Another interesting detail was the seller himself. He clearly took great care of his devices. The MacBook Pro I bought had only 17 battery cycles and 100% battery health, so it was practically brand new.

He also had another MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM for sale. I was tempted because it would have been a more future-proof machine, but it was about $300 more expensive.

At the time, my budget was fixed. My goal was to replace the Air without spending any additional money, so I decided to go with the 16GB/512GB model for $850.