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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by davnicwil on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:46AM (#19430716)
Hasn't Apple always been more of a 'pretty good hardware, nicely integrated and packaged, for a premium price' proposition? I personally can't remember a time when this wasn't so.

Not sure outside their exhibition pieces which nobody really buys (10k fully specced mac pros etc) they've ever been going to market with a 'best hardware in class' story, have they?

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by lagerstedt on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:19AM (#19430998)
You are right, but for a while this was not true. When Apple switched to x86 the MacBook was competitively priced. I remember buying one because it was cheaper than comparable PCs.
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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by thirdsun on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:43AM (#19440432)
It depends. Their SSDs are state of the art and among the fastest you can get. Their 5K display still hasn't any serious alternatives. Their own mobile (for now) CPUs are pretty much unmatched.

Most other desktop components can obviously be found in various PCs as well.

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Re:Apple updates its iMac line by jimbokun on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @05:19PM (#19436027)
"pretty good hardware"

This is the part they gave up on, while keeping the other two.

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