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Alright, another person to ignore…

No point in arguing with someone who just comes up with a bunch of strawman scenarios to “win”.

Please tell me about some situations where 120hz via HDMI would be useful to you. The HDMI is good for on-the-go when you need to share your screen at a meeting or whatever, good luck finding any place that has a 4K 120Hz screen laying around for you to plug into. Anyone who genuinely wants 4K 120Hz for their own use at home would buy TB4 dock. Why the heck would i want to plug in a fat hdmi cable and a bunch of peripheral cables into my laptop when I can use a single thunderbolt cable.



If you need fast wifi, then get fast internet. Having wifi6e isn't going to make your shitty 50mbps get any better. If you already have fast internet, or gigabit, shit isn't going to make a difference. ,You will not see the difference in day-to-day use if you're already over 500mbps.

And homie, if you're working from a server, any network call you make is done on that server's network - your own wifi has no influence on that server's performance.

Why do you care for extra channels? Go download some wifi analyzer app, I can guarantee that you will see unused 5g channels that are ripe for you to use.
Not to mention, you need a router that supports wifi 6E - and there aren't that many available, let alone many devices that suppose wifi 6e.

Costco was 1874.75, and I think included 2 years warranty, but I may be mistaken. (I missed that sale)
BB and Amazon had it on sale on Boxing week for 2199.99, which was $300 off.
Apple offered a $350 gift card when purchased at regular price during Black Friday or $210 GC (I think) when purchased on educational pricing during back to school.

So Costco was the ATL, but I think that was an error which they honoured as Apple would rarely discount a device that much, especially at just one retailer.

I’m surprised the retailers haven’t discounted the M1 model yet. I guess they feel the $100 discount over the M2 is enough, even though that was the regular price for that unit.

I noticed that they changed the "discount" amount on the base 14"
It now says $2187 (save $258) - $1929

If you go to the Iphone Apple store App and search refurbished 14"
It says $2374 (save $445) - $1929

Nothing different on the bottom line, but interesting.

Interested to see what other retailers like Best Buy will do with their inventory of new sealed M1 Pros, if we might see significant discounts there?

New to the MacBook space don't know historically what happens in these cases.

I have this one (14, M1 Pro), my gf have the air m2.

While I like my better hdr screen and better sound her computer is so much lighter and quite smaller.

Yes on paper it doesn’t sound much, but it does make a difference.
So if you are doing light to mid stuff, including light photoshop, office, 20 chrome tab, and only once in a while video editing, the air is more than enough, and for probably like 8 years.

I just sold my air 2013, and it was still fine, and got 300$ for it.

Apple says they replace the casing for every refurbished product so that it's new but that's a lie. I received one with a huge scratch on the back and escalated to the executives but they would not admit that they sold a product without replacing the cover. The best they would do is for me is for me to return it.

I got a 16 inch M1 a while back and while I ended up returning it for other reasons, the chassis had obvious scuffs and scratches while the battery had under 10 cycles. They mention on the refurb site that they do not consider minor cosmetic damage a factor when assessing the unit.

that is IF you get paybright to work lol, they have awful customer service and bugs that do not allow you to actually use their service

Rumors of OLED MBP coming out.... but at that point why settle for an OLED screen when MicroLED is targeted for 2024/2025? OLED doesn't get nearly as bright enough and runs the risk of burn-in.

I've had burn-in on my OnePlus phone, Samsung S21U, and would expect to have the same issues for any OLED mobile device with some sort of notification bar.

Apple refurbished Mac are indistinguishable from new. The base 14" is $540 (after tax) cheaper than the new base model M2 Pro. You will never reclaim that $540 difference in resale let alone notice the performance difference day to day. The only people it's worth it to are one's who need that FOMO psychological relief that they have the newest; if that's worth half a grand to them then by all means.

Are you sure? I thought that only applied to refurbished iPhones, not Macbooks.

I was under the impression MacBook returbs don't get the same treatment as the iPhones (new case, new battery).