When it lasts 5 to 10 years. I’m still using my 2020 MacBook Pro, and figure I’ll get another half decade out of it. That’s <$200/year. The Neo could be a <$100/year laptop, which puts it in the same class as $200 shitbooks that crap out after two or three years.

Would you be surprised if I told you that $600 is slightly under 11 days of the average rent [0]?

0 - https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/

Is that more rents are insane though, british perspective but 600 ~ £450, £450 is still around a third of an average rent, but I'd consider a budget laptop those in the £2-350 range. For the average user £400+ (so $500+) is decidely midrange purely on the virtue that its the middle of the range for general use laptops (being £150-1000 really, anything more than that and you're entering decent gaming/workstation specs).

Not to mention that it they are, naturally, going to convert $600 to £600.

Are you comparing 11 days of utility vs 5+ years worth?

I am comparing two things which cost the same. In a discussion about pricing.

If your point was that it's crazy that 11 days of rent costs the same as a mid-range laptop, I completely agree. That's where we're at though.

I tell anyone spending less than that not to waste their money, and to get refurb instead.

It's $370 in 2006 dollars.

For existing Mac owners.

anyone can buy it for $500 using the education store

Recently after another round of 30-40% inflation.