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I think the point is more that "is it worth buying this new m3 or should I buy a secondhand m2 for half the price?"

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more like "a hundred bucks less". The M1's go for maybe half... if you're lucky. Most are more.

Because there's a newer model, which is now true for the M2 ones too?

M1’s took a hit because multiple processors came out each gen. Remember: the M1 was superseded by both the Pro & the Max (and the unites but that’s not in a MacBook).

By the time the M2 came around ppl knew what was up. So you might be able to find a bog standard M1 that low (they do show up) due to this… but it’s rare.

I don't think you're going to find any M2s for half the price. They hold their value pretty solidly.

They won't if the M3 turns out to be a significant upgrade.

That’s honestly just not how Apple hardware resale value has ever worked. The new M3 hardware could double the performance of the previous generation and they would only drop in price by maybe a few hundred.

One big outlier; the recent Intel Macs have dropped far more in value than expected.

And that outlier is the last /significant/ difference in performance.

M1->M2 wasn't that big, generally seen as a small incremental improvement at best, and the last few Intel updates barely moved the needle between them.

I see ones like mine on eBay for more than 50% of what I paid for it, and it's four years old.

Or should I buy a brand new M2 Mac Mini for half the price of iMac M3 if I already own a monitor. Or a M2 Pro for the same price where iMac M3 doesn’t even have a counterpart.

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