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Two complete power supplies for a MacBook Pro cost more than the ThinkPad my dad is running Creative Cloud and Visual Studio and whatever else on. With huge fi
by quink 10y ago
Two complete power supplies for a MacBook Pro cost more than the ThinkPad my dad is running Creative Cloud and Visual Studio and whatever else on.
With huge financial jump in the barrier of entry with these MacBook Pros, and with my Mac Mini no longer being supported with this release of mac OS why would I (and I suppose many others) still want to touch the Mac ecosystem with even a ten-foot pole?
I think Apple is purposely squeezing the line dry for what they can still wring out before they'll jump ship to what can only be called iOS "Pro".
- nicky0 10y agoMacs sure are pricy.
- eridius 10y agoI'm pretty sure ThinkPads cost more than $160.
- quink 10y agoA$266 for two complete power supplies. I just hopped on eBay and surprisingly lightly used T- or X-series ThinkPads i5 and some i7 for under that price, shipped. Sure, they hold no candle to the MacBook's display. But when you could buy literally ten ThinkPads for a MacBook with effectively the same non-screen specs there's a bit of a gap there. And I've had way more problems with Apple build quality over the years than ThinkPads.
- eridius 10y agoTwo power supplies is $160. The extension cable isn't necessary, and the USB-C cable is just a generic USB-C cable that you can get from anywhere (and in fact you don't even need to get one if you just keep your existing cable with your laptop) And you're also comparing brand new top-of-the-line Apple equipment with used computers.
- quink 10y agoAlright, I guess I can only buy six or eight lightly used Core i7, 256GB SSD, 8GB upgradeable RAM ThinkPads for the cost of a MacBook Pro instead of 10. And you're calling a laptop with a Core i5 with integrated graphics "top-of-the-line". I guess top-of-the-line is a distorted concept when the absolute top of the line for the company hasn't been touched in 3 years and that I could outclass by a factor of three in every way for a third of the price. My point isn't that you can't afford it, good on you. My point is that the barrier of entry for your BRIC or even EU consumer or developer is going to be unreasonable. And sure, they're going to get their USB-C cables elsewhere. But that guy in Rio is meant to be paying... $4100 for the cheapest device with an official mac OS touch bar for the time being.
- eridius 10y agoBarrier of entry? What the hell are you talking about? You're literally talking about the most expensive laptop Apple has and pretending it has anything at all to do with entry. That's preposterous.