Wait … this is your first recession indicator?
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Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
I don’t get the hype from tech bros for the ‘neo’, it’s a laptop powered by a phone chip sold for the price of a one with a decent dGPU.
Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 18 hours ago
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
No? Where did you get that from? There’s an ‘a’ there not ‘the’
TehPers@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.
One of the few, I take it?
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
The 9800X3D is a desktop chip, so I don’t think it’s relevant here. We are talking about a complete mobile device after all, not parts.
In my country, for around 800$ equivalent, you can buy a used business laptop with long battery life and enoguh performance for web browsing, video playback, and office work. The cheapest macbook neo I found in my country is also around that price (820$), and the better configuration is about 900$.
For the lower price, I could get:
All of them have more ports the the neo, use standard SSDs, and don’t come from a companie that is one of the most hostile to consumer rights and right to repair .
One of many. What I meant (and should have said, instead of being vague) is that I don’t expect this to be a real shift in policy, but rather a way to maintain profits when people have less disposable income, and I fully expect Apple to keep lobbing against right to repair, even when releasing ‘repairable’ devices.