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My current Macbook Pro cost me about £1100. No part of it is user serviceable so it's disposable. My first Apple laptop, a Titanium Powerbook was almost 3 time

My current Macbook Pro cost me about £1100. No part of it is user serviceable so it's disposable. My first Apple laptop, a Titanium Powerbook was almost 3 times that. Hard drive, keyboard, ram, battery were all user serviceable. My point was the company isn't what it once was, it's not a high end tech company for the few but a disposable tech company for the many.

coldtea 10y ago
>My current Macbook Pro cost me about £1100. No part of it is user serviceable so it's disposable. In that sense maybe, but not in the "low quality" sense (which disposable also implies, e.g. disposable razors etc). Besides modern cars are not "user serviceable" like 70s cars for the most part either, but they are not "disposable". >My first Apple laptop, a Titanium Powerbook was almost 3 times that. The overall price for the high end laptops on the market dropped since the Titanium powerbook though, and modern MBPrs are still priced at the high end segment of today's prices. You can't expect 1999 prices for a 2016 computer when the tech innovations make both low and high end products more affordable all the time. >My point was the company isn't what it once was, it's not a high end tech company for the few but a disposable tech company for the many. "High end tech company" does not necessitate "user serviceable". The tech in the Mac, compared to the average laptop, is way higher, and the engineering process to build a new MacBook Pro Retina model (from the machining to the logic board, batteries, etc) is far more advanced. Hence, high end of the market. Nor was the Mac ever "for the few" -- it was always intended as a mass market PC, for those with the money to spare, not just some tinkering propellerhead elite ("the computer for the rest of us"). Heck, they even sold cheaper models back in the day (the Mac Classic, the original iMac, etc).

coldtea 10y ago

>My current Macbook Pro cost me about £1100. No part of it is user serviceable so it's disposable. In that sense maybe, but not in the "low quality" sense (which disposable also implies, e.g. disposable razors etc). Besides modern cars are not "user serviceable" like 70s cars for the most part either, but they are not "disposable". >My first Apple laptop, a Titanium Powerbook was almost 3 times that. The overall price for the high end laptops on the market dropped since the Titanium powerbook though, and modern MBPrs are still priced at the high end segment of today's prices. You can't expect 1999 prices for a 2016 computer when the tech innovations make both low and high end products more affordable all the time. >My point was the company isn't what it once was, it's not a high end tech company for the few but a disposable tech company for the many. "High end tech company" does not necessitate "user serviceable". The tech in the Mac, compared to the average laptop, is way higher, and the engineering process to build a new MacBook Pro Retina model (from the machining to the logic board, batteries, etc) is far more advanced. Hence, high end of the market. Nor was the Mac ever "for the few" -- it was always intended as a mass market PC, for those with the money to spare, not just some tinkering propellerhead elite ("the computer for the rest of us"). Heck, they even sold cheaper models back in the day (the Mac Classic, the original iMac, etc).