[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by JSH

Possible reasons:

1. That is what they wanted
2. It is their money
3. A MacBook Pro has "status" in their friends group
4. Apple supports their laptops for 7-10 years
5. Future-proof: Who knows what the minimum spec will be in 7-10 years. It is cheaper to buy one expensive laptop or 3 cheap ones?
6. The cost per month over a 10 year life is pretty small.

Possible reasons:

1. That is what they wanted
2. It is their money
3. Their friends think dual cab trucks are cool
4. They need to transport more than 3 people at a time and do so when you aren't watching
5. They use this vehicle to do actual truck stuff on other says when you aren't watching
6. They decided against spending extra money to buy a commuter vehicle in addition to their giant vehicle and instead just spend more on gas each week.

Which is how most buyers look at vehicles considering they cost tens of thousands of dollars. Sure you could have a fleet of vehicles to do different things - or one vehicle that does most things OK.



That is one way to think about it. I like wagons and hatchbacks because they allow me to drive a smaller vehicle than would be needed if I had to have a sedan with a trunk big enough to carry fairly normal bulky loads. They also allow me to easily load long cargo like 2"x4" x 12' boards. If I didn't drive wagons and hatchbacks for the last 30 years I would need a sedan AND a truck or van. Hard to bring home twenty 2x4s with a sedan or a hot water heater with a sedan.



Not a bad way at all to look at purchasing an expensive depreciating asset.

I wasn't expecting an answer to some of those questions, but you did a great job of replying!

Let me put it this way with the MacBook: He paid $4,200 for a computer that he'll never use to it's full potential ever, unless he decides to get into video editing/rendering. He could have gotten practically the same Mac, but with still with plenty more than he'll ever use and without the fans for long workloads like video rendering for $2,100, exactly half the price. He'd get only 8 processor cores instead of 16 (but his work only requires one) and 10 GPU cores instead of 40 (he has no need for GPU cores) and get 24GB of RAM instead of 64GB (right now he'd do fine with 16 or even 8GB). I can pretty much guarantee that you could put both the MacBook Pro for $4,200 and the MacBook Air for $2,100 and 10 years later test them side by side with the same spread sheets he's using and they'd be exactly just as fast as each other.

With the hatch vs. pickup I chose the small trailer route. Maybe that wouldn't work for everyone, but seeing how I drive a lot without anything and when I do get something it a lot of times would not fit in the back of a wagon (sheets of drywall, refrigerators, plywood, other boards) a 1,000lb GVWR 4x8 trailer makes the most sense for my personal needs.

For an example, I've transported a couple of full sized upright pianos with my Avalon and trailer, one of them for one guy with a Toyota RAV4 who thought he could put the piano in his RAV4. Another for a pickup owner who had a hard time figuring out how to lift the piano up into his pickup bed.