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…what? (anyone who’s heard me talk about this already, carry on)

okay, let me walk you through a simple story. my last MBP was early 2015—the last MBP before the Dark Ages of the MacBook. my best friend gets stuck with the absolute, god-awful embarrassment that was the 12” MacBook a few months later—before heading off to be a STEM major, of course! she literally once had to put it in an open freezer to cool it down.

long story short—my use case for an MBP dwindles, I lose faith in the entire line as iterations go on, and get an iPad Pro. that ends up sucking after a few years because of the true current embarrassment of Apple at the moment: iPadOS. miraculously, around the same time, M1 is announced, and when the reviews come out, everything they said…holds up.

I start saving, and eventually arrive at an M2 MBP. I “downgrade” from 15” to 14”, and it literally doesn’t matter, because the computer is so goddamn stunning (in every sense of the word). I was unable to run basic apps on my 2015 Intel by the time it was done without the fans sounding like a vacuum and the computer getting hot to the touch.

the fans on my M2 have turned on once. the screen is incredible, the keyboard is finally usable, the speakers are absurd for a laptop of its footprint, and it runs cool to the touch 95% of the time. (still pushing the limits of Ableton and it never fails to impress.) oh…don’t forget actual ports!

I’ll borrow from @StevieD100 here—what competition do you speak of? even with the Air, show me a laptop as capable and power efficient at such a size/footprint as it.

tl;dr LMFAO

I stopped reading after "I start saving for the M2 MBP then downgrade from 15" to 14". The fact that you need to downgrade due to cost is why Apple kept raising prices and milking their customers.

That is why people don't purchase Apple products like they used to now. Because people like you accept the fact that they are taking in BILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and still raising prices and claiming it's necessary due to cost. You don't have BILLIONS in cash profit and claim product prices need to increase just to survive.

 

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I stopped reading after "I start saving for the M2 MBP then downgrade from 15" to 14". The fact that you need to downgrade due to cost is why Apple kept raising prices and milking their customers.

That is why people don't purchase Apple products like they used to now. Because people like you accept the fact that they are taking in BILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and still raising prices and claiming it's necessary due to cost. You don't have BILLIONS in cash profit and claim product prices need to increase just to survive.

…or I just wanted a computer with a smaller footprint?

lmao, I was sick of the 15" after using a 9.7" iPP for years, god forbid one have personal preferences

 

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I stopped reading after "I start saving for the M2 MBP then downgrade from 15" to 14". The fact that you need to downgrade due to cost is why Apple kept raising prices and milking their customers.

That is why people don't purchase Apple products like they used to now. Because people like you accept the fact that they are taking in BILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and still raising prices and claiming it's necessary due to cost. You don't have BILLIONS in cash profit and claim product prices need to increase just to survive.

The fact you didn’t read the rest of the post you quoted says everything. You completely missed the point of what the poster you quoted was saying.