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It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
Expensive now? A Quadra 950 in 1992 had a starting price of $7200 (1992 dollars) and that didn't include any hard drive. That's almost $13000 or more than €11000 today for the basically empty base model before several thousand more to upgrade RAM and add storage.
A review where it's not being compared against other laptops but against older macs is only marginally useful. Of course it's going to be faster. The problem with Mac is not that it's slow, it's the lack of innovation.
Is the MacBook Air dead, then? Light and powerful isn't a valid niche anymore?
It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
2300 / 0.73 * 0.86 = ~2710
2300 / 0.73 * 0.95 = ~2993
It would appear that currency fluctuations account for a significant portion of that price difference that you're seeing.
So they’ve caught up to Windows laptops on specs but still have that abomination of a keyboard. After all the complaints.
Is the MacBook Air dead, then? Light and powerful isn't a valid niche anymore?
Is the MacBook Air dead, then? Light and powerful isn't a valid niche anymore?
It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten. I paid around €2300 for my 2014 15” and today’s equivalent tier is over €3k. For this I get a faster thinner machine without MagSafe and a variety of ports. It seems that the only viable upgrade path is to convince your employer to stump up the cash.
> It’s shocking how expensive Macs have gotten Expensive now? A Quadra 950 in 1992 had a starting price of $7200 (1992 dollars) and that didn't include any hard drive. That's almost $13000 or more than €11000 today for the basically empty base model before several thousand more to upgrade RAM and add storage.
Also Apple seems to be the first laptop producer to raise prices instead of lowering them. In 2010, I could get a MacBook for 1000 euros. The equivalent laptop upgraded to today's standards would cost 2-3 times that.
It is nice to see some keyboard and screen improvements though. I am looking forward to mine arriving on the 26th and will write up a review from a software developer perspective if I get the time.