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  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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    13 hours ago

    Well, not a fan, exactly, but I am forced to be fully engulfed in the apple ecosystem.

    I don’t hate them more than Dell, Asus, Sony, or Microsoft. Not everything they make is a ripoff.

    • the $10 A/D converter in the headphone adapters is a steal
    • the mac mini with base config is a good deal
    • the macbook air is worth the money and best in class
    • ipad — no worthy competition for most users
    • M-series chips and their energy consumption
    • savvy users avoid all the upsell ripoffs like storage upgrades and displays and sock slings
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      8 hours ago

      Main issue I have with that company is the ridiculous pricing of SSD or RAM upgrades. I’m not paying $200 for extra 256gb, we’re not in 2008 anymore

      And that it can’t be upgraded after purchase

      Edit, went to watch the price of the 256gb SSD upgrade and I was wrong. It’s not $200 but it’s €250 👍🏻

      Edit2: I was also wrong about the SSD pricing in 2008, they’re selling it at year 2012 prices, not year 2008 prices

      someone in 2013 said that 256gb drives were selling for $50 cheaper than what Apple is charging in 2025

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          8 hours ago

          Yes but it’s annoying to being forced to workaround the issue with USB drives…

          Also I’d like to get 32gb or 64gb because it’s shared with GPU… But a Mac mini with 64gb costs 2500 euro (THREE TIMES!!!) instead of the 750 euro base model with 16gb…

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            5 hours ago

            I think that is funny

            • 3 complete mac minis, all of them with 16gb ram= 2200 euro, total 48gb divided in the three machines
            • a single mac mini, with a huge 256 gb SSD drive (for the standards that were popular last decade), with 48gb of extra RAM over the base one = 2500 euro
    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      8 hours ago

      Personally I wouldn’t call the MacBook air good value for money. It’s not a bad computer but it’s very expensive for the specs you get. You’re basically paying for it to be very thin and really it’s no more portable than the normal MacBook because when you think about it obviously it isn’t because if the MacBook wasn’t portable it would be a mini desktop.

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      8 hours ago

      iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.

      The rest of your list seems reasonable

      • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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        8 hours ago

        Meh, in my fairly extensive experience with end users, they don’t care about that, they have phones. Different use-case.

        But I recognise that we’re here amongst many fussy edge-case users. Still the best tablet by majority acclaim even if you can’t use it as a phone.

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          5 hours ago

          I must have a weird sample then. My uncle specifically wants that because he doesn’t want to have a separate phone. So he has a Galaxy Tablet. And a colleague at work recently inquired how she would log in to the phone company website to charge the prepaid plan if she can’t get the login SMS.