For me I just can’t justify the cost of the Mac. They are pretty over priced. But someday when I hit the big time maybe I’ll be writing a “why I moved to the Mac” article..lol
I know, but it's at basically the same price point. I wanted to get a new phone and laptop for myself for Christmas this year (haven't updated since late 2014 / early 2015), but buying both at once is a $2k+ investment nowadays.
Yeah, current gen Macs don't really live up to their price points right now. Up until the last one, I'd say build quality and overall longevity made up for the price difference (hell, I'm still running my 2015 Mac work machine that I've run 8+ hours a day since 2016), but the lack of updated specs in the new ones makes power longevity questionable.
Modern specs with the build quality and longevity older Apple machines are known for? Sure. Old specs with build quality barely on par with other consumer laptops? Nope.
Very interesting view point. I think I completely agree with your perspective, as one who went the other back in 2008, I moved from Windows to Linux because I just wanted to get sh*t done, I do tend to agree with you. There are quite a lot of temptations and distractions with Open System of Linux, and for people like us who like to understand why sh*t works and to search for ways to break I appreciate where you're coming from!
With a name like Tim Apple, I would've thought you'd be firmly entrenched in the Mac ecosystem :-)
For me I just can’t justify the cost of the Mac. They are pretty over priced. But someday when I hit the big time maybe I’ll be writing a “why I moved to the Mac” article..lol
They're overpriced but they're gorgeous. More of a status symbol than anything else.
They are damn good looking. The new Surface Laptop 3 is pretty sexy also though.
I know, but it's at basically the same price point. I wanted to get a new phone and laptop for myself for Christmas this year (haven't updated since late 2014 / early 2015), but buying both at once is a $2k+ investment nowadays.
Heck, more than that really...closer to 3k
Yeah, with the low-voltage processor is almost twice as slow. But it looks beautiful.
Fundamentally incorrect statement. On par with HP Lenovo and other manufacturers. In its price category.
XPS - 13 $1899
10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10710U Processor
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit English
16GB LPDDR3 2133MHz On-board
512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
Similar spec Mac Pro 13” - $2499
Minus the fact the processor will be 8th gen instead of 10th.
Surface laptop 3, build quality just as good as MacBook. Again 10th gen processor $1999. Still beats it by $500.
Apple hardware is beautiful, but subpar and overpriced.
Yeah, current gen Macs don't really live up to their price points right now. Up until the last one, I'd say build quality and overall longevity made up for the price difference (hell, I'm still running my 2015 Mac work machine that I've run 8+ hours a day since 2016), but the lack of updated specs in the new ones makes power longevity questionable.
Modern specs with the build quality and longevity older Apple machines are known for? Sure. Old specs with build quality barely on par with other consumer laptops? Nope.
Very interesting view point. I think I completely agree with your perspective, as one who went the other back in 2008, I moved from Windows to Linux because I just wanted to get sh*t done, I do tend to agree with you. There are quite a lot of temptations and distractions with Open System of Linux, and for people like us who like to understand why sh*t works and to search for ways to break I appreciate where you're coming from!
With a name like Tim Apple, I would've thought you'd be firmly entrenched in the Mac ecosystem :-)
Only if Apple shares royalties with me for using my name ;-)
On the name thing...we have a Mac Siri on our team :D