Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
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Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#2I still use my 2009 MBP. I upgraded to an SSD drive and 8 gigs of ram. I don't game on it, but I can do almost all of my development on it. I'll admit it's slower then my 2013 MPB at work, but I see no reason to spend more money on a working computer.
My second computer is a Chromebook. My oldest daughter uses it for school work and we couldn't be happier. It's much better then our iPad (which we don't use anymore).
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#3As someone sitting at a nearly 5 year old Macbook Pro, I took the comment as an off hand throwaway. I understand not liking the comment, but this isn't news. A company thinks everyone should be using the latest of their products. Oh no.
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#4I don't understand how the author went from the guy saying it's "really sad" to "Apple is insulting people". I mean even his first argument on why people don't upgrade IS actually sad since they can't afford to do that. I know it is because I'm one of those people who can't afford to upgrade my machine.
/rant typed on a 5 year old Asus N53SV.
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#5I think I have a rusty, almost 5 year old PC lying around. It has an Intel i7-2600K overclocked to 4.6 GHz, 24 GB RAM, 240G SSD and a Radeon 6950 GPU that can run most games well in fHD.
Most of the machines Apple sells are actually slower than this PC.
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#6As someone sitting at a nearly 5 year old Macbook Pro, I took the comment as an off hand throwaway. I understand not liking the comment, but this isn't news. A company thinks everyone should be using the latest of their products. Oh no.
There are two articles about this non-story on the first page of HN. What a joke
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#7I think I have a rusty, almost 5 year old PC lying around. It has an Intel i7-2600K overclocked to 4.6 GHz, 24 GB RAM, 240G SSD and a Radeon 6950 GPU that can run most games well in fHD. Most of the machines Apple sells are actually slower than this PC.
That's a great exception to the rule. The overwhelming majority of computers Apple is talking about, are probably shitty $400 PCs that were underpowered from day one, which are just barely chugging along.
Because that is actually what most people buy.
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#8I built a desktop PC almost exactly five years ago.
- Intel Core i5 2500K, 3.3 GHz, quad-core (200 USD)
- 8B (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz C9 (100 USD)
- 120GB 2.5" SSD Intel X25-M G2 (200 USD)
- GeForce GTX 460 1GB (200 USD)
It's sad that a full five years later, CPU performance/USD has barely moved at all. RAM is half the cost now, SSDs a quarter the cost. Not sure about how GPUs have developed?
(Edit: The GTX 960 which today also costs 200 USD seems to be about twice as fast as the GTX 460.)
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#9This is classic trolling, plain and simple.
The head of marketing thinks that using a competitor's product is "sad".
In response, this article calls Apple: "Insensitive". Offensive. "Hypocritical". "Insulting". And worst of all, promoting inequality by building high quality, expensive products and forgetting the needs of the poor.
It's an article designed to produce a response.
Re: Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
#10I agree that this was tone-deaf of them, I just find it fascinating that we picked this one instance of tech industry rich guy tone-deafness. Seems to be getting a lot of play for some reason. But it's everywhere if you look.