I don’t think there are many other brands getting a real 10 years of use.
Define 'realistic' while excluding fanboying.
My T440 (2013) is running fine.
My desktop was first built on EPoX EP-MF4 Ultra-3 (~2007) and run Vista, was 'upgraded' to GA-Z77X (~2012) somewhere in 2016 and went out of use ~2019 when I was forced to relocate and use that T440 exclusively 'till 2021.
https://www.jamf.com/blog/debate-over-ibm-confirms-that-macs...
Says the guy citing "I literally got 10 years of use out of a 2011 MacBook pro" from himself.
> it’s well known
For a business user. Are a business user? Do you understand the needs of the business user? Do you have the same needs as the business user?
My answer on that for you would be a solid 'No' for all questions, because you are a home user.
> IBM confirms that Macs are $535 less expensive than PCs
LOL. You just searched the Internet and copypasted the first article which suited your anecdote? The thing you quote is the title and can't be found in the article.
Now let's actually read the article and bash you:
>> But isn’t it expensive, and doesn’t it overload IT? No. IBM found that not only do PCs drive twice the amount of support calls, they’re also three times more expensive. That’s right, depending on the model, IBM is saving anywhere from $273 - $543 per Mac compared to a PC, over a four-year lifespan. “And this reflects the best pricing we’ve ever gotten from Microsoft,” Previn said. Multiply that number by the 100,000+ Macs IBM expects to have deployed by the end of the year, and we’re talking some serious savings.
Because you are a home user with a ten years old MacBook, you don't understand what:
There is only a limited variations of Macs ever. Because mighty A just don't make many variants. There are thousands of variants of PCs even from IBM/Lenovo itself, not even including the top dogs like DELL and HP/E. Less SKUs => less variants to support, less cost to support and... less variants if you need something what Tim Apple doesn't allows you to do.
It's over 4 year lifespan. Nobody keeps enterprise client hardware for 10 years. There is no analysis from IBM how much it would cost them to keep Macs for ten years.
Nobody upgrades the client machines in the enterprise. You surely 'upped' your 2011 MacBook with more memory, SSD drive and whatever, right? Well, in the enterprise you just get a new machine 3 or 4 years later. That's how they work. 'Old' machine + two new machines are cheaper than a 10 year old PC? Lol.
Oh and it's from $273. For a small subset of machines they replace with Macs ie most likely the notebooks for the lowest bunch.
And finally and most importantly: it's ownership cost for the enterprise. YOUR cost of ownership is essentially zero (do you pay yourself for the support calls for your own MacBook?). You are a home user. You are not a business user and ownership cost is not applicable for you, you don't have a helpdesk, you don't manage a fleet of MacBooks, you don't have the whole departments which works on supporting the hard and software for internal business users.