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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by thethethethe on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:29AM (#23069182)
Have you ever been to a FAANG campus? There are thousands of engineers walking around with MacBooks. I’m pretty sure those engineers would be considered to be professional
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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by neuronic on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:19PM (#23069895)
Where it doesn't matter that the maxed out specs at which point you can call the machine "Pro" cost something like €3000?

I'm sorry, but 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD with 2 USB-C ports and jet engine fans aren't really that "Pro".

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by thethethethe on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:06PM (#23070551)
You are moving the goalposts. So the high end version of the laptop is “pro” but the cheaper one isn’t? Doesn’t this follow for other similar ultra books?

Why does a computer have to be cheap-ish to be “pro”?

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Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro by neuronic on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:48AM (#23089052)
Because it carries the "Pro" label. Why not just call it Macbook then? Why release what is essentially 2 products under one label, confusing consumers. It's predatory because Apple charges way too much for way too little when it comes to the Intel Gen8 models of the 2020 MBP.
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