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> What does pro even mean? It means “the materials and manufacturing budget is increased to allow the designers to push the diminishing-returns boundary furthe
by tlholaday 5y ago
> What does pro even mean?
It means “the materials and manufacturing budget is increased to allow the designers to push the diminishing-returns boundary further.”
For competitive use-cases, where an increase in capability makes the difference between winning and losing, paying the increased cost of the more capable tool is a sound tactic.
- greenwoman 5y agoThat's meaningless marketing nonsense.
- dangus 5y agoAnd it's been called the MacBook Pro for 15 years, I think it's time to get over it.
- ghaff 5y agoIt was admittedly likely a more meaningful distinction when a plain (white) MacBook was clearly much more oriented towards students and casual users than professionals using it day to day for business purposes.