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A nice side effect of Apple entering this price range is that it might raise the bar for what people find acceptable in laptops at that price. Right now $600-$
by cosmic_cheese 1y ago
A nice side effect of Apple entering this price range is that it might raise the bar for what people find acceptable in laptops at that price.
Right now $600-$700 is where you start seeing much more dramatic corner cutting, with thinner body panels, way more flexing, crummy hinges, “just ok” trackpad/keyboard, etc. A $599 MacBook is almost guaranteed to solidly beat everything else at that price in those categories.
- bestouff 1y agoIs it, really ? Even Apple has to cut corners somewhere to reach that price.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoNot necessarily. They’re saving quite a bit from using their own SoCs which they’re also shipping in iPhones and iPads, both from massive economy of scale as well as from not having to make money on each SoC sold (unlike e.g. Intel or Qualcomm). There’s also other tricks they could pull like sharing screen panels and other components with iPads. Heck they might just use an iPad mainboard flashed with different firmware.
- AstroBen 1y agoThey don't necessarily need to be profitable on their base model with the amount they make from upgrades and the backend