It makes perfect sense for businessesyou can forget about buying, maintaining, and selling individual computers.
But what about individual people?
Don’t we want the same opportunity to get regular upgrades?
Apple
“Perhaps the MacBook upgrade program will end up being equally popular.”
Why Buy?
For businesses, this evens out the investment over the year.
CIT
For individuals, it might be the difference between getting a Mac or not.
CIT
“For consumers, those performance improvements will likely be noticed every three to four years.
Paying $30/month for three years exceeds the actual price of the MacBook,” says Khella.
Apple
Even then, do we want a new Mac every three years?
But Macs, like iPads, progress far more slowly.
And then there’s resale.
… when it comes to Apple products, consumers are driven by desire rather than actual need.
The point is, a three- or even five-year-old Mac is still a capable machine for most people.
I have a friend who used their 2012 MacBook Air as their primary computer up until this year.
With any bang out of lease or replacement program, it all comes down to the small print.
For those folks desperate to rent a MacBook, there are alternatives.
For instance,Grover, a gadget-leasing company,lets you rent tech instead of buying.
It winds up being cheaperand environmentally betterthan forever chasing the newest thing.
