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> Priced out the one I would buy and it is $4300. Seems the value isn't quite there. I was also surprised at how high the maxed out laptops can go in price. Fr
by makeitdouble 5y ago
> Priced out the one I would buy and it is $4300. Seems the value isn't quite there.
I was also surprised at how high the maxed out laptops can go in price. From memory, around the 2015 model line the top end would be at around $3000 without the crazy disk options.
There was a rule of the thumb that Apple priced their product at a rough ratio of $2 / day. That would give 4 year for my 2014 laptop, and it mostly did. That would be 5.5 years for the top end 16" laptop, I guess that's reasonable ?
- eyelidlessness 5y agoFWIW, while I’m disappointed by the pricing I bought a 2019 16": - Mid CPU - Lowest available discrete GPU - Max RAM - 2 TB SSD RAM was my absolute must have, and to get the same on today's MBP: - I would have to at least max the CPU - That’s substantially better GPU than I’d buy otherwise For the same RAM and storage, the price is almost identical (in fact it might be identical but I don’t feel like digging up my old order to compare such a small difference). I am disappointed they didn’t move the price down more. And I’m disappointed I have to buy more compute than I care about to get the other specs I want. But it’s clear at least to me this is more value for my money than I paid 2 years ago.
- bredren 5y agoIt’s worse if you bought a recent Intel based MacBook Air. I have a 2018 and it’s bad performance and battery compared to the M1.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI mean I paid probably 3-4x what you did for a similarly outclassed computer so IDK if it’s worse.
- bredren 5y agoAh I thought I read you had a 2016. I realize I haven’t looked at the exact price / performance jumps between the releases across MBA and MBP for Intel to Apple Silicon. I’m curious just how big of a change there was across common metrics.
- makeitdouble 5y agoConsolation would be that you still have full backward compatibility with all the Intel ecosystem. I like the M1, but I could have chosen the 16" intel at the time I bought it, even if it's to switch to the M1 Pro/Max next year for instance.
- bredren 5y agoSo far I have not seen much compelling need for full backward compatibility to Intel. Have you come across many instances where you wish you had an Intel CPU?
- itsdsmurrell 5y agoMoney printer go brr.