PC’s off of ebay for $100 bucks or so and install a decent video card.
However, Mac Laptops even a few years old still have value. Most PC laptops have already been e-recycled.
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I agree about Mac laptops. I have one kid who just finished college and one midway through. I bought the first one two pc laptops at about 500 each. Kid 2’s pc laptop ($500 costco hp) had a crappy hinge and had been repaired at a shop with bolts and some other repairs for $100. Now she cant move it or it craps out. I am typing this on a macbook air I bought used at DC computers (off lease, great shape) in 2013 for a 2012 model i7 for a bit under $1000. Still perfect, I never touch my Dell desktop that cost $700 about the same time. Mac is still as fast as when I got it and has a resale value on e-bay about $500. I know this because I’m thinking about buying kid #2 the same model. So if I had originally bought each kid a $1000 Mac laptop at the beginning of college, they would still have a viable laptop at the end of college with a value of 500. Instead I have a few $500 doorstops.
While its the exception to the rule, going cheap cost me in this area and I regret it.[/quote]My kid(s) had/have the MacBook Pro during college. Still going strong lo-o-o-ong after graduating! A PC laptop is okay for me because it is not my main computer and therefore gets only light use. The original battery in it lasted ~6 years before I had to replace it. However, it is a heavy, multimedia laptop that college kids wouldn’t want to carry around on their backs.
