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Can't believe they actually made another one of these things after the first one flopped so badly. And they changed nothing but the chip?
Make a display that plugs into your already-wildly-expensive MacBook and you might sell a few...
Just to be fair, the MacBook pros are actually a tremendously good value if you actually need their power. I’d kill for a full Linux machine running on comparable hardware to their M5 processors.
That said, it just reinforces that if they made a screen you needed to be plugged into your MacBook for (and for low power on the go, like watching a movie on a plane, you could have a small battery pack that lasts for a few hours and use your phone for the content), it would be an absolute thoroughbred for sales. You could offer it for 500-1000 dollars and folks buying 2 and 3 thousand dollar MacBook pros, or 1200 plus dollar phones, would tack that on like they do Apple Watches and AirPods. That should be their goal.
Their mistake was trying to make a standalone product. They should’ve made a companion piece that was more affordable.
I mean sure, if you like spending $1500+ on a new computer every year...they're completely irreparable, unupgradeable, and they have a definite lifespan when Apple arbitrarily decides that they're "obsolete".
In principle I agree with you. But have you seen the state of the rest of the industry? Framework stands out as a bastion of repairability, the rest is mostly garbage.
I’d honestly expect a longer lifetime from a Macbook than almost anything else on the market at this point, especially if we are talking about high performance laptops for ”creative” work. You know, apart from an old Thinkpad, those machines are invincible.
"The rest of the industry" is an extremely large generalization. Some of them are nearly as bad, many of them are not.
No one else invents new screws to prevent access (except Nintendo). No one else puts in their contracts that their manufacturers can't sell components to anyone else. No one else serializes components so that you can't swap parts from a donor board. I could go on.
Like, on gamepads? I have multiple sets of security bits that I bought just to get required bits to open gamepads, and I've never owned a Nintendo gamepad.
Security bits are in use all over the place. They sell them at harbor freight. Not really specialized.