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Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by wesleyd »

wesleyd wrote: post #911
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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…

Humans seem to be wired to weigh negative news much more strongly than positive news. (The most plausible hypothesis I’ve found for this is that bad news - fire, predators nearby - has historically been much more likely to kill you than good news to benefit you, so we are descended from people who over-weighed bad news, and survived to reproduce.) Modern media seems to really lean into this. All takes on everything a…

Oh, oh, one of the best things I've ever read on this topic is: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/reading-the-news-is-t...

I should submit this to HN, in fact. It doesn't seem to have ever been submitted.

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by jingpostmedia »

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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.

And it isn’t the 1st time they increased it, also PlayStation. Microsoft said ram/storage increased prices 2.5x since late 25 and they expect it to increase another 2.5x by late 27.

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Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by james33 »

I feel sick to my stomach. Been saving up all year for a new 16" M5 Max to replace my M1 Max in July (I do indie game dev, so I routinely use everything it can give). It was already a was already a big stretch at $6k, now it's completely out of reach at $8k. There's no world where I can justify that price even if I could afford it.

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Post by Grazester »

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M2 is 3 years old and not sold by Apple anymore.

The MBA m2 is still highly capable though! I upgraded to M5 air and use both daily and the M2 holds its own.

...And that wasn't the point OP was arguing

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by oxzidized »

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I looked recently and a new Macbook 128gb ram was £5500 which was expensive for me but I could consider it! Now it’s £7000 which is absolutely ridiculous. AI is useful but it’s sucking everything out of the economy and destroying it at the same time…

It's really not that useful for the vast majority of people if we are being honest

Yes, based on my personal experience, it is much more harmful than helpful to the majority. Most seem to be determined to completely replace their need to think, as opposed to just supplementing or augmenting their thinking with AI.

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Post by ricardobayes »

james33 wrote: post #924

I feel sick to my stomach. Been saving up all year for a new 16" M5 Max to replace my M1 Max in July (I do indie game dev, so I routinely use everything it can give). It was already a was already a big stretch at $6k, now it's completely out of reach at $8k. There's no world where I can justify that price even if I could afford it.

You know what's extremely good value right now? The old "space bin" Mac Pros. You could get a maxed out one for less than 1k - 128GB RAM and with the dual D700 GPU's those produce around 12GB VRAM too. I've been eyeing these for local LLM purposes. To be fair the jump between the M1 Max and M5 is not that big in real usage, unless you're absolutely memory bound on the M1 - the M1 is likely to be supported for a few years more...

Re: Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

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Post by james33 »

ricardobayes wrote: post #928
james33 wrote: post #924

I feel sick to my stomach. Been saving up all year for a new 16" M5 Max to replace my M1 Max in July (I do indie game dev, so I routinely use everything it can give). It was already a was already a big stretch at $6k, now it's completely out of reach at $8k. There's no world where I can justify that price even if I could afford it.

You know what's extremely good value right now? The old "space bin" Mac Pros. You could get a maxed out one for less than 1k - 128GB RAM and with the dual D700 GPU's those produce around 12GB VRAM too. I've been eyeing these for local LLM purposes. To be fair the jump between the M1 Max and M5 is not that big in real usage, unless you're absolutely memory bound on the M1 - the M1 is likely to be supported for a few y…

I have to have a laptop with how I work, unfortunately. And yeah, I really need more RAM and particularly GPU power, so the M5 Max would have been a very big improvement for my workflow.

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Post by pembrook »

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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…

Ah yes ! You should have said that to the 10 000 people who died while trying to migrate to another country, due to drone wars, financial crisis and climate change. [1] And you should also have said that to the Congolese children who died while mining for the natural resources used to produce components for the AI datacenters. And yes, the future we're living in is wonderful for the 50 millions slaves all around the…

Cool, compared to what?

Nobody is saying "everything is exactly perfect for every person on earth."

There's never been a time in history when that was true and there never will be a time when that will be true.

The point is you live in the most comfortable/easy/least violent/most democratic/longest lifespan/best healthcare/best technology/best educated/etc. time to be alive in all of human history.

On top of that, if you're on this website, according to similarweb you're one of the highest income and most educated people on the planet (you're the 1%).

So you're likely in the 0.005% luckiest humans to ever live, and yet you're pessimistic because some media channel preyed upon your empathy or fears of change to capture your attention so they can monetize it selling ads for toilet bowl cleaner.

The truth is some people just have a negative emotional disposition. Others have genuine issues in their lives they need to change. In all cases there are actions, medications and therapies for you. Seek help.

Pretending you're so virtuous as to care about all the worlds problems and yet also powerless to do anything about them is simply a giant excuse to never actually do anything but complain and contribute nothing to humanity.

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