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The price thing is really true. My current laptop i got at 48000 INR student discount (retailer at 65000) (the older HP Pavilion Aero 13inch). It's great 950g,
by porridgeraisin 5mo ago
The price thing is really true.
My current laptop i got at 48000 INR student discount (retailer at 65000) (the older HP Pavilion Aero 13inch). It's great 950g, 16gb ram, etc etc. still works well. this was many years ago. During this time macbooks were 90000 INR, and M1 was just coming out.
Now the next era of laptops are all 1 lakh NR. Including the windows ones. Importantly, the mac is still 1 lakh.
So it makes no sense for me to get an Asus zenbook or whatever.
Now, I daily drive linux and I hated macos when I used it at work. But it makes no sense whenever I think of upgrading my laptop, to get anything other than an M4 at 90000. If the latest in windows land was 65000, I would go for it. So I'm just waiting for the panther lake machines which are really good from what I've heard to become more mainstream and more devices to have them, including non-top-end ones, and I would pay 1L+ for those.
For anyone else without my aversion to macos, I just recommended Mac M4 the midnight blue ones, they all love it aesthetically and functionally. And it's always on "discount" on Amazon India as well.
Another advantage recommending macs to my relatives... The apple branding and the sleek look makes them treat it much more carefully. An equally expensive less sleek laptop they treat like a fridge. This is really helpful as most problems they ring you up for come from poor maintenance.
- nixass 5mo ago> The price thing is really true. No price tag can make me use insufferable MacOS, the same as iOS.
- anoncow 5mo agoAgreed. For programming , Linux > Mac, but Mac > Windows.
- Insanity 5mo agoUsing both Linux (at home) and Mac (at work), the differences are small for development. But my dev stack is basically just Neovim & CLI tools. That said, I’ll never work on Windows. 15ish years ago I did some .net work. C# was a fun language but development on windows is a special kind of torture.
- hurril 5mo agoAnything in particular that your Linux experience adds over what is available on macOS?
- rconti 5mo agoFor anyone else for whom the context clues were not enough, 1 lakh NR = 100,000INR > The apple branding and the sleek look makes them treat it much more carefully. This is a really interesting insight! Never would have thought of that.
- osigurdson 5mo agoIt hurts, but I'll pay a premium for worse hardware that will run Linux. But for others in my family Macbooks are just far better value by a wide margin than Windows laptops. Vertical integration really wins these days.
- fundad 5mo agoThis seems to be key. People must want Windows or Linux so badly they will pay 25-30% for a thinkpad with a track pad that is almost as good. Don't these manufacturers sell more machines than Apple and could benefit from better economies of scale. Maybe the scale is just at the low end and the iPhone subsidizes premium Mac hardware. I have yet to read about someone who priced out something "as good" as the MacBook Air in terms of component quality and efficiency. What would the price premium be... over 50%? Either way it costs money to avoid macOS at the higher end but not much when you’re spending thousands of US dollars.
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- stodor89 5mo ago> People must want Windows or Linux so badly they will pay 25-30% for a thinkpad Yup, I got Thinkpad X9, the idea being "Air 15 but with Windows". It does the job. I still think Air 15 is better (and cheaper), but the software compatibility and not needing to switch platforms outweighs that.
- fundad 5mo agoI love my 15 Air (M2). I’m curious how the Air 15 is better in a way that may or may not be available as an upgrade in the X9 or some other option.
- stodor89 5mo agoBetter SoC, no spinning fans. Also the screen won't die after 2 years of light mode usage. The remaining stuff... I'd say Lenovo has caught up for the most part.