Should I sell my MacBook Air? Thinking about it very seriously…
Yeah, should I sell it?
It’s sorta outlived its usefulness now that I got a keyboard going again for the iPad. I keep thinking about how I’m going to use it and I keep coming up empty.
I loaded all my favorite apps on there (a near-10GB install of Diablo III too), and I still have 75GB of space left. It’s running the golden master of Mountain Lion right now, pretty well I might add, and I’ve about done everything I can for that sucker. Still, it’s underused.
I got it partly because I didn’t have a laptop, and partly because I didn’t have a functioning keyboard anymore for the iPad (this was back when the Logitech thing tanked). But now that I have the Adonit Writer Plus keyboard again, I’m at a loss for any apps that my iPad can’t handle.
I think I can still sell it at a good price – it used to go for P59,990. (The new 2012 equivalent costs P52,990.)
A 2011 11″ 1.6 Core i5 MacBook Air with 4GB RAM and 128GB flash storage. I don’t know anymore now that there’s been an update to the Air, but surely it can’t have gone down by a lot. And it has three years of warranty, owing to my getting Applecare for it. All told, I paid around P60,000 for it, getting it at a low P49,900 and then around P10,000 for the discounted Applecare. Total value used to be P75,000. Maybe I can sell it at the price I got it all for, no loss. P60k, in a perfect world. Or realistically, P55k or P50k. Maybe. God knows I could use the extra money.
Hmm.
But, still, it would be nice to have a backup system. You really can’t ever tell if you’re going to need a laptop or not. What if my main system conks out and I have to send it in for repairs? Or maybe if I’m traveling, and I might need a system aside from my iPad.
Or maybe I can convert it to a new entry-level Retina MacBook Pro and have THAT as my reserve unused laptop. Should cost a little over P100k. Could probably get it for less from online sellers. Hmm…
Hmm indeed.
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