Intel MBP market life?

[Zak Ray]

How well do you guys think intel machines will retain their value in the coming years? I assume some people will still want to buy them for awhile at least. I have a 16" with 32GB and pretty solid GPU/CPU.

I'd upgrade to an M1 now but I still use bootcamp occasionally, and would like to keep doing so for as long as I can.

 

[skaertus]

How well do you guys think intel machines will retain their value in the coming years? I assume some people will still want to buy them for awhile at least. I have a 16" with 32GB and pretty solid GPU/CPU.

I'd upgrade to an M1 now but I still use bootcamp occasionally, and would like to keep doing so for as long as I can.

It is hard to say at this point, but I suspect that they will keep their value. Right now, with Apple moving to ARM, it seems that few people want to buy an Intel Mac. However, in a few years, there may be a market for Intel-based machines, which will become rarer as time goes by. If Apple does not manage to have Windows running on Bootcamp on these new Macs, then the market may be significantly better.

 

[Zak Ray]

It is hard to say at this point, but I suspect that they will keep their value. Right now, with Apple moving to ARM, it seems that few people want to buy an Intel Mac. However, in a few years, there may be a market for Intel-based machines, which will become rarer as time goes by. If Apple does not manage to have Windows running on Bootcamp on these new Macs, then the market may be significantly better.

Makes sense, sort of like the market for the old Mac Pros after the trash can redesign, though obviously won't be quite that high a demand.

 

[skaertus]

Makes sense, sort of like the market for the old Mac Pros after the trash can redesign, though obviously won't be quite that high a demand.

If you have a high-end Windows laptop like the 16-inch MacBook Pro with 32 GB RAM, then it will probably retain value for longer.

 

[CoffeeMacBook]

With the recent Monterey OS update, they've drop support for anything later than a late 2015 Macbook Pro:
Engadget - Apple Monterey Support

6 years of support for anyone who purchased late 2014 Macbooks. So if we take that timeframe starting from the first Apple Silicon release, then we're talking maybe 5 years left of Intel Macbook Pro support.

When Apple made the transition from PowerPC to Intel Macs on January 2006 and ended PowerPC support on August 2009:
Wikipedia on Apple PowerPC to Intel Transition Time Frames

Apple released Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard" on August 28, 2009 as Intel-only, removing support for the PowerPC architecture. It is also the last Mac OS X version that supports PowerPC-based applications,[5] as Mac OS X v10.7 "Lion" dropped support for Rosetta.

So my rough guesstimate would be roughly 3-5 years of software support for Intel Macbooks, but I would err on the side of 3 years.

Ever since Apple made the announcement of Intel Macs to Apple Silicon Macs, I've already begun to offload all my Intel Macs. With tech, software support when nearing the end, is much like playing a game of hot potatoes; especially if you want to recoup some dollar value, you don't want to be left holding a brick. Unless of course, that brick is part of a collection of historical Macs for Apple devotees.