Introducing the next generation of Mac

Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by helsinkiandrew on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:14AM (#25056191)

The vast majority of laptops in the $999 range are bought by people that only need "devices that only my mother would use"

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by winrid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:17AM (#25056200)

A bit out of touch I think. All the midde age mothers I know personally buy $300 laptops from Walmart.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by SifJar on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:58AM (#25056733)

I think the point was that the people who buy the $999 laptops would be fine with the $300 laptops

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by helsinkiandrew on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:10AM (#25057384)

Exactly - I'd guess the majority of Macbook Airs are used for surfing, email, writing a presentation etc. not developing.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by winrid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:35PM (#25063305)

For this 8gb is fine though right? I get the idea - we want Apple to push the bar. But my 2011 4gb MacBook Air with Catalina does those things fine... swapping to an SSD is reasonably fast.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by helsinkiandrew on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:02AM (#25067242)

Yes - I'm developing on an 8gb 2013 MacBook Air - I'd like more RAM, but it is about doable.

But in general MacBook Airs are not developer or video editing machines and they're not speced for that.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by winrid on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @04:34PM (#25063292)

Ah! Then yes I agree.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by BatteryMountain on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:27AM (#25056239)

Not true at all. Maybe in the US but not elsewhere. I know more than a few developers that work on sub $999 laptops/machines. Specifically Dell/Lenovo laptops seems to be the go to, since they can get them with 16GB RAM + 1TB hdd + non-discrete gfx, then they just swap out the hdd with 256/512GB ssd.

About half of all my dev friends have given up on laptops (specifically apple gear, incl iPhone) and ALL of them built ryzen-based machines and work from home. My previous workplace refused to buy us laptops and built typical workstation PC's for everyone (quadcore i5 + 16GB RAM + 256GB ssd + 1TB hdd, this was around 2017). The guys that do have iPad's tend to hang on to them but swapped their iPhones with Android phones when they ditched their MacBooks. Main complaint? Ports & (Performance vs Price vs (ryzen pc with same price)).

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by helsinkiandrew on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:48AM (#25090710)

I didn't say that developers don't buy $999 laptops I said that the majority of $999 laptops are bought by non developers.

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