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Maybe you can afford that, but many can't.
by gkya 10y ago
Maybe you can afford that, but many can't.
- csomar 10y agoI really dislike this argument. If you are not doing any serious work, then yes, Apple products are a luxury. If you are doing serious work, then you can afford Apple products easily. Let's say you spend $10k on your 2-year updated hardware. That comes at roughly $14/day. That's about how much I pay for coffee daily (cafes + Nespresso capsules) Edit: And that doesn't include the re-selling price. I do give my old hardware to my mother, so I take it out of equation.
- chaostheory 10y ago> Edit: And that doesn't include the re-selling price I second this. Just take a look at prices on Ebay for old metal Mac Pros.
- fleetingmoments 10y agoI'd really like to know what you do to make a 2 year Macbook Pro upgrade cycle worth the cash outlay. Performance updates have been really incremental between releases for the last while. I do some serious machine learning and DSP development (except for deep learning, but an upgrade is not going to help with that) on my early 2013 rMBP and I feel bad asking for an upgrade although I could probably get one, because there is really nothing wrong with my machine. Maybe when a 32GB version swings around...
- Johnny555 10y agoIt's only $14/day if you work 365 days a year. If you work a more typical 253 days/year, then it's $20/hour which could be half an hour of the developer's hourly rate. Does that $10K hardware save you 30 minutes/day over over what you'd see with $3000 worth of hardware (or keeping your $10000 hardware for another year)? For some, the answer is clearly yes, but for others, maybe not.