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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:51PM (#20397544)
I think you're right. In Europe macs are not used as tools for professionals, but as toys for rich kids. You never see macbooks in any company unless they are an Apple shop but if you go in the old town center, in the most hipster cafes, you only see youths with macs.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by bgeeek on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:06PM (#20397677)
That is utter nonsense. The university research group that I worked in replaced Dell Linux-based laptops for Macbooks. Hardly toys for rich kids.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by b212 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:32PM (#20397843)
I’ve seen homeless people in Copenhagen using Macs. It literally blew my mind.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by mattigames on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @09:03PM (#20398328)
Denmark is a different world, people just throw away something as soon as they get a better version or starts malfunctioning in the slightest way.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by mattigames on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:02PM (#20397638)
Yeah most people use it for browsing the web, syncing their iPhones and not much else; for most is a luxury item used as another success symbol, like driving a BMW or wearing Gucci belts.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by knolan on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:27PM (#20398153)
A significant number of the academics I know and work with have a MacBook of some description. They’re incredibly popular in Universities. I can run PowerPoint for teaching as well as all the *nix stuff I need for research.
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