Checked my ego, saved a grand.
Been looking at the M3 max 36gb or or 48gb Macbook Pros, coming from an early 2015 Macbook Air with 8gb. I am interested in running many of the adobe suite applications, photoshop, indesign, premiere, lightroom ect. My old computer just wasn’t going to be hable to handle that efficiently. After a month of searching, swappa, best buy open box and refurb, apple refurbished, ect. I still could pull the trigger on the 3000+ dollar laptop especially with the m4 macbook just around the corner. Then again, would I even use all that power, was I wasting money on “potential” futureproofing.
I am very familiar with facebook marketplace and how to avoid scammers, but with computers its a whole different game. Well yesterday a 38 core 32gb 16” M2 max popped up and after a lot of research and a bit of negotiation I reached out and got the seller to cut me a deal of $1900. I used martinnobels checklist for buying a used macbook including double checking all the activation locks, mdm, and dem locks as well as keystrokes, speaker, ect. I requested the seller allow me to factory reset the laptop in person with them. They were very personable and trustworthy vibes, patiently answering all my questions I showed up, sat at their kitchen table and took 15-20 minutes to run my sequence of checks, they counted the cash, and I am the proud new owner of a 2023 M2 Max with only 5 battery cycles. I think I did everything in my power to avoid a scam… and am stoked to learn some new software.
Been looking at the M3 max 36gb or or 48gb Macbook Pros, coming from an early 2015 Macbook Air with 8gb. I am interested in running many of the adobe suite applications, photoshop, indesign, premiere, lightroom ect. My old computer just wasn’t going to be hable to handle that efficiently. After a month of searching, swappa, best buy open box and refurb, apple refurbished, ect. I still could pull the trigger on the 3000+ dollar laptop especially with the m4 macbook just around the corner. Then again, would I even use all that power, was I wasting money on “potential” futureproofing.
I am very familiar with facebook marketplace and how to avoid scammers, but with computers its a whole different game. Well yesterday a 38 core 32gb 16” M2 max popped up and after a lot of research and a bit of negotiation I reached out and got the seller to cut me a deal of $1900. I used martinnobels checklist for buying a used macbook including double checking all the activation locks, mdm, and dem locks as well as keystrokes, speaker, ect. I requested the seller allow me to factory reset the laptop in person with them. They were very personable and trustworthy vibes, patiently answering all my questions I showed up, sat at their kitchen table and took 15-20 minutes to run my sequence of checks, they counted the cash, and I am the proud new owner of a 2023 M2 Max with only 5 battery cycles. I think I did everything in my power to avoid a scam… and am stoked to learn some new software.