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M2, no, virtually none. The earliest M1s are three years old now, so may be up for replacement under some corporate refresh policies. A lot of corporates still _kind_ of live in the past, hearkening back to a time when a three year old laptop was largely unusable (and might well be _physically_ falling apart; general manufacture quality of this sort of thing has improved a lot in the last 20 years).

In the late noughties I worked for a smallish company where engineers got MBPs and everyone else got mid-range PC business laptops (I think Dell or someone?) The failure rate on the PC laptops was just astonishing; they were practically disposable. The failure rate of the MBPs was higher than you'd see today, though not as bad. Replacing machines in under 3 years was the norm because many of them didn't _work_ after 3 years.

parent rsynnott 3 years ago

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