My 7 years old Lenovo laptop mounts 64gb of RAM and 2 1TB ssds.
It costed less than a Mac M1 Pro 7 years later.
The price of an M1 Pro it's not justified by a slightly faster CPU, no matter how low the power usage is.
I could understand 20% more, but not two times.
Also: most of my workflows wouldn't work natively on ARM Macs.
That doesn't mean Apple doesn't have a great product with a big market.
They simply will never be mainstream.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Macs continue to gain market share in the years to come with their CPU lead
I would!
CPU alone doesn't sell notebooks to non-tech people on a budget
But only sacrificing something else, like screen, battery life and/or build quality.
I bought a M1 Pro, not primarily because of its performance, but because it was the cheapest way to get the performance I wanted without sacrificing battery life or build quality in a hardware/software package I could trust to Just Work out of the box.
Or branding...
Which I can accept.
>I would!
>CPU alone doesn't sell notebooks to non-tech people on a budget
You’re quite right. If you restrict your market segment of interest to budget products and overall market share, that’s Macs out of the picture before you even start. Apple does not care, at all, about the budget end of the market. It’s irrelevant to them.
Looking at the premium segment, and the market dynamics are completely different. The majority of retail laptops costing over $1k sold are Macs. They also enjoy about tripple the market share among university students that they have in the general market, although that varies greatly by country. The result is that Apple captures roughly 60% of the profits in the desktop/laptop computer market globally.
Aiming for market share would mean accepting much lower profit margins. That’s something they’re just not interested in.
Their products aren't twice as expensive, their upgrades might be (RAM, iPhone storage) but the base models aren't very expensive if you compare it with "closest to comparable" competitor models.
Depends on where.
In Italy it's absolutely not true.
I am a consultant for an Italian University in Milan.
I see a lot of Chromebooks, people don't have 1.500 euros to waste on a laptop + rent + food.
Many students ask me what they can buy with their budget, that, on average, is far below a thousand euros.
>The chips here aren’t only able to outclass any competitor laptop design, but also competes against the best desktop systems out there, you’d have to bring out server-class hardware to get ahead of the M1 Max – it’s just generally absurd.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
So, really, what this is saying is that a brand new, constructor specific 5nm SoC that is tailor made with a CPU/memory quasi-direct link is about equal to a year and a half old 7nm CPU, while being twice as expensive. As much as the Apple fanboys can scream about pOwEr EfFiCciEnCy!1, making up a $1500 difference just in electricity costs is going to be hard. Battery life doesn't matter, just plug your damn laptop, it's throttling itself if it's not plugged in anyways.
