I ended up spending about $55 to give an aging MBpro about 7 hours battery life again. Farrrrrr overpriced RAM & SSD fully derailed what would have been an easy sale. But even if we fully ignore the side with lots of competition competing for such parts (as opposed to our side of the fence where there is only ONE source of both parts- always a very bad scenario for consumers looking for value), step up the configurations from base specs and Silicon Macs get very expensive, very fast. Anyone with knowledge of what the equivalents of RAM and SSD cost in PCs know this very well. Apple has simply priced RAM and SSD far too high. Long story short: I ended up deciding to just replace the battery in the existing MBpro and ride it another year or two.
So the over-priced upgrades FROZE the purchase, sending me off on a tangent of looking at various configs of MBpro at various deal prices including what the same money could buy in refurbs. especially relative to MBpros with superior CPUs and many other benefits. I jumped right into the store the first minute and then configured it as I wanted it: more RAM and more SSD, equivalent to the MBpro it was intended to replace.
#APPLE MACBOOK PRO RETINA 2015 REFURBISHED MAC#
I was hyped for one of these day 1, ready to finally replace an Intel MBpro with worn-out battery, thinking I could do the lighter-to-modest stuff on this and save any heavy duty stuff for the Mac Studio back at home. Maybe the M5 version will be a better value?
Instead of just rolling over and paying up, this consumer decided to stretch what I already have. Hopefully, Apple will someday decide to find those "another quarter of record" profits in some other way, so that essential Mac parts stop seeming like such consumer robbery. Yes, that's far from "up to 20 hours" but I don't know many people who work 20 hours per day with no access to a socket anyway. Keep in mind that the 15-inch MacBook Air is frequently on sale at resellers, so be sure to keep track of our MacBook Air deals guide. The laptop is available in four color options: Midnight, Starlight, Space Gray, and Silver. The laptop has the same overall design and M2 chip as the 13-inch MacBook Air, but it features a larger display and two additional speakers. A variety of configurations are available to order.Īpple inspects, cleans, tests, and repackages all refurbished Macs to ensure they are fully functional and in good condition, and Apple's refurbished products are covered by a one-year limited warranty and eligible for AppleCare+ coverage.Īpple released the 15-inch MacBook Air at WWDC in June, with pricing starting at $1,299 in the U.S. Availability will likely expand to the U.S., Canada, and additional countries within the next few weeks.Īs usual for refurbished Macs, prices are discounted by approximately 15% compared to brand new models. So far, these countries include the U.K., Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Apple this week started selling certified refurbished 15-inch MacBook Air models through its online store in select European countries, as noted by on X, formerly known as Twitter.
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