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Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative by freehunter on Sunday December 11, 2016 @01:49PM (#13152449)
Isn't everything just pushing costs further down the road? Eventually you'll have to get a new machine anyway. If the current one works for you, it's kind of crazy to reject it just because you'll have to buy something else in a few years.

I fully expect that some day Toyota will stop making my car. But I'm perfectly happy driving it anyway, because it's still being made today, and it was made when I bought it. Does that make sense? Because saying "The Corolla will stop being made some day in the future, so I'm going to buy a Camaro now" doesn't make any sense at all to me.

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Re:My search for a MacBook Pro alternative by eropple on Sunday December 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#13154295)
The choice isn't "this machine or that machine." It's "stay on the same platform or incur greater switching costs later." It is a question of ecosystems, and one only gets more enmeshed with more use. There's nothing crazy about deciding whether to rip off the band-aid now rather than create more of a sunk cost to deal with later.
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