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Another year, another laughable release with the same BS language trying to dazzle "Pro" wanna-be's. There is nothing Pro about these machines.

sturza 7y ago
if 32 GB is not “pro”, i don’t know if we have the same understanding about what “pro” means
- SnowflakeOnIce 7y ago
  That’s like... 1 Slack and a dozen Chrome tabs. :|
- SparkleBunny 7y ago
  I have 64GB in my Thinkpad P71. I got it ~2 years ago. Why so much ram? I make money with this beast. How's your Starbucks?
  - pb7 7y ago
    I bet I make at least twice the money with half the RAM. ;) Weird thing to belittle someone over there man.
    - sturza 7y ago
      you basically did the same thing with your comment
      - pb7 7y ago
        I'm just speaking his language to deflate his ego a little bit by showing him that his point that RAM = money has no basis in reality.
        SparkleBunny 7y ago
        I was making fun of the fact that he thought 32 was pro. I slam into the 64gb limit on my laptop daily.
        pb7 7y ago
        I think that's egotistical gatekeeping. There's no basis for 64GB being "pro" and 32GB not (or even 16GB or 8GB, for that matter). You can make millions of dollars on an MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM. Your use case does not dictate what is a reasonable amount for other professionals.
        codeisawesome 7y ago
        What do you do with 64 GB on your personal machine to use it up completely? Just curious..
thethethethe 7y ago
Have you ever been to a FAANG campus? There are thousands of engineers walking around with MacBooks. I’m pretty sure those engineers would be considered to be professional
- neuronic 7y ago
  Where it doesn't matter that the maxed out specs at which point you can call the machine "Pro" cost something like €3000? I'm sorry, but 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD with 2 USB-C ports and jet engine fans aren't really that "Pro".
  - thethethethe 7y ago
    You are moving the goalposts. So the high end version of the laptop is “pro” but the cheaper one isn’t? Doesn’t this follow for other similar ultra books? Why does a computer have to be cheap-ish to be “pro”?
    - neuronic 7y ago
      Because it carries the "Pro" label. Why not just call it Macbook then? Why release what is essentially 2 products under one label, confusing consumers. It's predatory because Apple charges way too much for way too little when it comes to the Intel Gen8 models of the 2020 MBP.

sturza 7y ago

if 32 GB is not “pro”, i don’t know if we have the same understanding about what “pro” means

SnowflakeOnIce 7y ago
That’s like... 1 Slack and a dozen Chrome tabs. :|
SparkleBunny 7y ago
I have 64GB in my Thinkpad P71. I got it ~2 years ago. Why so much ram? I make money with this beast. How's your Starbucks?
- pb7 7y ago
  I bet I make at least twice the money with half the RAM. ;) Weird thing to belittle someone over there man.
  - sturza 7y ago
    you basically did the same thing with your comment
    - pb7 7y ago
      I'm just speaking his language to deflate his ego a little bit by showing him that his point that RAM = money has no basis in reality.
      - SparkleBunny 7y ago
        I was making fun of the fact that he thought 32 was pro. I slam into the 64gb limit on my laptop daily.
        pb7 7y ago
        I think that's egotistical gatekeeping. There's no basis for 64GB being "pro" and 32GB not (or even 16GB or 8GB, for that matter). You can make millions of dollars on an MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM. Your use case does not dictate what is a reasonable amount for other professionals.
        codeisawesome 7y ago
        What do you do with 64 GB on your personal machine to use it up completely? Just curious..

thethethethe 7y ago

Have you ever been to a FAANG campus? There are thousands of engineers walking around with MacBooks. I’m pretty sure those engineers would be considered to be professional

neuronic 7y ago
Where it doesn't matter that the maxed out specs at which point you can call the machine "Pro" cost something like €3000? I'm sorry, but 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD with 2 USB-C ports and jet engine fans aren't really that "Pro".
- thethethethe 7y ago
  You are moving the goalposts. So the high end version of the laptop is “pro” but the cheaper one isn’t? Doesn’t this follow for other similar ultra books? Why does a computer have to be cheap-ish to be “pro”?
  - neuronic 7y ago
    Because it carries the "Pro" label. Why not just call it Macbook then? Why release what is essentially 2 products under one label, confusing consumers. It's predatory because Apple charges way too much for way too little when it comes to the Intel Gen8 models of the 2020 MBP.