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> "budget" laptop At this price it's more expensive than 80% of best-selling laptops, so not quite budget. If you compare in price to Dell for example, they on
by benhurmarcel 6y ago
> "budget" laptop
At this price it's more expensive than 80% of best-selling laptops, so not quite budget. If you compare in price to Dell for example, they only compete with their XPS line, which is their high-end one.
Apple only does high-end products, which is fine but doesn't make that model cheap.
- bstar77 6y agoThat why I put the word budget in quotes. It's the cheapest laptop they make even though it isn't all that cheap.
- oflannabhra 6y ago> Apple only does high-end products I know this gets repeated often, but this is simply not true. Apple _does_ make high-end products, and they market themselves as a high-end brand, but Apple has always filled as many market segments as they can. There are plenty examples that prove this statement wrong: iPod Shuffle, iPhone SE, the $250 iPad. They never do deep discounts on their products though, so when they age or go stale they are far overpriced; and they do _not_ make value or budget models.
- danpalmer 6y agoTo look at these CPUs a different way, it’s fairly competitive with Ryzen processors that cost $600-700 alone, except that will buy the whole Mac Mini.