To: Swordmaker
Only people who own Tesla’s could afford this.
$1,499 to $4,299. It must be the cost of the 2TB SSD.
You get this with so many Windows laptops today for under $1,000, heck under $700.
To: minnesota_bound
Did you see the pricing on the new Surface Pro laptops? I got an email from Best Buy today and checked. Much higher, like $2800 for the starting model. Apple uses top of the line parts so that what you buy will last for many years, and when you are done with it you can sell it to someone for 60 or 70 percent of what you paid for it. My PC laptops that I used to buy for $700 sell for $150 after 2 or 3 years.
Macbooks are a better value.
35 posted on
10/27/2016 8:26:36 PM PDT by
Defiant
(#HillaryGropedMe when I tried to get her hands off my girlfriend.)
To: minnesota_bound
You get this with so many Windows laptops today for under $1,000, heck under $700. Not if you want a respectable PC with features close to a Mac, yet still not equivalent. My brother-in-law just bought a laptop PC last week, none of them under $1000 were good enough and he bought for $1500. Only idiots buy cheap Windows laptops under $700, and they don't last or do much.
36 posted on
10/27/2016 8:29:56 PM PDT by
roadcat
To: minnesota_bound
Only people who own Tesla’s could afford this.
$1,499 to $4,299. It must be the cost of the 2TB SSD.
You get this with so many Windows laptops today for under $1,000, heck under $700. That's part of it. Those $700 - $1000 PCs with large capacity SSD drives don't have the drives that are in these MacBook Pros. These are PCIe high speed SSDs. The Dell price for a 512GB high performance is $525! The 1TB version is $775! Dell doesn't offer a 2TB, but Apple does for a $1200 upgrade price over the default 512GB.
To get to the $4299 price, requires upgrading the processor to a 2.9GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 3.8GHz, which the Dell did not offer on the model I was configuring. That model only allowed upgrading to the lowest i7 on the MacBook.
47 posted on
10/27/2016 9:11:06 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: minnesota_bound
“Sure you can buy a hamburger for $1. But then you’d have to eat it.”
51 posted on
10/27/2016 11:28:22 PM PDT by
ctdonath2
("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
To: minnesota_bound
Only people who own Tesla’s could afford this. $1,499 to $4,299. It must be the cost of the 2TB SSD."The best is always the cheapest"- old Singer Sewing Machine slogan.
60 posted on
10/28/2016 5:12:27 AM PDT by
jalisco555
("In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell.)
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