> I believe used M1/M2 machines will be favored by young developers as their personal fun laptop in a few years

I doubt it. For one, the SSDs have limited lifespans, and are soldered on the mainboard. They'll be fine enough for the planned life of the laptop, but eventually secondary market laptops will start seeing waves of failures, at which point people learn that purchasing one is a gamble.

The entire Apple silicon lineup is designed for limited lifespan.

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netule an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Exactly, the entire appeal of Thinkpads is their ability to be repaired and upgraded by the end user. MacBooks are designed to be disposable.

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cromka an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Absolutely not.

SSD can be resoldered and that service is actually becoming popular and inexpensive. It's not just MacBooks, nearly all laptops have SSD and RAM soldered. This will become a totally normal thing in a few years from now.

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wtallis 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Soldered storage is extremely uncommon for laptops not from Apple. You pretty much only find it in very low-end Chromebook type hardware that's using eMMC for cost reasons, and a small fraction of more expensive Qualcomm-based laptops that use UFS for no good reason. All mainstream PC laptops use M.2 NVMe storage.

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nanliu 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's on chip for the m series and not soldered to the motherboard.

	▲	zuhsetaqi 41 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The RAM yes but not the SSD modules
	▲	testing22321 42 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The ram is on chip, the ssd is soldered to the motherboard. There are tons of YT vids showing people upgrading them.