OpenClaw demand in China is driving up the price of used MacBooks

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Jeremy Ji, chief strategy officer at ATRenew, told CNBC that the consumer electronics reseller is seeing more people trade-in their older MacBooks for a more powerful one.
The increased demand comes as people in China rush to try the new OpenClaw artificial intelligence agent.
Ji declined to share exact volume of MacBooks processed, but noted it was enough to warrant an increase in buyback prices.

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