wow. you upgrade your entire laptop like rabid gamers update their graphics card.
Have a question for you: How do you put up with having to move your data over and reinstalling everything every 6 months? Do you have any tricks to make the migration easy or do you just not have much data/photos/apps/etc?
I have my TimeCapsule to reinstall everything, plus all my folio, audio, photo & videos are stored on my 1T TimeCapsule.
What's the best strategy for buying new laptops and selling old ones? If you usually buy a new computer once every five years or so and then sell your old one. Say spend $3000 for a new one and sell the old one for $300. Would be better off buying a new one every year and selling the old one each year? In other words, would you get more for the old one that it would make up for the depreciation in waiting five years?
For my purposes, I'm talking about MacBook Pros probably.
I'm guessing that I wouldn't come out ahead, but what would the premium be per year to always have a (relatively) new laptop vs an old one most of the time.
To fully explain: which is better and why:
1: Buy new laptop for $3000ish and sell five-year old laptop for $300ish
2: Buy new laptop for $3000ish and sell it a year later for $???? Repeat every year or so. Would I be selling it for $1500? $2000? Less?
3: Buy new laptop for $3000ish and sell it 6 months later for $???? Repeat every 6 months or so. Would I be selling it for $2000? $3000? Less?
I've been doing this since the iBook Clamshell 300MHz
