Summary of Price Increases:
MacBook Air: +$200 → $1,299 MacBook Pro: +$300 → $1,999 MacBook Neo: +$100 → $699 iPad Air: +$150 → $749 IPad Pro: +$200 → $1,199 iPad mini +$100 -> $599 iMac +$200 -> $1499 Mac Studio +$500? -> $2499
Holy shit man. I will never be able to afford new technology again.
MacBook Neo price went up?
Cooked. That shit should be a loss leader.
Apple lost its preferred customer status with their chip manufacturers. They were the largest single purchaser until last year but now they have to compete for resources with Nvidia and aren’t willing to get into the bidding war.
I’m not gonna defend Apple prices, but they are a tech company that makes actual tech products, so they are still at the mercy of supply and demand for high tech products, especially when they lose their sweetheart rates. It’s just another way that the AI bubble is eating capitalism alive.
I’m not familiar with the device, why would they want to take a loss? Is it like a chromebook?
The whole concept of the device is “ARM MacBook that undercuts or matches Chromebook prices while having much nicer build quality and far faster performance.” It’s literally an iPhone motherboard and a bunch of parts bin parts, plus the cheapest display Apple has used in 20+ years.
It’s a no brainer purchase at $400 and an outright bad value proposition at $700.
Make sense
I kinda wanted one to understand how to do and troubleshoot things in Apple ecosystem I’ve never used. If it goes up in price, it seems like older Airs would better serve it, but this just doesn’t bring as much curiosity as iPhone-cpu laptop - and I thought it would be a very popular platform thus my experience could’ve been translated to most cases in near future. Sad.
Yeah, honestly the only sensible or remotely affordable laptop options now seem to be either used ThinkPad + Linux or used Intel MacBook Pro + Linux
I think you still can’t install Linux on the 2019 models