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Shops appear after the verdict, ranked on stock, price and freshness. Commission is not a ranking input.

The generic "still worth buying" reading is the default engine run, labelled as generic. It is not a personal verdict.

September moves resale and refurbished prices. The structure of that shock is predictable even when this week’s chart is not yet long enough to index.

Missing battery health must lower confidence. A precise-looking result from a figure you did not give is a guess wearing a suit.

Keeping a working phone and replacing its battery is often the cheapest way to feel new again. Here is how TechWorth decides that without inventing a cost.

A repair that costs more than half a replacement stops being the lead path. That gate is our policy, and it is stored as a scoring weight, not a fact about the world.

An iPad is not a cheaper laptop unless the work you do actually fits. The catalogue lets you look at both; it will not pretend they are the same device.

The first Apple silicon MacBook Air is still a capable machine. Whether to keep it is a support and battery question, not a slogan.

Useful is "still getting updates and still does the work". It is not a round number of years we made up.

Vintage and obsolete are Apple’s words, with dated definitions. They are not a promise that a given model dies on a particular morning.

Android makers now publish years of OS and security updates. We store the promise, not a fabricated calendar date.

Refurbished is not automatically better value. It wins when an observed price buys enough remaining support, and loses when it does not.