Re:Intel says get ready for $99 tablets, $299 Haswell notebo...
by derefr on Thursday October 17, 2013 @01:28AM
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"Performance per dollar" is a strange qualifier for a laptop. If you want something small, portable, and powerful, maybe one of those Mac Pro cylinders might suit you when they come out. If you don't (much) care about portability at all, just build something in a mini-ITX case with a handle, and throw it in the boot of your car.
The point of a laptop is good, light, sturdy industrial design, long battery life, and quality interaction features (solid keyboard, responsive touchpad, good webcam, flat SPL curve on speakers, etc.), while optimizing performance given that. That's what you're paying the Apple premium for, not the OS. Those qualities remain when you run Windows on the hardware.
Don't get me wrong, the MBP does look nice. And plenty of people are clearly willing to throw lots of money at Apple for both the real and perceived benefits of the premium price. But if performance per dollar is my concern --and I'm forgoing the operating system, one of the "real" benefits IMHO-- numerous other competitors blow Apple out of the water.