[LockAndLol]

For your anecdote there are many others to the contrary. 2 colleagues with Macbook Pros had to hand them in after about 3 years.

A friend bought her Macbook in 2016 or so as a student and it went started having screen problems after a year... so she promptly bought a new one because repairing cost as much a new one. A loan was necessary for that too (poor student).

There was a shared Macbook Pro at work with a bad screen that also had a faulty RAM and it too was easier to simply replace than pay for repair. I was told there was some kind of support contract on it too.

A friend got a secondhand Macbook from 2012 that got slower over the years. Still had a CD/DVD drive and booting from it took about 2 minutes, more until actually accepted input. I resized the Mac partition and installed ubuntu 18.04 on the other partition and that booted more quickly + ran more fluidly with KDE. Her laptop wasn't supported by Apple anymore and she couldn't update the OS either.

I honestly don't see how Mac is easier to use, more reliable or even better supported. Imo, it's just habit, a flashy UI and the "exclusivity" price point. It's a status symbol more than anything. Giving that up is difficult for many, I assume.