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And you can see the effect on sales. The only reason to replace a laptop these days is if you spill some coffee on it.

Or you start getting into editing 8K+ images in Photoshop. That's not much fun on a Macbook 12" (I mean, it's doable but ... slow ... ly ... and ... clu ... nk ... ily.)

Computers haven't gotten much faster in the last half decade or so. This includes the MacBook 12".

GPUs and SSDs are a different subject...

It's that and Photoshop (understandbly) chewing RAM like an absolute demon - 8GB isn't really enough for Photoshopping large images with multiple layers. I would use my 24GB Windows 10 machine but ... that's even worse due to Windows 10.

What the hell are you doing with your windows?

I am doing nothing with it because it's clunky and slow and practically useless for anything except the occasional game.

Yes, some people have Windows 10 installations that run perfectly fastly and greatly and God's own nectar spews forth from their machine and feeds their family etc.

Which is nice for them but doesn't help -me- with -my- machine that runs like a dog with Windows 10 (but was perfectly fine with Windows 8.)

There are still reasons to replace a laptop before it breaks. For example, my 2012 Asus Zenbook has only 4 GB of RAM and cannot drive an external 4K display. Both are not urgent problems for me since I also have a desktop PC with plenty of RAM and a 4K display, but if I did not, I'd be looking into a replacement for the notebook around now.

And yet people keep buying iPhones in the tens of millions every year, so obviously there is something off with that logic.

Yup. I'm still happy with my 2013 15" MBP, and my wife just down-graded to a more portable 12" MB.

I keep reading that MacBooks have been selling well compared to the rest of the PC market, year after year.

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