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Lenovo X1 Extreme charges $340 to go from 16GB to 32GB. Then $680 from 32 to 64GB. (regular price, there's a clearance sale now). $300 to upgrade SSD from 512GB
by silverlake 5y ago
Lenovo X1 Extreme charges $340 to go from 16GB to 32GB. Then $680 from 32 to 64GB. (regular price, there's a clearance sale now). $300 to upgrade SSD from 512GB to 1TB. It's $2400 for an X1E (at sale price. Regular is $4.3k!!) roughly at par to $2k 14" pro.
Surface Laptop Studio with similar specs at $2100. Costs +$600 to go to 32GB and 1TB (which == $400 + $200 upgrade you mentioned).
Dell XPS 15" is $2400.
If you were even dimly aware of current prices for high-end laptops you'd know the Mac is priced in the same expensive range. If you prefer $1K plastic crap that's fine. Some people like Velveeta and Canned Spam too.
- slownews45 5y agoWhat's interesting is Dell is shipping machines at top end with chips from generally older / slower nodes. Somehow Apple has some kind of lock on a lot of capacity at TSMC at the top end of the node range. That XPS 15" is probably running a comet lake chip. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/comet_lake https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/comet_... Ie, 14mm, launched in 2019 That node size (less the ++'s) goes back to Skylake (when it was amazing actually) which is from 2015.