Confessions of a Chronic Computer...

College Life
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<p>…wow, sorry. I couldn’t keep up the alliteration*, sorry. Anyway, I have an issue with old stuff-especially electronics. As a result I sell most of my (minor) electronic equipment every few years and buy new stuff.</p>

<p>Here’s the deal. I’m going to buy a MacBook (White: 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM, 120GB) within the next few months that I plan to use casually for the next couple of years and then sell. How well would you reckon this model (assuming good condition) will sell in a couple of years. Will it fetch a pretty penny? Do Mac notebooks generally sell well used (I know it’s hard to predict how a computer will sell with many advancements every year, but I figured the teaming masses of Mac fans could help me out with this one)?</p>

<p>*(Did anyone else notice that this sub-board in particular is quite alliterated: College Confidential College Computers. Mere coincidence, I think not.)</p>

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<p>I’m not an expert, but i’m guessing the best you can hope to get back out of any notebook after a couple years is half what you paid, if you’re lucky. A MacBook would probably retain value as well as anything else: if you get the three year warranty that’ll definitely help your selling price two years down the road though.</p>