{"id":31753,"date":"2021-03-01T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31753"},"modified":"2021-03-04T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T18:33:57","slug":"the-mac-price-crash-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/01\/the-mac-price-crash-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mac Price Crash of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-mac-price-crash-of-2021\/\">Robin Harris<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26286772\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/the-mac-price-crash-of-2021\/\"><p>The impressive performance and battery life gains of the new M1 MacBooks have created a historic discontinuity in the normally placid resale market. Should you spend $800 for a one year old MacBook Air when for $200 more you could get a MacBook Air with several times the performance and 50 percent better battery life?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I check Craigslist fairly regularly to keep track of what&rsquo;s for sale. I&rsquo;ve seen an unusual bifurcation in the pricing for MacBooks.<\/p>\n<p>There are more late-model Intel MacBooks showing up for sale. Some of those are showing context sensitive pricing, i.e. almost new MacBook Airs for $600 rather than the $800-$900 that some think their Intel-based machine is still worth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/27\/where-did-macs-resale-value-go\/\">Where Did Mac&rsquo;s Resale Value Go?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"the-mac-price-crash-of-2021-update-2021-03-02\">Update (2021-03-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2021\/03\/01\/the-m1-effect-on-mac-resale-prices\/\">Om Malik<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2021\/03\/01\/the-m1-effect-on-mac-resale-prices\/\"><p>After Apple loaned me a <a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2020\/11\/17\/m1-based-macbook-pro-13-inch-review\/\">13-inch M1 MacBook Pro for review<\/a>, it was clear: <a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2020\/11\/17\/why-m1-chip-by-apple-matters\/\">we were on the cusp of a significant shift in architecture<\/a>. Intel-powered Macs would feel puny in a few years. I needed to get rid of all my Intel machines as quickly as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I will be keeping mine for a long time for testing. They work just as well as they always have, and even 2013 MacBook Airs can run Big Sur, so my hope is that many Intel Macs will have long second lives after being resold. The transition will create good opportunities for anyone who doesn&rsquo;t need the latest or requires x86 support.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Harris (via Hacker News): The impressive performance and battery life gains of the new M1 MacBooks have created a historic discontinuity in the normally placid resale market. Should you spend $800 for a one year old MacBook Air when for $200 more you could get a MacBook Air with several times the performance and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-01T22:04:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"f0412cee-74a8-4804-845a-c8d6f67d7a8e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-04T18:34:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8EEs7nSoSASEWsjW9n16jg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2014,699,452,30,1173,1891,2040,509],"class_list":["post-31753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m1","tag-bargain","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-macbook-air","tag-macos-11-0","tag-resale","tag-shopping"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31777,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31753\/revisions\/31777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}