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There is a more to laptop than just raw numbers of RAM, SSD and CPU. Paying six-digits for the car that has same number of wheels as Tata — outrageous.

by rimliu 7y ago

mikece 7y ago
The inability to augment the MacBook Pro is a bigger pain. With my 3 year old Lenovo P50 I can swap BOTH NVMe slots, upgrade the RAM, etc. With the MacBook Pro I can only buy USB-C cables and adapters. Your point about six-figure cars is a good one. I can either spend $90k to $120k on a car to drive to work that's super quiet on the inside, or spend $12k on a used Accord and another $400 on the top-flight Bose noise-cancelling headphones and achieve the same level of quiet on my commute. The way Apple builds their hardware you can't modify it to improve how it works for you; the only option is to take it or leave it.
- danaris 7y ago
  You can use the same Bose headphones with your MacBook, y'know, and they aren't any more a modification of the MacBook than they are of the Accord. You can also plug in external Thunderbolt SSDs that are effectively indistinguishable from an internal in terms of speed. Your analogy kinda falls apart there. But if upgradeability and replaceable parts are your #1 concern, then...yeah, you're not in the target market for a Mac laptop. So that means that it's unlikely you'd ever have been looking at having a Mac be your primary machine in the first place—if you needed one to do development on, it would be a secondary machine, where you'd probably set up your dev environment, check out the code, compile it, and test it, then go back to the computer you actually enjoy using for the rest. Maybe look into a Mac Mini?
  - jtuente 7y ago
    You can use the same (oil) with your (Bugatti), y'know, and they aren't any more a modification of the (Bugatti) than they are of the Accord. You can also (put on racing tires) that are effectively indistinguishable from an (all seasons) in terms of (legal speed limit). But if upgradeability and replaceable parts are your #1 concern, then...yeah, you're not in the target market for a (Bugatti). So that means that it's unlikely you'd ever have been looking at having a (Bugatti) be your (daily driver) in the first place—if you needed one to (race), it would be a secondary machine, where you'd probably set up your (race specs), (tune the engine), (lower the suspension), and test it, then go back to the (car) you actually enjoy using for the rest. Maybe look into a (Maserati)?

There is a more to laptop than just raw numbers of RAM, SSD and CPU. Paying six-digits for the car that has same number of wheels as Tata — outrageous.

by rimliu 7y ago

There is a more to laptop than just raw numbers of RAM, SSD and CPU. Paying six-digits for the car that has same number of wheels as Tata — outrageous.

mikece 7y ago

The inability to augment the MacBook Pro is a bigger pain. With my 3 year old Lenovo P50 I can swap BOTH NVMe slots, upgrade the RAM, etc. With the MacBook Pro I can only buy USB-C cables and adapters. Your point about six-figure cars is a good one. I can either spend $90k to $120k on a car to drive to work that's super quiet on the inside, or spend $12k on a used Accord and another $400 on the top-flight Bose noise-cancelling headphones and achieve the same level of quiet on my commute. The way Apple builds their hardware you can't modify it to improve how it works for you; the only option is to take it or leave it.

danaris 7y ago
You can use the same Bose headphones with your MacBook, y'know, and they aren't any more a modification of the MacBook than they are of the Accord. You can also plug in external Thunderbolt SSDs that are effectively indistinguishable from an internal in terms of speed. Your analogy kinda falls apart there. But if upgradeability and replaceable parts are your #1 concern, then...yeah, you're not in the target market for a Mac laptop. So that means that it's unlikely you'd ever have been looking at having a Mac be your primary machine in the first place—if you needed one to do development on, it would be a secondary machine, where you'd probably set up your dev environment, check out the code, compile it, and test it, then go back to the computer you actually enjoy using for the rest. Maybe look into a Mac Mini?
- jtuente 7y ago
  You can use the same (oil) with your (Bugatti), y'know, and they aren't any more a modification of the (Bugatti) than they are of the Accord. You can also (put on racing tires) that are effectively indistinguishable from an (all seasons) in terms of (legal speed limit). But if upgradeability and replaceable parts are your #1 concern, then...yeah, you're not in the target market for a (Bugatti). So that means that it's unlikely you'd ever have been looking at having a (Bugatti) be your (daily driver) in the first place—if you needed one to (race), it would be a secondary machine, where you'd probably set up your (race specs), (tune the engine), (lower the suspension), and test it, then go back to the (car) you actually enjoy using for the rest. Maybe look into a (Maserati)?