[rwaksmunski]

My Retina MacBook Pro lasted over a decade, that's 200$ a year plus $50 battery replacement and $8 speaker. It still runs fine. Macs are an absurd value/quality for money. If M series Macs run this well, no one else comes even close.

[seec]

I just replaced a quite cheap Windows laptop that was over 10 years old for an old person. It was just fine. The only reason it got replaced was because the battery was completely dead and being so old you couldn't find the part.

Not that it matters because it got replaced by a laptop costing 1/3 of the cheapest MBA. Mac users are delusional about the longevity of Apple stuff and have a distorted worldview where PC users change their hardware every 2 years or so. They don't and my experience is that it's completely the reverse (hence the massive 2nd hand market for Macs).