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When did $600 become budget?
by ozlikethewizard 7mo ago
When did $600 become budget?
- thunderbong 7mo agoFor existing Mac owners.
- Schmerika 7mo agoWould you be surprised if I told you that $600 is slightly under 11 days of the average rent [0]? 0 - https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/ https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/
- ozlikethewizard 7mo agoIs that more rents are insane though, british perspective but 600 ~ £450, £450 is still around a third of an average rent, but I'd consider a budget laptop those in the £2-350 range. For the average user £400+ (so $500+) is decidely midrange purely on the virtue that its the middle of the range for general use laptops (being £150-1000 really, anything more than that and you're entering decent gaming/workstation specs).
- amenhotep 7mo agoNot to mention that it they are, naturally, going to convert $600 to £600.
- dzhiurgis 7mo agoAre you comparing 11 days of utility vs 5+ years worth?
- Schmerika 7mo agoI am comparing two things which cost the same. In a discussion about pricing. If your point was that it's crazy that 11 days of rent costs the same as a mid-range laptop, I completely agree. That's where we're at though.
- JumpCrisscross 7mo agoWhen it lasts 5 to 10 years. I’m still using my 2020 MacBook Pro, and figure I’ll get another half decade out of it. That’s <$200/year. The Neo could be a <$100/year laptop, which puts it in the same class as $200 shitbooks that crap out after two or three years.
- mixmastamyk 7mo agoRecently after another round of 30-40% inflation.
- dzhiurgis 7mo agoIt's $370 in 2006 dollars.
- Loudergood 7mo agoI tell anyone spending less than that not to waste their money, and to get refurb instead.
- pazimzadeh 7mo agoanyone can buy it for $500 using the education store