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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by iwontberude »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #935
GeekyBear wrote: post #553

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today. > The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-... This is in addition to the other two recent price hikes.

> To be fair, Microsoft Not sure what Microsoft has to do with this and why it's fair.

I guess Microsoft makes consumer electronics and (as much as it makes me shudder to say it) is a peer of Apple. I agree it’s not fair to Apple to draw comparisons with Microsoft given the sheer amount of damage they’ve done to the world.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by bigyabai »

nikanj wrote: post #859
whatever1 wrote: post #712

Apple did not have to be in this situation. Begging for capacity lost to startups. Everyone else can complain, but not Apple. They had a 250B warchest, exactly for such situations. Now somehow openAI has capacity and Apple does not. And think about it Apple is not in a better position than Valve for example. A teeny tiny company in comparison. It is an unprecedented managerial failure.

Apple should have burned billions in cash, so that they would be able to sell RAM at below-market-rate prices? But why?

Because Apple doesn't sell socketed memory, but instead integrated SOC products that usually stimulate growth in their much more profitable services segment?

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by zahlman »

akazantsev wrote: post #158
cma256 wrote: post #36

I love the "year of the linux desktop" meme but even so I feel compelled to say it. Year of the Linux desktop?? You don't need a new machine if your new OS uses 1/4 of the resources.

Unlikely Linux will become mainstream until people stop saying "install Linux" and not a particular distro. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop: something doesn't work because I need a more recent kernel, so... I installed the second "user-friendly" distro - Fedora. Scrolling is 10x faster in Chromium-based browsers, making it unusable. The fix - install KDE... Then I had to make hardware video acceleration w…

I got Mint back in 2022 for my desktop built in 2014. Everything worked fine and I was even able to customize my install (though I regret some choices). It used considerably fewer resources than Win10 (never mind Win11, which I don't think would even install on this machine) out of box. I'm talking 40% less RAM use at the desktop before opening programs; and that's for Cinnamon (Xfce would be leaner still). And grindy I/O that touches a lot of small files is about three times the speed. No fancy configuration necessary. I did a simple install for a relative on even older hardware, again no problems.

If I needed to change a kernel version, it's literally as easy as selecting it from a menu in a pre-installed GUI "update manager", letting it do its thing and rebooting. I can get up to the bleeding edge (although I have no good reason to).

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by mdnahas »

abc123abc123 wrote: post #877
tavavex wrote: post #173

Anyone else here enjoy living in the future? Look at us, we get AI megacorporations ruling the world and bestowing us with the power to use their servers for just $20-200/month. It's practically charity, and all we had to give up for it is all consumer hardware, the quality of the internet and our own jobs. I love it here!

Sure do! Infant mortality lowest it has ever been in the history of man, we live the longest, our material welfare is the highest it has ever been! I have electricity, I can talk with friends all over the planet for free, instantly, I can get to anywhere on the planet within a day. I could go on and on forever. AI will crash, and once we're through the trough of disillusionment we'll see where it will shine and it wi…

I read “Enlightenment Now” and it is full of beautiful graphs of quality of life over time improving. More GDP, less hunger, longer life spans.

There was one odd graph. It showed that rising GDP lead to more happiness in every country except one: the USA.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by bmitc »

GeekyBear wrote: post #553
primaprashant wrote: post #465

These are the price changes mentioned in the article: Macs MacBook Neo: $699 (up from $599) 13-inch MacBook Air: $1,299 (up from $1,099) 15-inch MacBook Air: $1,499 (up from $1,299) M5 MacBook Pro: $1,999 (up from $1,699) M5 Pro MacBook Pro: $2,499 (up from $2,199) M5 Max MacBook Pro: $4,099 (up from $3,599) iMac: $1,499 (up from $1,299) M4 Max Mac Studio: $2,499 (up from $1,999) M3 Ultra Mac Studio: $5,299 (up from…

To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today. > The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-... This is in addition to the other two recent price hikes.

How is that a comparison? Consoles are well known tobe sold as loss leaders.

Apple doesn't sell anything remotely close to a loss leader.

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Post by jaycarter »

Ordered a refurb M3 two weeks ago specifically because I had a bad feeling about Q3. Now refreshing the refurb store to see if the prices there tick up too. The thing about "absorbing tariff costs" is that it's a great sentence to say when you also want to reset price anchors upward permanently.

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Post by nosioptar »

panta wrote: post #904
abc123abc123 wrote: post #877

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure do! Infant mortality lowest it has ever been in the history of man, we live the longest, our material welfare is the highest it has ever been! I have electricity, I can talk with friends all over the planet for free, instantly, I can get to anywhere on the planet within a day. I could go on and on forever. AI will crash, and once we're through the trough of disillusionment we'll see where it will shine and it wi…

Those living the longest are those born 75-85 years ago. Later generations will have to wait to assess how it ended for them.

Gen X and early millenials are already doing worse than boomers did at that age...

https://now.tufts.edu/2026/03/09/why-arent-americans-living-...

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Post by Narishma »

zamadatix wrote: post #561
GeekyBear wrote: post #553

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, Microsoft announced their third XBox price hike today. > The price of XBOX consoles will increase by US$100 for 512 GB models and US$150 for 1 TB models. We will also be sunsetting our 2 TB model. https://kotaku.com/xbox-price-increase-2026-tariffs-buy-now-... This is in addition to the other two recent price hikes.

1.16x simple mean on XBOX 1.22x simple mean on Apple Closer than I expected, but some products are quite the outliers. E.g. Apple TV is 1.54x. That's gotta hurt.

Xbox has had two or three other price increases before this most recent one.

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Post by nosioptar »

toasterlovin wrote: post #774
HDBaseT wrote: post #718

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I know this is a bit off topic, but is anyone excited for the future? I'm only 20, but everyone used to talk about how excited they were for the future. I don't know anyone who is excited for the future. It upsets me I never got to live the "glory days" of cars, technology, outdoor activities, music, entertainment, etc. I only see it getting significantly worse too. It's hard not to fall into the trap of doomerism bu…

With all due respect, we have pills for obesity and computers think. If that doesn’t get you excited about the future, nothing will.

In the immortal words of Fangbaby, I want my fucking hover car. No excitement for the future till then.

(Song obviously nsfw without headphones.)

https://www.jamendo.com/track/46940/hovercar/lyrics

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by nosioptar »

hellcow wrote: post #947
cryo32 wrote: post #140

I suspect that these prices are going to seriously dent sales. RAM is getting crushed. I bet the next step is going to be dumb terminals and centralisation onto all the hardware that the cloud companies bought up for AI and found wasn't possible to get any ROI out. Bezos was all over that already. We are truly entering the dark ages of personal computing.

I'm hoping for a renewed focus on writing software that runs well on constrained machines and helps people get many more years of useful life out of their existing computers.

I'd love that. I'd also love to see the Jets win the super bowl. Pretty sure neither happens in my lifetime.
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