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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Dalewyn on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:57AM (#35422729)
That combined with the best speakers you will ever hear in a laptop, keyboard and touchpad you know will be at least decent (ye olde butterfly notwithstanding), the steep price tag kind of sort of starts to partially make a bit more sense.

The price is still stupid, but a potential customer not needing to give a crap about his new computer might just make the steep price worth it.

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by ricardobayes on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:59AM (#35423671)
Why would I care about laptop speakers? 1600 EUR gives me plenty of room to get a normal laptop, Harman-kardon soundsticks plus top-end Sennheiser headphones. No matter how good laptop speakers are, they won't even be near the ones mentioned.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by rcarmo on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:10AM (#35423858)
You've clearly never sat on a couch with a Mac on your lap.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by nsteel on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:49AM (#35424569)
The speakers on a mac are better than headphones? ...REALLY?!
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by mgraupner on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:55AM (#35424665)
The point was that the combined value of all these features are rarely matched in any other laptop in this price range. Superior speakers were just one of the things.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by nsteel on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:53PM (#35430290)
Sure, I get the general point, but that isn't where it went. It went into the usual tiresome mac hyperbole.
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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by Dylan16807 on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:41PM (#35432368)
You're the one that changed "near" to "better" out of nowhere.

But I think they were also talking about the overall convenience-quality tradeoff.

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Re:Apple Halted M2 Chip Production in January Amid 'Plummeti... by sys_64738 on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:59PM (#35433170)
You need speakers to drown out the noisy fan?
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