And buy a PC/Windows box. I guess this is for people who envy the ability of Apple users to be charged 3 or 4 times what the machine is worth, but still want to run Windows.
Once again Apple fanboy moderators are upset. You can feel better by spending up to two or three times or more what Americans make in a month before taxes on your shiny Macs so you can better write documents and surf the web.
While this were true back in the Intel era for Apple, their M1 line starts sub-$1000. The price argument isn't valid anymore with this current generation. Yes, there are cheaper PCs if you're only specing RAM/Storage, but when you factor in compute, screen quality, keyboard/touchpad quality, and audio quality, a comparable PC laptop is actually more expensive now. It just comes down to if you care more about storage or multimedia depending on your workloads.
Three years ago I could already get a sub $1000 laptops with a 4k screen, 6 cores, M2 SSD, a free RAM and SSD slot, with probably twice as many total ports (2x display port, hdmi, multiple types of USB connectors, and lots of them), a better keyboard (but that's easy) and good audio quality (for a laptop that is, for all other purposes, total shit).
Apple doesn't somehow have some kind of monopoly on decent hardware. No doubt they also use the cheapest shit that will hold together just long enoug
In fact, Apple's reliability is quite good, based on real-world repair rates. https://www.prnewswire.com/new... [prnewswire.com] . Interesting, the newer MS-branded hardware (surface, etc.) is also highly reliable, with but the top manufacturers (Microsoft, Lenovo, Apple) are _way_ ahead of Samsung, HP, Dell, Asus, and Acer, which have double their failure rates or worse. In fact, Apple is notable for using more expensive, higher-quality components, making them more expensive to purchase but with lower repair rates and cost
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While this were true back in the Intel era for Apple, their M1 line starts sub-$1000. The price argument isn't valid anymore with this current generation. Yes, there are cheaper PCs if you're only specing RAM/Storage, but when you factor in compute, screen quality, keyboard/touchpad quality, and audio quality, a comparable PC laptop is actually more expensive now. It just comes down to if you care more about storage or multimedia depending on your workloads.
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Three years ago I could already get a sub $1000 laptops with a 4k screen, 6 cores, M2 SSD, a free RAM and SSD slot, with probably twice as many total ports (2x display port, hdmi, multiple types of USB connectors, and lots of them), a better keyboard (but that's easy) and good audio quality (for a laptop that is, for all other purposes, total shit).
Apple doesn't somehow have some kind of monopoly on decent hardware. No doubt they also use the cheapest shit that will hold together just long enoug
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In fact, Apple's reliability is quite good, based on real-world repair rates. https://www.prnewswire.com/new... [prnewswire.com] . Interesting, the newer MS-branded hardware (surface, etc.) is also highly reliable, with but the top manufacturers (Microsoft, Lenovo, Apple) are _way_ ahead of Samsung, HP, Dell, Asus, and Acer, which have double their failure rates or worse. In fact, Apple is notable for using more expensive, higher-quality components, making them more expensive to purchase but with lower repair rates and cost