News Apple Mac Users Can Now Purchase a 36-Month Upgrade Plan From Best Buy

[Admin]

Best Buy has created a new upgrade plan that allows users to upgrade their MacBooks every three years to a brand new version.

Apple Mac Users Can Now Purchase a 36-Month Upgrade Plan From Best Buy : Read more

 

[Giroro]

If you need to take out a loan to buy a new MacBook, then you can't afford a new MacBook. BestBuy's new rent-to-own financing scheme is just their basic loan with extra steps.
Which is fine. New MacBooks do very little that can't be done for half the cost on either an older MacBook, or a new PC. I would call MacBooks a fashion statement, but they've barely even changed the aesthetics in the last decade.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

While these kinds of programs sound like a scam or a very bad deal, given how much tech has been advancing from a 3 year standpoint, and depending on how much the final payment would be as compared to the value of a 3 year old laptop on the resale market after fees, it's not such a bad idea, and goes along with Apple's desire to turn their computing and mobile divisions into a subscription service which this basically is.

 

[shady28]

"You'll own nothing, and be happy about it."
-Klaus Schwab

 

[ezst036]

I see junk like this and I'm so thankful I switched to Linux.

My monthly bill will be $0. Thanks!

 

[crostini]

"You'll own nothing, and be happy about it."
-Klaus Schwab

Exactly.

Software as a service. Users are the carbon. Reduce emissions. You won’t own your Mac, and you’ll be happy about it.

 

[toadhammer]

Only scam is the fine print "0% APR - 39.99% APR". Beyond that, as someone who has to work on the full range of apple kit, it sounds pretty useful to be automatically upgrading some of our machines every 3 years.