it is a measure of how well-built and reliable Apple Silicon laptops are that I have seen numerous working and broken Intel Macbooks of every year and version, up to the final 2020 models, and maybe ten (definitely less than fifteen) Apple Silicon computers in total.
Four years in and nobody is recycling them, and it's not because they're not popular. They just don't fuckin' break in general, and even a 2020 M1 Macbook Air is powerful enough to do anything the average computer user can throw at it, up to and including moderately heavy video editing. It's fuckin' wild
edit: maybe three of the computers are ones that have been in good enough condition to refurbish, and the rest have broken keyboards, broken screens (usually cracked by someone leaving something in it), or bad logic boards. most of them just have Activation Lock enabled, making them a brick/parts donor, even though in theory they work fine. people just don't get rid of working apple silicon laptops.
