Hey guys.. got my mac diagnosed at machines.. seems need to change motherboard and touch id. I read through their diagnostics seems the cant really find the cause of the thunderbolt ports not working, so the solution is to change the whole logic board? Quoted me 3.3k which is about 50% of the mac... sigh.. what would you guys do? Its out of warranty repair. 3.3k i could buy m1 mba or some other windows laptop.

Ya i saw.. but sayang la this m2.. CTO 16gb ram 512gb ssd

i didnt get any because according to support i can only purchase AC+ within 60days of my purchase, then i argue that there is the "buy now" button visible, then support mention that is only for countries that has APPLE STORE, i dont know what to say after that, really regret didnt get the AC+ during check out time

is it still worth it to get the M2 in 2025?

would like to get my first macbook and my normal usage is just gonna be casual web browsing, videos, some simple photo editing, microsoft office. no fancy editing and gaming.

i thought of getting the M3 but its out of stock everywhere. not thinking of getting M4 since i think my usage don’t require such high specs?

my only concern is how long more will M2 be receiving updates..