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Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

parkaboy wrote: post #58
cactusplant7374 wrote: post #57

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Can the average person lease a laptop or just businesses?

I don't think they officially support leasing to individuals directly, but it's very easy to setup a leasing/biz account with them as a business. I think any Apple store has a POC there that can help / see: https://www.apple.com/shop/finance/business-financing You can very easily setup an LLC and obtain an EIN. It's been a minute since I've setup an Apple financing account, so I don't recall what they require on the…

If the laptop is stolen are you on the hook for the whole thing minus some depreciation?

Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by ghaff »

inanutshellus wrote: post #64
parkaboy wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think they officially support leasing to individuals directly, but it's very easy to setup a leasing/biz account with them as a business. I think any Apple store has a POC there that can help / see: https://www.apple.com/shop/finance/business-financing You can very easily setup an LLC and obtain an EIN. It's been a minute since I've setup an Apple financing account, so I don't recall what they require on the…

locally, last i checked, an LLC costs ~$20/yr ... so yeah. easy.

I have one which I haven't really used though probably a useful thing to have. But be aware of various other fees like annual state fees. It definitely costs more than I was thinking it would once all the costs are taken into account. For a lot of purposes just using a DBA is probably fine.

Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by code_for_monkey »

bandrami wrote: post #43
tarruda wrote: post #16

I'm wondering what would be the use case for a laptop with 24TB storage.

DJs and music producers. I have about 32TB of externally stored samples and have to curate them for my DAW laptop.

phew howdy, you must be crate digging. Thats a lot of samples! Im impressed

Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by ghaff »

IAmBroom wrote: post #70
dguest wrote: post #44

I didn't realize Amazon was offering payment plans for laptops. I'd only ever seen that for cars and houses. Which makes me wonder, what do they do when people default on payments? Do they have a kill switch they can throw? Or do they send the repo man to repossess it while you're sleeping?

Amazon offers me payment plans on sub-$100 items.

Installment payment offers even for relatively inexpensive items are super-common.

Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by tony69 »

inanutshellus wrote: post #64
parkaboy wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think they officially support leasing to individuals directly, but it's very easy to setup a leasing/biz account with them as a business. I think any Apple store has a POC there that can help / see: https://www.apple.com/shop/finance/business-financing You can very easily setup an LLC and obtain an EIN. It's been a minute since I've setup an Apple financing account, so I don't recall what they require on the…

locally, last i checked, an LLC costs ~$20/yr ... so yeah. easy.

Nice. In california it’s $800/yr

Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by Aurornis »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #45

Expensive is relative. I'm the CTO of a small startup and we're leasing our laptops from Apple. We don't have huge budgets. I got my 16" M4 Max, 48GB, 1TB model a few months ago. Costs us 105 euro/month. That includes 3 years of extended warranty. After the lease is over (3 years), we have the option to buy the laptops at a discount typically. The new value of this thing is around 4500 euro, I think. We could have go…

> 30 seconds vs 3-4 minutes on my previous laptop (14" M1 16GB) is a big deal. It was more constrained for memory (swapping)

This is why data driven purchasing is key. Running some tests and having some data to show how much time will be saved by a laptop upgrade makes the decision process much easier.

The companies that only decide based on prices and budgets set by someone making blanket decisions for the company always get it wrong.

It’s also possible to go too far on the spending path. I remember some people who demanded brand new maxed out MacBook Pros every generation until someone ran some tests and proved that it wasn’t making any noticeable difference at all year over year despite costing upwards of $5-6K per person. That’s money that could have gone to something else.

Re: Most expensive laptops

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Post by vel0city »

mschuster91 wrote: post #33
yccs27 wrote: post #13

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Are there any laptops that actually have a desktop GPU built in?

I've come across a few in the past, these 18 inch giant-ass "desktop replacement" / gamer things that had insanely large power bricks. Been a few years but I think they all had desktop GPU chips from NV. But I think it's not possible to do any more, not with any high-power card that is... the RTX 5090 has a TDP of 600-ish watts, you can neither get in that kind of power into a laptop, even at 24 volt that's still 25…

The most extreme I've seen are some laptops that have two 240W power supplies, and even then that wouldn't be enough to reliably power these extreme high end desktop GPUs these days.
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