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It's an introductory model. Just like the first 13" M1. Lower cost components and less features. It takes time to ramp up a new CPU. It takes time to promote n
by SpikeDad 4y ago
It's an introductory model. Just like the first 13" M1. Lower cost components and less features.
It takes time to ramp up a new CPU. It takes time to promote new CPUs with new features.
It takes time for Apple to walk the marketing they want in order to direct folks to the kinds of machines they want to make.
Does NO ONE have any patience?
- Sakos 4y agoThe base model costs 1600€. Why should anybody have any patience when they're paying that much for a laptop?
- smoldesu 4y agoI had the same thought the other day when I found out that the base 14" Macbook Pro only has 8 cores. Imagine paying $2,000 for a laptop with 16 gigs of memory, and the CPU is by-and-large the same as a $1,000 product...
- faeriechangling 4y agoThe $1000 product has 8gb of ram, the $1400 air is the one with the equivalent ram and memory specs. Look at the m1 Mac vs the m1 air, and the m1 MacBook Pro vs the m1 studio. The m1 air comes at a $300 premium, the m1 MacBook Pro comes at a $900 premium. Incidentally meaning that the m1 pro 8 core chip is not coming at a price premium over the m1 air 8 core chip. I think the idea a webcam, a screen, a trackpad, a battery, a case, and a keyboard is worth $900 is what's eyebrow raising about Apple's pricing but at the end of the day professional users are price insensitive and Apple understands that. The other issue is that integrated SSD and memory, for any brand not just Apple is a bit of a racket compared to buying some workstation laptop with so-dimm slots and an NVME slot.
- metadat 4y agoSpot on, Apple has always been a bit of a ripoff, erm, I mean "premium apple tax".