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Computers these days - the more appealing, exciting, cooler desirable, the higher the price, into the stratosphere. $9499 What ever happening to competition i
by wewewedxfgdf 2y ago
Computers these days - the more appealing, exciting, cooler desirable, the higher the price, into the stratosphere.
$9499
What ever happening to competition in computing?
Computing hardware competition used to be cut throat, drop dead, knife fight, last man standing brutally competitive. Now it's just a massive gold rush cash grab.
- hu3 2y agoIt doesn't even run Linux properly. Could cost half of that and it would still be uninteresting for my use cases. For AI, on-demand cloud processing is magnitudes better in speed and software compatibility anyway.
- dcchambers 2y agoThere are legitimate use cases for local LLMs. For example, I'll happily feed my entire directory of private notes/diary entries into an LLM running offline on my laptop. I would never do that with someone else's LLM running in the cloud.
- niek_pas 2y agoThe Macintosh plus, released in 1986, cost $2600 at the time, or $7460 adjusted for inflation.
- bigyabai 2y agoIt even came with an official display! Nowadays that's a $1,600-$6,000 accessory, depending on whether you own a VESA mount.
- WXLCKNO 2y agoYou take the top price of the top of the line newest pro chip apple produces and then make this argument?
- bustling-noose 2y agoThe MacBook Air with M4 chip 16gb ram and an amazing display and camera is just 999$. During back to school that will happen soon it’s 899$ with free AirPods. That’s really great value given how good the hardware is.
- Underphil 2y agoYou're thinking about this as if the average Joe is interested in this. They're not. The tech folk salivating in this discussion are a rounding error when it comes to computing. The vast majority has no need for this.