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The probability of getting caught is low. Unless you're bringing back several boxes. Unpack, put it in your backpack, boom it's your personal item.
> The probability of getting caught is low Why would it be illegal if you just bought a single laptop for personal usage?
ITT: A bunch of nerds who refuse the accept the role of inflation and somehow don't realize that 99% of Apple's customers don't know what an M1 is or what the difference is to an Intel CPU. As if Apple consumers haven't always bought their products even if the new line-up isn't a huge upgrade from the previous year. No, suddenly out of nowhere, everything has changed and consumers have all collectively realized they…
I don't think that actually matters at all to most Apple customers. What I do think matters to most is the advertising that went into it that turned "Apple Chips" and "Apple Silicon" into phrases people actually using outside of tech circles.
They wanted one because it was new and different, regardless of what those differences were.
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Generally Apple users don't update their computers too often, and when they released the M1 models a lot of people had models pre-2016 that needed upgrading (since pos-2016 models sucked balls). So, part of that unusual demand was also customers finally upgrading their old MacBooks.
I’m still using a 15” MBP from 2012 for my personal computer! Waiting to see if a 15” MacBook Air gets released soon, as per the rumors.
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I feel the same way about my 16' i7 from 2019... but I also have an 14' M1 Pro for work, and if I didn't already have that, I would have definitely upgraded. It's just a much better machine, if nothing else from a battery life perspective. Twice as better, and that counts a lot for me.
I can't understand why anyone would want to support a manufacturer that designs a configuration that has the storage an memory soldiered in.
I think MBPs great devices - for my employer to purchase, but as an individual they’re just too expensive now.
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Cybersecurity dawg. Unless you are running Linux on it, you are at least 10x more at risk of a worm like penetration than something running a up to date OS.
He's running the latest os lol
Still using my 2013 MBPr, no reason to upgrade yet, runs the last non cloud versions of Adobe so i'm not spending $50/mo on software I already own. I bought a M1 mini for a desktop at home, no reason to upgrade that either, but switched to using Inkscape for design work on it as Adobe wants monthly fees now and I ain't doing that. Honestly looking for older Apple computers so I can still use non-cloud Adobe software.
Really big aversion to the "phone like" OS, secret changes to the filesystem, app-store apps, increasingly intrusive phoning home and other "modern improvements"
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It won't. My daily driver is still a mid-2010 iMac.
Cybersecurity. You are 10x more likely to be hacked than someone running a modern OS with browser+os-level zero days patched. At least run Linux on it.
Also, how can you patch a zero day?
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I’m still using a 15” MBP from 2012 for my personal computer! Waiting to see if a 15” MacBook Air gets released soon, as per the rumors.
Cybersecurity dawg. Unless you are running Linux on it, you are at least 10x more at risk of a worm like penetration than something running a up to date OS.