Why? They are making high profit margins with current manufacturing costs...
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Why? They are making high profit margins with current manufacturing costs...
Profit margin is the % profit you make per sale. If you reduce the sale cost but leave the manufacturing cost the same your profit margin goes down regardless of the number of items you sell.
That didn't work yesterday. It isn't working today. It's not going to work tomorrow.
Indeed, that's where the term apple tax came from, its not a new term at all.
I also think that you get what you pay for, and I don't mind paying a little extra for something that works, is well designed and high quality.
when the new MBP gets released..say September or October
the education discount will be up right? So pretty much theres no way to get a discount on Haswell MBPs
the education discount will be up right? So pretty much theres no way to get a discount on Haswell MBPs
The education discount is always in effect. The iTunes gift card promo will probably be over by then though.
Apple did cut prices on the rMBP in February. Granted, Apple PR is not going to come out and put out a statement "XX competitor forced us to do it". But you can read what you want to, in terms of motivation, when Apple reduces prices on a current "premium" laptop..
Been gone for a while, but here ya go
Not quite 15 but still being used daily as an actual computer!
Thread revival!
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Why? It there were a possibility to pay less, wouldn't you try it? We are in an era where internet and social networks could join forces, target a common benefit, and reverse monopolies...
No we are not. We are in an era where people complain online like it matters and 99% of the people don't care. Can't afford a rMBP, get a second part time job instead of using energy on something so silly.
Don't buy it. Look what happened to the Facebook phone 
Seriously though I'm waiting for refurbished 13in rmbp to go down a bit more. Or if the haswell chipset get close to 13hr battery life then I'm in!
Seriously though I'm waiting for refurbished 13in rmbp to go down a bit more. Or if the haswell chipset get close to 13hr battery life then I'm in!
I didn't ask for an actual computer, but specifically a full fledged computer.
This one is running as an apple script server only.
Nice try though.
Meh, I stand corrected. Remind me not to use broad generalizations as much!
Though that computer (quoted) is in a grey area between full fledged (daily) use and novelty. Kind of hanging on by a thread...I have found a couple threads though with 10 year old computers though where the OP seems to use it as a daily (pretty crazy). This, for example, is pretty recent. Maybe there's some guy out there running an old Mac as a daily, I for one don't want to search that far...
Just saying that some people use *really* old stuff and don't seem to care about newer stuff... Now, how did I get so off topic??
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Meh, I stand corrected. Remind me not to use broad generalizations as much!
I have found a couple threads though with 10 year old computers though where the OP seems to use it as a daily (pretty crazy). This, for example, is pretty recent. Maybe there's some guy out there running an old Mac as a daily, I for one don't want to search that far...
Just saying that some people use *really* old stuff and don't seem to care about newer stuff... Now, how did I get so off topic??
LOL. Yes I still use my Late 2007 17" MBP/2.6Ghz/4GB/Hi-res 1920x1200 antiglare
. Apple replaced the motherboard for free, so it looks like new now .I think I am going to upgrade soon and will likely build a Hackintosh Custom Pro which features a Intel Ivy Bridge-E i7-4930K 6 cores/12 threads and Nvidia GTX 660 or 670, 32GB RAM (Up to 64GB). Total Hackintosh build cost would be likely $1500
. It would be fun to compare benchmarks... . I don't expect less than 20000 with GeekBench 