buy, rent or lease a Mac?

[Blackpuddin]

As a powerfully built director of my own (very) limited company I've always bought the Macs I use for business. As a result I have a growing pile of busted MacBooks in the corner of the study.
I see that Apple is now offering the option of renting or leasing an iMac. Given that all the machines I've bought invariably end up worthless with borked motherboards, the idea of leasing one, and then getting a new latest model after two years, has a certain appeal. But no doubt there is a catch.
What's PH thinking on the wisdom or otherwise of leasing a Mac?

[megaphone]

Surely if you break a leased Mac you'll still be liable for the cost of repair?

[GetCarter]

What the hell are you doing to them? I've used Macs for 31 years (for my job - every day use), and never had a mother board fail. They just get too slow to use the new software, so I buy a new fastest model every 6 ish years.

[Du1point8]

Only issue I have ever had on a mac is the connection between the logic board and the HD... last thing that went on my Mac was a Toshiba HD.

Nothing Apple related and have been using the from the early 2000s

[Blackpuddin]

Maybe I'm just unlucky? I am careful with equipment, but I do use it a lot.

[CooperS]

Not sure whats best but using my iMac every night my 2009mac is still running (albeit just)

I'd be taking those dead machines back to Apple