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That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Post by tdkl »

bluedino wrote: post #14
mberning wrote: post #3

I have no idea how the two points in the article are the only takeaway the author had. On point one, Apple has never been the cheapest at anything. Although they have been offering more low end options as of late they are still not a 'budget' manufacturer and likely never will be. On point two, it is absolutly possible that a 5 year old machine still runs fine. Depending on the machine! A 5 year old macbook pro is st…

My mother has been using exactly that - a 4 year old black Friday Acer laptop. 2 years in, she complained that it was painfully slow so I stuck an SSD and an extra 2GB of RAM in it. This past year the trackpad quit working, so we connected an old USB mouse. Finally for Christmas I bought an iPad Mini for $199. It's so much smaller than the 15.6" laptop she had, so much easier to use, turns on/off instantly, the batte…

Good luck using that Mini for 4 years, when iOS runs worse and worse on it. You could mend that with more RAM, but hey that kind of luxury ain't "the Apple way".

Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Post by the_af »

Udo wrote: post #20
widdershins wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As far as I can see, Apple 'get' the different use cases better than some others in the industry. That's why they've been reluctant to add touch screen to their laptops as Microsoft have done, because they don't see it being useful. I think this was just an ill-judged offhand comment. P.S. I'm typing this on an 2010 MBP which, with an SSD upgrade, still works beautifully.

> I think this was just an ill-judged offhand comment. I don't think you have provided sufficient information as to why you think my comment was bad. You say the 'get' different use cases better than most in the industry, and that used to be something I agree with. However, this effect is shrinking, at least as far as my personal needs are concerned - which is admittedly anecdotal. > P.S. I'm typing this on an 2010 M…

I think the parent poster meant this was "just an ill-judged offhand comment" on Schiller's part, not you :)

Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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the_af wrote: post #22
Udo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think this was just an ill-judged offhand comment. I don't think you have provided sufficient information as to why you think my comment was bad. You say the 'get' different use cases better than most in the industry, and that used to be something I agree with. However, this effect is shrinking, at least as far as my personal needs are concerned - which is admittedly anecdotal. > P.S. I'm typing this on an 2010 M…

I think the parent poster meant this was "just an ill-judged offhand comment" on Schiller's part, not you :)

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Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Post by ghaff »

tdkl wrote: post #21
bluedino wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mother has been using exactly that - a 4 year old black Friday Acer laptop. 2 years in, she complained that it was painfully slow so I stuck an SSD and an extra 2GB of RAM in it. This past year the trackpad quit working, so we connected an old USB mouse. Finally for Christmas I bought an iPad Mini for $199. It's so much smaller than the 15.6" laptop she had, so much easier to use, turns on/off instantly, the batte…

Good luck using that Mini for 4 years, when iOS runs worse and worse on it. You could mend that with more RAM, but hey that kind of luxury ain't "the Apple way".

My dad still uses my old first gen iPad and it does everything he needs it to do. It's been the greatest gift (for me) ever. He was never comfortable using PCs and I do FAR less tech support than I used to.

Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Post by 21 »

rockshassa wrote: post #12

I just can't bring myself to feel the author's anger, in any capacity. He wants to position this as a jab against those who build their own PCs, but that is utterly irrelevant. What percentage of those 600 million five-year-old PCs do you really think are being thoughtfully maintained by modders? Does the author realize that most people do not want the responsibility of maintaining their own hardware? Or that they do…

Windows 10 has cloud storage which it enables by default. While not as smooth yet as a tablet, it's a step towards solving the grandma problem.

My mother has an 8 year old computer, and Windows 10 runs just fine on it.

Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Post by brodney »

neonhomer wrote: post #18
rockshassa wrote: post #12

I just can't bring myself to feel the author's anger, in any capacity. He wants to position this as a jab against those who build their own PCs, but that is utterly irrelevant. What percentage of those 600 million five-year-old PCs do you really think are being thoughtfully maintained by modders? Does the author realize that most people do not want the responsibility of maintaining their own hardware? Or that they do…

Those some good points, but if some one is living paycheck to paycheck they still can't afford a new device. Also iCloud backup only does so much data before it costs something, so that could be another additional cost that some people are not going to be able to afford.

iCloud backup costs $0.99 for 50GB of space. It's basically free.

Re: That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people

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Post by bennyg »

tdkl wrote: post #21
bluedino wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My mother has been using exactly that - a 4 year old black Friday Acer laptop. 2 years in, she complained that it was painfully slow so I stuck an SSD and an extra 2GB of RAM in it. This past year the trackpad quit working, so we connected an old USB mouse. Finally for Christmas I bought an iPad Mini for $199. It's so much smaller than the 15.6" laptop she had, so much easier to use, turns on/off instantly, the batte…

Good luck using that Mini for 4 years, when iOS runs worse and worse on it. You could mend that with more RAM, but hey that kind of luxury ain't "the Apple way".

Can you replace the RAM in a Surface or a GalaxyTab?
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