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> This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head. This doesn't excuse years behavior not respecting their customer
by ProAm 6y ago
> This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head.
This doesn't excuse years behavior not respecting their customers on (price + performance) divided by bugs.
- jxi 6y agoYou make it sound like that was intentional rather than just a company having to pick it's focus and not being able to cater to every person's complaints.
- willio58 6y agoCustomers seem to be pretty happy with Apple in general so I can’t imagine they feel disrespected by the price and performance.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoI’ve done this exercise a couple times: pick a random Apple laptop configuration and find an equivalent from another vendor: they’re frequently so close price-wise it doesn’t matter (depends on what you want, but I’m willing to pay $200 or so for macOS and not having to deal with Linux power management.)
- ProAm 6y agoThere was a period of time where the laptops were not updated for almost 5 years and the price didnt change. No one remembers the past