I, uh, never mentioned pricing. Just use case and justification of paying that much for that much space. Very different things.
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Maxed Out 15-Inch MacBook Pro Priced at $6,699 for 2.9GHz Chip, 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD
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I use to have a time capsule drive connected via ethernet and then wirelessly accessible via my other computers but it was a slow experience but I'm sure its all come along way since then.
Are you saying with a synology NAS I could ditch all cloud services, even dropbox and keep all computers in sync with it? would Mac OS photos library live on the NAS and work with multiple computers i.e. a shared family photo library that my wife can access on her laptop?
is it also accessible if I was working away from home?
sorry for all the questions
Hahahaha.
Seriously that’s not competition.
This monstrosity weighs 10 lbs. And costs the same...with only 1 TB of storage. Ever wonder what msi's customer service would be like? This is just a purely naive comparison.
We’re going off-topic so I’m ending here but this is part of your comment. It looks very much like you mentioned pricing.
And I replied, in relation to the price.
You did not find a Windows machine for 750 Euros with the same or better specs than an MBP at 2500 Euros. If you think that, you do not know what specs you're looking at.
Soooo ignore the first part of the sentence which modifies the second? Okay.
I promise you it wouldn't have 4 TB SSD...which is half the cost...don't know why I'm bothering, you missed the most important detail of the story you're replying to.
I just built a Precision 7530 on Dell's site, it did not have anything more than 2 TB of nVME storage per drive. You can add more than one drive, if that's what you're referring to, but that's not quite the same. Not that I think you're comparing the two otherwise, but it's also 50% heavier than an MBP.
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$3000 of which is just for storage...and is the same price every competitor charges even for two separate 2 TB drives.
Let's just go ahead and clear this up.
Alienware 17: 17" screen (no 17" MBP anymore), i9 8950HK - overclock to 5.0GHz, 32GB faster 2666MHz DDR4 RAM, nVidia GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X w/ overclock, 512GB SSD, Bluetooth 5.0, ac wireless
***$3,274.99***
MacBook Pro 15" w/ i9 @4.8GHz, 32GB 2400 DDR4 RAM, Radeon Pro 560X with 4GB of GDDR5, 512GB SSD, Bluetooth 5.0, ac wireless
***$3,499***
Clearly a lesser machine for more money. Add the 4TB SSD to either machine and it's gonnna be an addtional $3,200.
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Not only would most of the work I do melt the Razer Blade, it's a 1080p screen. There's a reason these have the Pro moniker, and it's not because they're for "Pro Gaming".
Terrible comparison. The poster that made it is known to make things up and exaggerate.
If you think one machine is lesser when the prices are that close without even taking into account you're talking about a plastic monstrosity. It weighs 10 freaking lbs. Could you imagine pulling that out in a serious place of business? Ridiculous.
Microsoft won’t do it because:
1. They know they’ll eventually do the same thing.
2. They know dongles have always been the price of progress.
3. They’ll look foolish like Samsung... make fun of Apple for putting the headphone jack on the bottom and a year later do the same thing... doh!
4. MS is smarter than most people on this board... they know thinner, lighter, wireless, is the future of mobile devices.
The price isn't even close. $250 more for way less lmao
Let me guess, only your kind of business is serious business, right? If I pulled that out everyone would think it was awesome.
Considering the number of MacBooks in use at MS and even their own peoples' love for Apple's hardware design, you'd be hard pressed to even find anyone that would see anything wrong here.
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First off, I did the same thing building the alienware monstrosity but added the better chassis - it cost $3384. And no, $250 when you are comparing $3000+ priced laptops is neither much more nor much less. And when you are talking "way more", you're talking about gaming anyway...which is naive. I can't believe I even have to explain this to you, but I'm going to have to assume I do because you are still in high school. But here goes: These machines target the business world, the developer world, and the engineering technology world. Not your bedroom.
When Alienware crams that into a 4 lbs aluminum chassis that doesn't melt the table it's sitting on, they'll charge $5k for it.
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It's not clearly a lesser machine. Because again, it depends on what you're using, and why you are using it. The alienware is heavier, ugly as sin, and not optimized for final cut pro or logic (because it can't run them unless you hackintosh). Hows the battery life too? And using windows? No thanks. Again, I'm a pro at my business, and while that MacBook pro is way more machine than I need, there are at least three aps that are vastly better for my business on a mac. So I'll stick with the OS. (in my use case I hope they update the air to have a retina screen, and I'll happily upgrade this winter.) I'm not the only one in this boat, and I know plenty of people that stick with Mac 0S for the same reason. So it's not a lesser machine. It's a different machine. How is that hard to understand?
In reality how many students do you come across in High School with a $6,699 Laptop ?
First off, I've been here 5 years longer than you. You're clearly extra butthurt today lol
I do plenty of work on my MacBook Pro and my Alienware PC, but tell me more about how you do this real world stuff. Oh wait, wrong thread. This thread is about how you added a still, even better feature to the Alienware 17, a 17" 2160p anti-glare screen, a feature I think a lot of people here desire for a Macbook Pro, and it came out to ~$100 more, and then you said those small price differences mean nothing. Ok. It's still a far better machine for the price. For. The. Price.
Edit: I don't know what you did, but it's still $50 less than the MacBook Pro w/ the better 4K screen lmao
If the specifications are similar then it is capable of doing real work as much as the MacBook Pro.
It is more a case of aesthetics as that Titan is butt ugly.
You're ignoring what a bunch of people has said, like programs that are mac os only. So the price is only better if you define it for a use case that you've decided. I can think of a handful of professions that this update today is great for, and they would never dream of touching an alienware computer.
Wait, you think having been on a forum longer is an indicator of age? It is, in no way, a better machine - at any price. It's not even what any reasonable person would call portable. How you miss this with those 5 extra years of forum wisdom is beyond me.
LOL. If they update the specs to match the touchbar version and add two more ports, I'd happily buy it. But as it is, I am not buying a machine that requires multiply touches to activate media controls after all the money I've spent on Itunes over the years.