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Hasn't this been (historically) how Apple laptop hardware revisions work? First gen of a refresh gets +200$ or so, with the bottom model missing some of the cha
by 542458 10y ago
Hasn't this been (historically) how Apple laptop hardware revisions work? First gen of a refresh gets +200$ or so, with the bottom model missing some of the changes (retina, ssd or i5/i7 chips, for example). Next year they'll apply the changes to the old bottom model and drop all prices by $100 or so, and then drop them again the year after that. Maybe I'm misremembering, but this seems to be what they've done before.
- zerohm 10y agoYeah, but we were a bit spoiled for the past 6 years where Apple was actually very competitive on price in the $1k - $1500 range. Apple was no longer behind in CPU / RAM generosity, and when other vendors tried to match them on build quality, they would fall short somewhere usually with a shitty track pad or battery life.
- monkmartinez 10y agoThis is a beautiful summation of what was expected. They may have been a -><- tiny bit behind on some aspects, but all in all they made up for it with the trackpad, magsafe, and other goodies.