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Because there is no viable alternative. Macs are way too expensive for normal people that want to book a trip and read emails once in a while, and Desktop Linux
by meibo 5y ago
Because there is no viable alternative. Macs are way too expensive for normal people that want to book a trip and read emails once in a while, and Desktop Linux sucks for everyone that's not technical or doesn't have ready access to someone technical.
- CyberRabbi 5y agoThat’s a good point
- hajile 5y agoThe M1 macbook air at $999 blows away windows laptops that cost twice as much. It’s available for $899 almost any day of the week on Amazon (or with a school discount). The average laptop selling price is somewhere in the $700 range. That’s hardly a huge premium considering the delta in performance and user experience compared to low specced machines. I’d also say without hesitation that cheap Chromebooks are better than their cheap windows competitors. If you just need to do basic things, ChromeOS is much snappier on slow hardware while also being more secure. If you need to do more, you’ll benefit from a faster system at which point the M1 is an easy choice for the money.
- Toutouxc 5y agoThe $999 M1 MacBook Air costs around $1400 in Europe (the Czech Republic, Germany, France and Poland), and most people I know get by on old $600 laptops. In my country even the base Air is very much a premium laptop and is not even expensive, but prohibitively expensive for most people.