I have not yet purchased a refurbished Macbook Air, but I was wondering if the deduction for trading in will be less than trading in a freshly bought used Macbook Air
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
Apple does not generally accept any trade ins of a current generation, so your idea of buying an M1 and trading it in 3 months later wouldn't work.
Additionally, a trade in will not give you what you'd expect. You would do much better selling it yourself. And, there is no way to predict how long it will last; the only safe thing to rely on is: you buy Applecare plus and you are covered for 3 years.
Apple does not generally accept any trade ins of a current generation, so your idea of buying an M1 and trading it in 3 months later wouldn't work.
Additionally, a trade in will not give you what you'd expect. You would do much better selling it yourself. And, there is no way to predict how long it will last; the only safe thing to rely on is: you buy Applecare plus and you are covered for 3 years.
Trade In works where an Older Apple Computer is Traded In against the Purchase of a Brand New Apple Computer. One can not Trading in an Older Apple Computer against the Purchase of a Refurbished Apple Computer.
would the same price be offered to me if the "Older Apple Computer" is bought from the official apple refurbished shop to trade-in for a brand new apple computer? (i.e. £999 Macbook air and £700 Macbook air from apple refurbished shop, would I get the same trade-in value?)
Only Apple could offer you answers for that. Go to Apple for UK homepage and attempt to purchase a Brand New Apple computer and during the initial process - thee would be an option to Trade In and there fill in the required Information and right before your eye - you will see what Pounds would be offered.
Basically, The newer generation Macbooks are coming out whether that is the Macbook Air or Macbook pro, and so far there are many leaks about the performance of the M1X/M2 chip that will be in them, and I would want to wait at least a month or two to buy it due to a new product may have issues. However the school begins on the 1st of September, so I need to get a laptop before that. With the current COVID scenario, I'm not sure whether there will be enough Macbooks for sale etc after the first 2 months that I'm waiting for, so I probably need a brand new M1 Macbook air to support me through the first 2-3 months of school and then get an M1X/M2 laptop when possible. I understand that the M1 Macbook is very powerful as of currently, but there are rumors about the next generation of laptops being at least 40% faster than M1, and I would like my laptop to last me quite a bit longer (5-6 years), so I just want to choose the right option. Thus the question, if there will be a difference for trade-in value for a refurbished Macbook or a new Macbook that is newly bought
However it requires an serial number which I don't have 2 spare Macbooks to test out the pricing
I suppose this will forever be a mystery...
Sorry - do not understand. Why bother finding out a possible price for something you do not own unless . . ?
I see! Huge thanks to both Babowa and P. Phillips!
FWIW, unless you are doing serious high end 3D graphics
design or high level video processing the current M1
MacBook Air will do just fine now and in the future.
Can I trade in for an new Macbook using an official apple refurbished macbook?
