• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Base priced Macbook Air is $1099. That’s pretty relative to a lot of the competition. You can definitely find better deals, but let’s not pretend it’s more expensive than everything else in its class.

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      1 year ago

      Are we defining class by relative power and capabilities? Cause if so, yeah Apple is absolutely overpriced.

      I can almost guarantee you a more powerful machine of similar size and weight exists for 750-900 bucks outside of the Apple ecosystem. You’re paying for the shiny metal construction and the name.

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        1 year ago

        You won’t get anything with as good build quality for that price and performance. You also won’t be able to match the battery life, due to bad firmware/software.

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          1 year ago

          In general you’re pretty hard pressed to find a laptop that is all around as solid as a Macbook. Macbooks do pretty well across all categories… Good battery life, performance, screen, build quality, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, weight, size, etc… It’s hard to find a competitor that provides close to as good of an experience on all factors at the same time. I don’t have a Macbook at the moment because I prefer to run Linux and got my last laptop before the M1 came out… But it feels pretty hard to justify staying in Lenovo land these days.

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      1 year ago

      I can get a decent windows or linux laptop for like $500. Each of the last two I got were in the $400 range, and they are still in use 3 and 5 years later. Plus I can easily upgrade the ram and ssd on those to further extend the lifespan.

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      1 year ago

      If you want a usable device with 16gb ram and a 512gb SSD it’s $1400 which is $300 (27% stupid tax) more than a comparable dell. Although I will admit the M1 chip in it will probably perform better at certain tasks.