Marginally better battery, GPU and screen brightness with a thicker form factor and more weight than the air. If they are in decent condition it's a good price.
There's absolutely nothing "Pro" about the 13" MacBook Pro. It's an extremely old design that Apple kept around because it was cheap for them to make.
That aside, Mac hardware with Apple silicon is great. The problem is software support. You can expect about 3 1/2 years of remaining support for the 2020 M1 laptops. After that, you won't have any macOS security updates; or you can hope that Asahi Linux is a viable option at that point.
I also think the 8GB/256GB config in 2024 is questionable, but I don't want to continue that flame war.
Scratch n' dent -- which for Amazon, that's saying something. Their refurbished is "did it power on briefly?" + "wipe it down with a rag". So if it's considered S&D, it might've been run over by a supermassive stone quarry dump truck after being launched into space by that Elon Musk fella.
What I'm saying is, expect something absolutely beat up.
No warranty mentioned, no charger mentioned.
I mean, you can always roll the dice -- but I'd suggest putting that $550 aside for a newer, cleaner, less beat up machine. You'd probably get a better value nearly anywhere else.
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Not a bad deal if these are in good shape. Better deal than the last few air deals I've seen.
I think the M1 MacBook Air last week was a far better deal. It was $526, but it was for a 512GB SKU. The people in the comments doubted that fact because the model numbers didn't match, but sure enough, it arrived as a 512GB M1 Air with 19 cycles on the battery and just a tiny nick in the rear of the chassis.
It came with a generic 60-watt charger and cable -- not the OEM version. But nobody give a snot about that.
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That aside, Mac hardware with Apple silicon is great. The problem is software support. You can expect about 3 1/2 years of remaining support for the 2020 M1 laptops. After that, you won't have any macOS security updates; or you can hope that Asahi Linux is a viable option at that point.
I also think the 8GB/256GB config in 2024 is questionable, but I don't want to continue that flame war.
Scratch n' dent -- which for Amazon, that's saying something. Their refurbished is "did it power on briefly?" + "wipe it down with a rag". So if it's considered S&D, it might've been run over by a supermassive stone quarry dump truck after being launched into space by that Elon Musk fella.
What I'm saying is, expect something absolutely beat up.
No warranty mentioned, no charger mentioned.
I mean, you can always roll the dice -- but I'd suggest putting that $550 aside for a newer, cleaner, less beat up machine. You'd probably get a better value nearly anywhere else.
Not a bad deal if these are in good shape. Better deal than the last few air deals I've seen.
I think the M1 MacBook Air last week was a far better deal. It was $526, but it was for a 512GB SKU. The people in the comments doubted that fact because the model numbers didn't match, but sure enough, it arrived as a 512GB M1 Air with 19 cycles on the battery and just a tiny nick in the rear of the chassis.
It came with a generic 60-watt charger and cable -- not the OEM version. But nobody give a snot about that.