Gotcha, thanks for the info. I had been never seen them written like that. It’s interesting.

What country are you from where the quotes are like that?

It is definitely a ploy since Total Tech Support bombed for them. But it gives you access to sale early and some exclusive sales. I helped someone buy a Mac Mini that was $50 off with a membership. She paid $50 for the membership and made it a wash with the price of the system. She then purchased a new monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer, and speaker sell all adding up to $260 in discounts.

I purchased a membership a while back and was able to buy my 15” MBA for $1250 months ago and my wife’s model (same, just with 256GB of storage) was $999. Those are pretty much their Black Friday prices now, but I was able to buy them months ago without fussing with things.

$200 a year was a hard sale for Total Tech Support. $50 a year is worth it and much easier to justify since it gives you the same discounts.

Sales on the 15” have been good. Spec for spec, it’s only $50-$100 more for the larger display. Nobody knows why stores like Best Buy have them so on sale. But take advance m advantage of it.

Put Linux or Windows on it. You could reformat by making a bootable OS X retaliation drive (or whatever the latest macOS that supports it) and reformat the whole thing. But 10-year-old hardware would run better with a Linux distro than it would Windows 10 or OS X/macOS.