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Totally agree. The new Air to my mind is decent value at $1199. But that then becomes 1499 EUR in Germany, for... some reason. And then you see that the entry level model is specced low, and to get a reasonable 16GB memory and 512GB SSD bumps it up to 1959 EUR, which is a very different level of purchase, and also most of the way to the cost of a comparable 14" M1 MacBook Pro.
"Some reason"? Isn't it pretty obviously taxes?
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Last I heard a Mac is a PC. Hey even phones are PCs. They're all personal computers. In fact I would say mac's are more often PC then windows machines. Windows machines are often not personal and are used my many people in big orgs in a shared corporate fashion.
Oh man it's been a while since I've seen this particular flavor of needless pedantry. What a blast from the past!
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I have a 2019 pro and my wife got an M1 air and every time I use her computer for anything I kick myself for not waiting a year and getting an M1 for myself.
The resale value of that 2019 will be high. I don’t know the safest place to sell them though. Recommendations welcome! EBay just fills me with dread.
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I have a M1 with 16G ram. I don't think 8GB ram is even feasible - and that's coming from a user whose primary interface is terminal. 16GB is great though, never had a problem with RAM issue.
Why is that though? I have a ten year old machine at home with 8gigs of ram and it smoothly runs with alot of chrome tabs open?
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Last I heard a Mac is a PC. Hey even phones are PCs. They're all personal computers. In fact I would say mac's are more often PC then windows machines. Windows machines are often not personal and are used my many people in big orgs in a shared corporate fashion.
Oh man it's been a while since I've seen this particular flavor of needless pedantry. What a blast from the past!
Apple did an amazing job to market it as such and create an us and them division. Imagine Tesla started marketing themselves as 'we're not a car, were a Tesla'
Although true, it was some what meant in jest
I can't wait for risc equivalent processors to show up in the pc space (besides apple). Using something like M2 with an OS I don't hate with a passion will be a huge upgrade.
It's very tempting, but my MacBook Air M1 has been great and performance wise any improvement is probably barely noticeable in the day to day that I'd end up feeling like I just bought a new chassis. Which could still be nice.. although most of the time it's in clamshell attached to my monitor. I'll have to sleep on this!
For M1 owners, just wait for M3. It should be on TSMC 3nm which will be the next true node shrinkage.
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I would be long AAPL if they didn't have the majority of their production in China. That now poses a significant risk and Apple execs must be sweating bullets right now scrambling to onshore.
Let alone China invading Taiwan. What’s going on in Ukraine is alteady horrible, add this scenario to the equation and we’re looking at ultimate doom. There. I said it.
I figure whatever I can get at that time will serve me well for the next 10 years.