Nah; I have currently both recent MacBook and windows sitting on my desk; and while the MacBook is smooth 90% of the time; it’s a bit sluggish with swap memory activated when having 8gb/256 Gb if I have about 7-10 tabs open (using the new 15 inch MacBook Air 2 that I bought for 1299). Base model M2 or M3 should not have any gigs of ram when they were charging over $1000 for laptops. It’s complete robbery and they’re also giving you a single Nand chip and to upgrade to a reasonably functional degree of computer, it will be another $400 and upgrade to get it to 16 GB and 512, which should be the base for 1200+ laptops. Unified memory on high res 15 inch models is shared between multiple aspects of the laptop, and it’s just shortsighted for them to say the average person doesn’t need it. Also they intentionally limit 16 GB variants from going on sale (I’d gladly fork over another 100 bucks for a 16gb variant but fuck 200 bucks more for 8 more gb of ram; that’s plain bullshit)
While I understand that people who are using these for work can write them taxes off, and those students can get $100 off, Apple is definitely taking advantage of the fact that their engineering department is amazing and their business team is trying to squeeze every dollar out of the people. I understand the apple premium prices, and love their products where there is limited customizability, such as the Apple AirPods Pro GEN one and two. But the bullshit they are pulling with the MacBooks has gone a little out of hand. They have learned from their phones that they can provide a base model, which has completely useless specs, and people will still pay for the upgrade. So they’re actuaries have suggested that they continue this stupid ass business model Over to the laptops so they can continue taking advantage of the customer.
Meanwhile Lenovo yoga 7i with 16gb/512gb with 1360p; I bought for 599, and also has a touch screen and is a 2-in-1; and an 2.5k display screen. With original price of 800 bucks; this is still completely wrecking apple in terms of base specks. I’ve had 0 slow downs with this computer and the hard drive is twice as fast at minimum.
I feel like Apple will never have market share because of these stupid practices. Which is sad because their silicon is amazing. Ultimately other people will catch up, or so is my hope so that apple can return back to earth
Nah; I have currently both recent MacBook and windows sitting on my desk; and while the MacBook is smooth 90% of the time; it’s a bit sluggish with swap memory activated when having 8gb/256 Gb if I have about 7-10 tabs open (using the new 15 inch MacBook Air 2 that I bought for 1299). Base model M2 or M3 should not have any gigs of ram when they were charging over $1000 for laptops. It’s complete robbery and they’re also giving you a single Nand chip and to upgrade to a reasonably functional degree of computer, it will be another $400 and upgrade to get it to 16 GB and 512, which should be the base for 1200+ laptops. Unified memory on high res 15 inch models is shared between multiple aspects of the laptop, and it’s just shortsighted for them to say the average person doesn’t need it. Also they intentionally limit 16 GB variants from going on sale (I’d gladly fork over another 100 bucks for a 16gb variant but fuck 200 bucks more for 8 more gb of ram; that’s plain bullshit)
While I understand that people who are using these for work can write them taxes off, and those students can get $100 off, Apple is definitely taking advantage of the fact that their engineering department is amazing and their business team is trying to squeeze every dollar out of the people. I understand the apple premium prices, and love their products where there is limited customizability, such as the Apple AirPods Pro GEN one and two. But the bullshit they are pulling with the MacBooks has gone a little out of hand. They have learned from their phones that they can provide a base model, which has completely useless specs, and people will still pay for the upgrade. So they’re actuaries have suggested that they continue this stupid ass business model Over to the laptops so they can continue taking advantage of the customer.
Meanwhile Lenovo yoga 7i with 16gb/512gb with 1360p; I bought for 599, and also has a touch screen and is a 2-in-1; and an 2.5k display screen. With original price of 800 bucks; this is still completely wrecking apple in terms of base specks. I’ve had 0 slow downs with this computer and the hard drive is twice as fast at minimum.
I feel like Apple will never have market share because of these stupid practices. Which is sad because their silicon is amazing. Ultimately other people will catch up, or so is my hope so that apple can return back to earth