How many of each will you be buying at the reduced prices?
I'm all in on the iPad Pro lifestyle. It is the future of Mac.
How many of each will you be buying at the reduced prices?
It's criminal people still buy Mac Pro.
Seemed sarcastic to me.No. What is wrong with celebrating a price reduction?
It is good news for consumers.
I bought a 512GB WD Black NVMe and threw it in my old desktop for $180 CAD. I get around 3300MB/sec read and 2500MB/sec write. My Asus laptop has a 512GB NVMe (not sure what brand) and is a bit slower at around 2400MB/sec read... can't really tell the difference though once you get a certain speed in day to day use. NVMe in the rest of the PC world are pretty cheap compared to what Apple charges. It should NOT cost $250 more to upgrade a MacBook air from 256GB to 512GB SSD, maybe $100 would be more realistic... even $150 at most.Crucials SSD are nowhere near as fast as Apples.
I can buy a 2TB USB3 hard drive for $60, and I don’t even need to deal with opening up the computer. Don’t understand what’s your point.You can buy a Crucial 1TB SSD for $135 and replace it yourself. But Apple solders their SSDs in, so nope, you can’t do that. Gotta pay $800 if you want it.
Does Apple have that option to save $700? Which I could buy another laptop with that and comes with a ssd for that price.A 1TB SATA SSD, bottlenecked at 6Gb/s. If you're comparing apples to apples, at least use the NVMe 970 Pros which have comparative performance.
You can buy a Crucial 1TB SSD for $135 and replace it yourself. But Apple solders their SSDs in, so nope, you can’t do that. Gotta pay $800 if you want it.
Since my display is connected through one go those ports, and other uses are made of the other ports, I have a hub plugged into one of the ports. A cable connects a SSD through the hub any time I need to back up data. The Time Machine uses one of the 4 drives in a 4-bay device.Oh good, an adjustment from eye-wateringly outrageously we're having a laugh insane to eye-wateringly outrageously insane. I got a 256GB Mini and hung a 1TB SSD out of one of those USB C slots. This obviously wouldn't affect that decision.
Correcto mundo.So the price of the upgrades that people would actually buy remain unchanged. Got it.
Really?No, but I know which one I’d prefer to keep my data on...still bloody expensive upgrades though!
I can buy a 2TB USB3 hard drive for $60, and I don’t even need to deal with opening up the computer. Don’t understand what’s your point.
I just picked up a Surface Pro 6 with Alcantara keyboard for $799.99 to replace wife’s 2013 MBA. We looked at the 2018 Air, but it was horribly overpriced for a slow dual core chip. The Mac lineup is not very competitive with the Surface line at the moment. Just replaced my 2015 MacBook Pro with a Surface Book 2 as well. Tim Apple has got to go.
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Apple is losing a lot of Mac users who CAN afford their stuff, because their price performance ratio is horrible ATM. Back in the day MacOS was way better than Windows 7/8, but Windows 10 has closed the gap considerably while Apple has done very little with OS X. Paying the Apple tax for low powered (oftentimes outdated) hardware no longer makes sense.
So what is your point then?Well if you don't get the difference between internal SSD and an external spinning HDD, then you're right, you don't understand.
Even a cheaply upgraded 4,1 or 5,1 beats the Trashcan. What a joke.Not sure why anyone would even consider the trashcan Mac Pro (even with this price reduction for RAM) when even the current 5K iMac comes with a 9th generation Intel Core i9-9900K 8-core CPU that smokes it. Even the Vega 48 should destroy whatever GPU it has (don't care to check).
It's nice to have. It's not like the CPU where they truly don't benefit from it (their tasks are usually I/O-bound).But do really consumers need those fast and expensive ssds? In macbook air, doubt it