This is a non-sensical argument.
that 3 year old computer at $1,000 SHOULDN'T cost $1000 today just because it's stilL "Good Enough". especially when technology constantly moves forward. So while Apple's MacBook air is still selling a 3 generation old CPU, with a 6 year old display technology might be "Good enough" for many users, it's price to performance and quality to what you get elsewhere is quite honestly, Pathetic.
Considering that as these things age, the products should be cheaper. not stay the same. As the MacBook Air is still using 3 year old generation of CPU's, the cost to manufacture (due to improvements of manufacturing)
Simply put, continuing to use 3 year old hardware, and keeping the prices high is really only a profit driven thing and has nothing to do with the actual quality of the devices. if you were to go buy a high end Windows laptop with the same components age in it, you'll find them for deep discount at this point.
So not only is Apple not discounting their old hardware to move it. They're not even updating it to more modern hardware.
Disagree. As I said
here, how is the "performance and quality" so much better with newer chips than with 3 year old chips? Being offended by pricing without considering actual potential buyers is foolish.
The newest 15W/28W CPUs are barely better than their equivalents 5-6 years ago. For word, excel, powerpoint, audio creation and editing, photo manipulation, compiling code, graphic creation, internet browsing, they offer imperceptible improvement. So why clamor for them? Especially in a portable computer. It would be another thing if this thread was about iMacs, Mac Pros, or Mac Minis. But where the primary design consideration is portability and power efficiency - what has really improved in the last 5 years?
The only areas where there is improvement is video. Encoding and decoding is faster. Specifically, the hardware enabled HEVC encoding and decoding that allows for very fast 4k video processing. So if I worked in video editing or creation, I would want the newer chips. But everyone else... meh.
If someone has a 2008 Macbook, and they want to upgrade today, then who cares if the current Macbook Air has "3 year old hardware?" It still runs macOS and pretty much every macOS app better than anyone can reasonably hope for. It's still a brand new computer that fits their needs today.
If someone has a 2015 Macbook Air today, why would they even want to upgrade to a new Macbook Air? They should just keep their perfectly good and still very fast Macbook Air. Battery issues can be easily repaired, as I said.
Comparing to Windows is always silly. Yea, Windows PCs have always had more current hardware for lower prices. But they run a poorly designed and bloated OS with a registry system that gets perpetually slower as time goes on, typically used crappy fake brushed metal plastic chassis, have bad touchpads, and have crappy battery life and battery calibration. All of that is still true today. If you want a Windows PC with a good metal chassis, good battery life, good touchpad, and a non-bloated OS, then you'll be paying close to Apple prices anyway and spending time uninstalling the bloat.
And anyway, you will never have the full macOS experience on a Windows PC. I like that my laptop can answer iphone calls, shares copy and paste, and can wirelessly drop photo and files from laptop to iphone. Having a newer CPU isn't going to change any of that.
