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Almost bought a refurb neo then realized it is $100 more

edubfromktown

edubfromktown

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My wife's M1 Air 8 GB / 128 GB is still doing fine for her light (primarily web browsing and e-mail) use case.

I saw Neo's appeared on the Apple refurb site at $120 discount and was ready to grab a 512 GB w/fingerprint reader until I realized that they are more expensive now.

Not holding my breath for Apple to roll back to the old pricing when RAM and storage costs come down from the stratosphere.

Going to wait a while and maybe deal her my ProM3 14" down the road if the Air no longer cuts it running Monterrey.

I already offloaded her iPhone backup to an external backup drive (so that half the 128 GB of storage is not consumed by it!)
 
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Even at a hundred higher the build quality and surprisingly fast chip is better than the competition at that cost.
 
If I had no system, the Neo would likely be what I'd get for my wife as refurb Air's are overkill in terms of price and functionality for what is needed.

During inflationary times in general, I'd rather not purchase a new system and keep what's working fine for now. In this case, particularly since the refurb units were manufactured long before the RAM and SSD cost increases.
 
As you note, that refurbished Neo was built using stock produced prior to Apple's price spike announcement. Maybe as far back as a few months prior to increase. To spike that refurb's price to better reflect what they say they need to charge now for a new one is worse that mere chutzpah.

This doesn't even cover the argument that if - when they first came out - Apple already knew what the memory costs were and chose to initially do a loss leader on the Neo - attracting new customers before they applied the 'real' price, and making the lower-cost model near impossible to find in their stores. Borderline 'bait and switch'.

Good on you for holding out. I still pull out my 2017 Air (8/256) running Monterey for work, travel and cafe visits and it runs 95% of the apps (web, emails, office suite, photo / video / audio editing and playback, etc) I have on my M2 Mini (running Tahoe). In my mind - given the price spikes - both are now of far higher value than they were because they still do the work and haven't cost me anything additional.
 
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Whoa, I had not noticed the price jump.
When was this ?

Sure glad I picked both Indigo and Blush at the old EDU pricing!
 
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