News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner. Parent comment

Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner by sliverstorm on Sunday August 26, 2012 @10:25PM (#4437134)
A key counterpoint to the "put money into things that matter" idea is "but don't put unreasonable amounts of money into those things".

In other words, it doesn't rationalize spending $10,000 on a laptop if the $1,000 model is 99% as good.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Retina MacBook Pro review as a Mac Pro owner by robryan on Sunday August 26, 2012 @10:36PM (#4437167)
I think it depends, obviously if it really were 99% as good it is a no brainer, a $4000 laptop that you value say 30% more could well be worth it. If you are bringing in 100k+ a year mostly using your laptop the $4000 figure is really quite insignificant in the long run.
[ Parent | on HN ]