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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by luma on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @09:12PM (#38093451)
Did you buy a macbook for $700? That was a pretty low price back then which meant you were buying devices made to a price. Buying a Macbook is one solution, another would have been to spend more money on a higher quality Wintel system.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by andrewprock on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:53PM (#38102100)
No, it was around $1100 IIRC, maybe as much as $1300.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by luma on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @01:57PM (#38102166)
Right, so when spend twice as much you wind up with a better device. I think this might be only tangentially related to the fact that it was an Apple product, rather, you weren't purchasing the cheapest available device.
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Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c... by andrewprock on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @02:16PM (#38102477)
Ten years ago Apple was by far the highest quality laptop manufacturer. There was essentially no other option back in the early 2010s. Even now laptops with a "retina" display are not always easy to find for other manufacturers. In retrospect, that was probably the killer feature which induced me to switch.
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