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The Macbook Air with 16GB RAM and 512GB isn't really priced competitively here in Germany. It's almost 1600€.
by Tepix 6y ago
The Macbook Air with 16GB RAM and 512GB isn't really priced competitively here in Germany. It's almost 1600€.
- graycrow 6y ago€1665 in Czechia, and we have much lower purchasing power.
- eru 6y agoTo be honest, you'd expect widely traded good to trade at the same prices, regardless of local purchasing power.
- learnstats2 6y agoThe price seems to be the same except for tax. Germany has a 16% rate (July-Dec 2020) and Czechia 21% for sales tax/VAT.
- eb0la 6y agoBefore Brexit sometimes the you could buy apple stuff for less on amazon.co.uk than in the rest of Europe because the price was fixed in GBP.
- blunte 6y agoI think it often depends on big resellers (like Best Buy, for example). They can provide discounts which Apple will not do directly to the customer, and which other resellers can't do because they don't turn enough units. That's true of many other common goods worldwide. Unless you can buy a locally made item in a lower purchasing power country, you will usually pay a currency exchange equivalent price for the item. Actually you often pay more because the local shop selling the product cannot get bulk pricing and pass along the discount to you. Finally, when you add the local taxes - 23% in Portugal, for example - the price can be much higher compared to Alaska, US (< 2%). That last bit is really not Apple's fault.
- blunte 6y agoIt's not trying to compete with German PCs (which have some nice options, but yet are Windows PCs, not Macs). I'm not an Apple fanboy, and I'm still very displeased with many of their decisions (touchbar being #1 on MBPs). But if you consider the packaging (small, light, sturdy, now-decent keyboard), and consider their performance, and then consider macOS, I think they are more than competitive. Even if you match every spec, including size/weight and durability, it comes down to Windows vs macOS. Ironically, macOS is free while Windows is not, but macOS is worth more (to me and many others).
- fluffything 6y agoI have a MacBook Air 2012, and have been waiting to upgrade for... 2 years already. The laptop will probably end up being 10 years old by the time I upgrade... - crappy webcam, - no built-in SD card reader (a 1TB SD card is ~200$, and my music does not need to be stored on an expensive SSD) - magsafe.. if this was the only downgrade, I'd upgrade, but TBH I love magsafe on my mac and I would miss it if I upgrade.
- blunte 6y agoEliminating MagSafe for power ports was one of the Apple choices I hated. So many times something has happened and ripped my power cable off my 2014 MBP, and MagSafe saved the laptop from damage or a fall. And worse, Apple has now applied new and different meaning to the same name :(.
- sroussey 6y agoJust buy a USB magsafe type cable for $20 and be done with it.
- fluffything 6y agocan you recommend one? all the ones i've found have horrible reviews
- eertami 6y ago
- tpush 6y agoSeems to be priced pretty competitively?
- valuearb 6y agoYou can get a fanless PC with a 1,700 single core GeekBench score for less than $1,600 euros in Europe?