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[–] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (49 children)

The close competition? For the price of a MacBook you could get a beefy ass PC.

[–] scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (18 children)

That’s not apples to apples. If you spec a windows laptop, good luck getting the same performance and the same battery life and portability at the same price. Also build quality, screen, speaker and trackpad quality will likely not be at apples level from the windows machine. If that’s what you’re in the market for Apple machines are not bad. For instance a photographer/videographer working on location, truly amazing for them. Should everyone buy one? No. Are there a 100 better ways to spend the money if you don’t have that specific Apple favoured use case. Sure, e.g. your mum doesn’t need a MacBook Pro for Facebook / Amazon browsing and your cousin shouldn’t buy a Mac Studio for gaming. But use cases do exist, and for those people Macs are genuinely a good proposition.

[–] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I'm willing to bet you could find a laptop with a really nice track pad, screen and camera if you really wanted to for half the price. Everything "quality" about Mac is double the price just for having an apple logo on it.

[–] scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awe, getting sad I'm talking bad about your apple cult lol

[–] scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hardly. Not bothering to evidence your claim then?

[–] Stinkywinks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
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