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"I got a new computer made with worse materials and having worse specs and it was cheaper(when on sale). (insert quip about apple tax)". I've personally seen
by sanswork 10y ago
"I got a new computer made with worse materials and having worse specs and it was cheaper(when on sale). (insert quip about apple tax)".
I've personally seen this exact same form of post in various places for almost a decade now. There isn't an Apple tax though. Once you look at actually comparable hardware from the other manufactures you end up with similar prices.
- SwellJoe 10y agoAn XPS is a more fair comparison, sure, but even an XPS can be had for 2/3 the price of a comparable MacBook Pro. And, sure, it's an argument that's been made for years...because it's mostly been true for years that Apple products are expensive, even when compared to similarly spec'ed and similarly high build quality devices.
- sanswork 10y agoI've never seen an actual fair comparison in all that time though. People always skip the cost of/quality of the screen when comparing laptops, or the trackpad, or the battery life. They almost always look at cpu, gpu, memory, hdd/sdd size as if that tells the whole story.