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I agree they are but what if you can't afford to spend 800 or 900 on a laptop? There's also plenty of people who use their laptop until it's dead. Infact, I'd

I agree they are but what if you can't afford to spend 800 or 900 on a laptop? There's also plenty of people who use their laptop until it's dead. Infact, I'd argue it's probably more economical to purchase a repairable laptop and replace parts as needed.

mrtksn 3y ago
If you can't afford $900 you shouldn't be buying a laptop unless you absolutely need it in short term to get out of your current situation. You are probably in a precarious state, not really a chooser at this time and all you can do is to sort by price and buy the cheapest.
- mschild 3y ago
  Thats an incredibly privileged view on this. The world doesn't run high paying western salaries. Most people earn significantly less. The average monthly indian salary, by now the largest country in the world population wise, is roundabout 450 USD. Your advice boils down to just get richer and don't be poor.
  - mrtksn 3y ago
    My advice is, don't spend your money on low quality stuff unless you absolutely have to(i.e. maybe you will do some data entry stuff to buy food, then maybe you can spent a few hundred dollars on a laptop but if you are not in that kind of a situation save up buy something of good value later).
  - 0zemp2c 3y ago
    > Thats an incredibly privileged view on this. The world doesn't run high paying western salaries but that hurts Intel too...their profit margins are in their high-end CPUs people keep talking about the cost of Macs but they're cheaper than most Windows laptops... go look at the HP, Lenovo sites...they're not steering people toward $400 laptops
    - mschild 3y ago
      Not massively advertising low cost options and not having any at all are wildly different things. Of course companies push the items with the highest margins. They want to make money after all, but they still have plenty of options in the sub 600 category that will last 5+ years under normal use without issue. There's obviously a market for low priced laptops, otherwise so many companies wouldn't build them. And it doesn't hurt Intel. If the choice for them is to sell a low margin CPU or none at all, they're gonna sell the low margin CPU.
  - mlsu 3y ago
    Not to mention, Apple can be significantly more expensive in other countries due to tariffs and exchange rates.

mrtksn 3y ago

If you can't afford $900 you shouldn't be buying a laptop unless you absolutely need it in short term to get out of your current situation. You are probably in a precarious state, not really a chooser at this time and all you can do is to sort by price and buy the cheapest.

mschild 3y ago
Thats an incredibly privileged view on this. The world doesn't run high paying western salaries. Most people earn significantly less. The average monthly indian salary, by now the largest country in the world population wise, is roundabout 450 USD. Your advice boils down to just get richer and don't be poor.
- mrtksn 3y ago
  My advice is, don't spend your money on low quality stuff unless you absolutely have to(i.e. maybe you will do some data entry stuff to buy food, then maybe you can spent a few hundred dollars on a laptop but if you are not in that kind of a situation save up buy something of good value later).
- 0zemp2c 3y ago
  > Thats an incredibly privileged view on this. The world doesn't run high paying western salaries but that hurts Intel too...their profit margins are in their high-end CPUs people keep talking about the cost of Macs but they're cheaper than most Windows laptops... go look at the HP, Lenovo sites...they're not steering people toward $400 laptops
  - mschild 3y ago
    Not massively advertising low cost options and not having any at all are wildly different things. Of course companies push the items with the highest margins. They want to make money after all, but they still have plenty of options in the sub 600 category that will last 5+ years under normal use without issue. There's obviously a market for low priced laptops, otherwise so many companies wouldn't build them. And it doesn't hurt Intel. If the choice for them is to sell a low margin CPU or none at all, they're gonna sell the low margin CPU.
- mlsu 3y ago
  Not to mention, Apple can be significantly more expensive in other countries due to tariffs and exchange rates.