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You just complained about a hardware company releasing new hardware.

by ianai 4y ago

5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
no i complained about the poor value. i mean the OS are only changed every year to give people a reason to buy new hardware. there are so many regressions in the OS over the years too. why does the appearance of finder have to change every year... i bought ipad mini to find the OS no longer has a UI zoom feature which was there on the previous iPad OS, just totally deprecated = of course returned it
- mwint 4y ago
  This is false, the iPad has both zoom-in[0] and increase font size[1]. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/zoom-ipad9a245e3e/15.0/ipados/15.0 https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/zoom-ipad9a245e3e/15.0/... [1] https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/display-text-size-ipad9a246013/15.0/ipados/15.0 https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/display-text-size-ipad9...
  - 5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
    https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/display-zoom-missing-with-ipad-mini-6.2315071/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/display-zoom-missing-wi...
social_quotient 4y ago
I think it’s a software company (apple) making changes to the ui to sell more hardware (apple). In a predictable coordinated fashion. The issue here is apple will always be the bad guy since they are seen doing all of this in a coordinated attempt to sell more stuff. Dell on the other hand only sells more stuff either when the software landscape, that they don’t control, has moved too far for the legacy hardware to keep up. Or they innovated on the hardware and show enough value for you to change hardware independent from software. Dell will almost never be the bad guy here unless they make subpar machines. The XPS and precision laptops are far from subpar. So you get guys like the parent that prefer dell since it seems more natural and not like they are being played.
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captainbland 4y ago
To me it just feels like this release isn't very exciting other than the new colour. The new chip sounds fine, but until real world independent benchmarks come out it's probably safest to assume it's an incremental improvement. Otherwise if you're getting a base model then you're not getting a lot more than you would have gotten in 2020 (still 8GB memory which is becoming laughable for such an expensive machine, still 256GB SSD, slightly fancier screen and webcam), and at least by UK pricing you'll be paying 25% more for the privilege.
- kmlx 4y ago
  > and at least by UK pricing you'll be paying 25% more for the privilege the US prices that apple show on their US website are without sales tax. in the US you pay the sales tax separately from what apple is advertising. in the UK the VAT is baked in.
  - captainbland 4y ago
    I mean that the release price of the M2 MBA including VAT (£1249) is that much higher than the release price of the M1 MBA including VAT (£999 - the same price as it is today on the apple store although in practice you can find them new from £850-ish).

You just complained about a hardware company releasing new hardware.

by ianai 4y ago

You just complained about a hardware company releasing new hardware.

no i complained about the poor value. i mean the OS are only changed every year to give people a reason to buy new hardware. there are so many regressions in the OS over the years too. why does the appearance of finder have to change every year... i bought ipad mini to find the OS no longer has a UI zoom feature which was there on the previous iPad OS, just totally deprecated = of course returned it

mwint 4y ago
This is false, the iPad has both zoom-in[0] and increase font size[1]. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/zoom-ipad9a245e3e/15.0/ipados/15.0 https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/zoom-ipad9a245e3e/15.0/... [1] https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/display-text-size-ipad9a246013/15.0/ipados/15.0 https://support.apple.com/guide/ipad/display-text-size-ipad9...
- 5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
  https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/display-zoom-missing-with-ipad-mini-6.2315071/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/display-zoom-missing-wi...

social_quotient 4y ago

I think it’s a software company (apple) making changes to the ui to sell more hardware (apple). In a predictable coordinated fashion. The issue here is apple will always be the bad guy since they are seen doing all of this in a coordinated attempt to sell more stuff. Dell on the other hand only sells more stuff either when the software landscape, that they don’t control, has moved too far for the legacy hardware to keep up. Or they innovated on the hardware and show enough value for you to change hardware independent from software. Dell will almost never be the bad guy here unless they make subpar machines. The XPS and precision laptops are far from subpar. So you get guys like the parent that prefer dell since it seems more natural and not like they are being played.

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captainbland 4y ago

To me it just feels like this release isn't very exciting other than the new colour. The new chip sounds fine, but until real world independent benchmarks come out it's probably safest to assume it's an incremental improvement. Otherwise if you're getting a base model then you're not getting a lot more than you would have gotten in 2020 (still 8GB memory which is becoming laughable for such an expensive machine, still 256GB SSD, slightly fancier screen and webcam), and at least by UK pricing you'll be paying 25% more for the privilege.

kmlx 4y ago
> and at least by UK pricing you'll be paying 25% more for the privilege the US prices that apple show on their US website are without sales tax. in the US you pay the sales tax separately from what apple is advertising. in the UK the VAT is baked in.
- captainbland 4y ago
  I mean that the release price of the M2 MBA including VAT (£1249) is that much higher than the release price of the M1 MBA including VAT (£999 - the same price as it is today on the apple store although in practice you can find them new from £850-ish).