Holding as long as possible is a good play.

I like the YouTube channel Just Josh Tech for laptop reviews. They also have a price tracking website.

Something that’s perhaps hard to get used to with switching to a non-Apple piece of hardware is that Apple sales are not the same as Windows laptop sales. If you watch retailers like a hawk there are sometimes pretty incredible discounts.

In other words, lots of Windows laptop MSRPs are just completely not real prices and it makes them look really bad against MacBook hardware.

That said, with Apple’s stable pricing, alternative laptops being the “cheap alternative” to a Mac is pretty much over. Your next upgrade might just be a newer but still used MacBook when the newer hardware gets better Asahi support.