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I bought an m series device to replace my windows desktop mostly for efficiency reasons. It saves me hundreds a year in electricity costs at the moment (quite literally, I calculated it beforehand and checked real usage afterwards). It also means my office is now silent and cool. It’s a big QoL improvement for me.

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Was cost of the device also taken into consideration in your overall cost calculation? What was the cost of your Windows desktop and what was the cost of your M series device you replaced it with?

Have you ever upgraded any components of your Windows desktop (RAM, GPU, CPU, motherboard) or did you discard the entire thing?

Realistically, assume you were going to upgrade anyway.

$1200 PC vs $1500-$2000 MacBook is really only 300-800 difference, and MacBooks hold their value on the second hand market EXPONENTIALLY better than windows.

So 3-8 years at 100$ a year, but also it’s worth 3x as much as the comparable PC in 5 years

> Realistically, assume you were going to upgrade anyway.

Realistically, you don't need to replace the entire thing. Replace mobo+CPU, GPU, PSU, RAM, case as necessary.

Laptop is a different story. Replacing a desktop with a laptop and then comparing them is not a fair comparison.

Similar story here. I replaced an AMD 3xxx series Hackintosh workstation with an M1 Air after running both together and finding they were exactly as fast as each other.

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