I dunno. My 2012 MBP is still going strong. A new battery/keyboard module a couple of years back. It seems to me to be very much a durable item in a marketplace often crowded with junk. Best VFM of any laptop I’ve ever owned. By far.
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I keep my Apple laptops a long time, 3-5 years
Hey, cow orking is illegal in 48 states and frowned upon in the other two.
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might be $20 grand for all data matter
If you treat your laptop as a portable device and pair it with a dock in the places you use it the most, having all your power and connections sent over a single USB C cable makes grab and go a pleasant reality, and avoids a messy spray of cables when it’s placed onto a stand.
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This is the big advantage of USB-C, for sure. I will say it’s also very nice to be able to use the same power bricks for everything; one brick can charge my laptop, game console, phone (with fast charging), and any other USB device.
The trick to avoiding dongle hell is to replace the cables - a USB-C to micro cable is less than $5 and lets you connect any old micro USB device to a Mac or to the aforementioned power brick.
The only area where this doesn’t really work is USB flash sticks. We should all have stopped using these years ago - they are horribly insecure, and we’re all connected to a network all the time anyway. Alas, ad-hoc networked filesharing is still an unrealized dream, unless everyone is using Apple devices.
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