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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.

Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

One of the few, I take it?

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Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨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:

a thinkpad t480 with multiple batteries (hot swappable) and 32GB SO-DIMM RAM

a latitude 7420 with 11th gen intel with 32GB soldered RAM, a ultraportable like the neo

a thinkpad t14 gen 2 with 11th gen intel or ryzen 5000 and 48GB RAM (one SO-DIMM slot, and one soldered module)

or if the size format didn’t matter a thinkpad p52 with 64GB RAM and a 90Wh swappable battery If I went with the higher-spec price, I could get a thinkpad p53 with a quadro RTX 4000 and 32 GB RAM, 512 GB ssd, and a Pantone-calibrated display.

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 the few, I take it?

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.
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