Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dingaling on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:32AM (#25067080)

> The average user was spending peanuts on phone before iPhone.

The iPhone was mid-range at launch, $499 versus $730 for a contemporary smartphone like the N95

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by bredren on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:07AM (#25067268)

This was not what it felt like when it debuted.

Blackberry was the competing “smart” phone [1] and the newest releases were we under half the price of iPhone w the same 2-year discount.

I had the blackberry curve myself at that time and iPhone seemed way high-priced.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2007/07/25/iphone-v-blackberry-side-b...

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by Nullabillity on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:09AM (#25067947)

Guess it depends on the region. Here in Sweden I saw a few N95s and of Sony Ericsson and Nokia feature phones. Not a single Blackberry in sight, before or after.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by lmm on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:26AM (#25067371)

The way I remember it the iphone-with-2-year-contract price was very similar to the buy-outright price for other phones. Are you definitely comparing the same contracts?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by theptip on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:03AM (#25071236)

But most users were on feature phones at the time. The iPhone 1 was expensive.

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