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My car has the same horsepower (or luggage space, or windshield size, or more seats, etc.) as a Porsche. For some reason nobody here brings that up. Considerin

by MR4D 5y ago

My car has the same horsepower (or luggage space, or windshield size, or more seats, etc.) as a Porsche. For some reason nobody here brings that up. Considering that AAPL is the most valuable company on the planet, they might just have a good understanding of their market. AAPL is serving their market well, and then make enough money each year to buy the entire Dell company. You may prefer Dell, and many people obviously do, but I don’t think AAPL needs to stuff 64Gb of Ram into everything.

peoplefromibiza 5y ago
> My car has the same horsepower (or luggage space, or windshield size, or more seats, etc.) as a Porsche. We agree. Porsche and Apple base offers are overpriced, for what they actually offer. A 959 pearl white it's one thing, but a Macan? in this particular case the M1 is not comparable to a Porsche, but more to a luxury hotel that has a very tiny bathroom or a limit of one cup of coffee at breakfast. When you consciously spend the kind of money a Mac costs, you really expect the best the money can buy. > You may prefer Dell, and many people obviously do You got it backwards though. 16gb of maximum RAM for a laptop in 2021 doesn't even match the Dell offering... Imagine if the afore mentioned Porsche had a limiter that let you use only 50% of the accelerating power, unless you buy the more expensive "pro" model. That is basically the same car, only with the limiter removed. Anyway, nobody said anything on the ability Apple to make money, probably it says more on the people who buy macs than on Apple itself The article simply says that the best laptop in the market can't have 16gb of maximum available RAM. Which is true.
- tomByrer 5y ago
  > The article simply says that the best laptop in the market can't have 16gb of maximum available RAM. Which is true. False, Air is NOT the 'best'; that is the Pro, urm Pro-Max or whatever marketing verbiage Apple is spitting out now. Air is the low-end model, so makes sense to make it 16Gb max (though that config is /hard/ to find retail). Reports say that M1-native code uses less memory, & memory usage is fast & efficient. So safe to say 16Gb with M1 ~= 20Gb Intel. So a 16Gb M1 Air is great /value/ machine, but not 'best'. 1st gen M1 Pro with max 16Gb, that was poor decision making IMHO.

by MR4D 5y ago

peoplefromibiza 5y ago

> My car has the same horsepower (or luggage space, or windshield size, or more seats, etc.) as a Porsche. We agree. Porsche and Apple base offers are overpriced, for what they actually offer. A 959 pearl white it's one thing, but a Macan? in this particular case the M1 is not comparable to a Porsche, but more to a luxury hotel that has a very tiny bathroom or a limit of one cup of coffee at breakfast. When you consciously spend the kind of money a Mac costs, you really expect the best the money can buy. > You may prefer Dell, and many people obviously do You got it backwards though. 16gb of maximum RAM for a laptop in 2021 doesn't even match the Dell offering... Imagine if the afore mentioned Porsche had a limiter that let you use only 50% of the accelerating power, unless you buy the more expensive "pro" model. That is basically the same car, only with the limiter removed. Anyway, nobody said anything on the ability Apple to make money, probably it says more on the people who buy macs than on Apple itself The article simply says that the best laptop in the market can't have 16gb of maximum available RAM. Which is true.

tomByrer 5y ago
> The article simply says that the best laptop in the market can't have 16gb of maximum available RAM. Which is true. False, Air is NOT the 'best'; that is the Pro, urm Pro-Max or whatever marketing verbiage Apple is spitting out now. Air is the low-end model, so makes sense to make it 16Gb max (though that config is /hard/ to find retail). Reports say that M1-native code uses less memory, & memory usage is fast & efficient. So safe to say 16Gb with M1 ~= 20Gb Intel. So a 16Gb M1 Air is great /value/ machine, but not 'best'. 1st gen M1 Pro with max 16Gb, that was poor decision making IMHO.