they also changed the fucking charger again jesus fucking christ this is unholy
Itโs a mobile workstation, not a coffee shop blogging machine. Youโll know if you need the power, or you might have more money than sense.
Even last yearโs entry level M1 Macbook Air is overkill for most peopleโs needs.
You can still charge using a USB type C cable.
This is nothing. Apple used to sell $5000 computers.
In 1985 dollars.
Computers took far more labor to produce under the prevailing social conditions in 1985 than they do now, so they inevitably tended to cost more
Eh, I donโt know about that. Computers were a LOT simpler back then. You could make one yourself from parts. Try that today.
And by โfrom partsโ I donโt mean buying a video card, motherboard, etc. I mean buying a bag of resistors, capacitors, and a circuit board and wiring and soldering it together yourself.
Thatโs a pretty baller laptop tbf
This is designed to be paid with a company charge card. Itโs not made for end user personal laptops.
When my dipshit companyโs IT dept decided that I wouldnโt be allowed to work on Linux anymore, I played hardball and gave them the specs of a $2700 MacBook Pro to get me to use instead. Refused to budge. I didnโt even need all of the shit it had, I just wanted to make the companyโs wallet hurt.
Thereโs this fantasy in the Apple Fandom that there exist these creative professionals who totally need serious horsepower but crammed in to mobile form factor like a laptop to keep up with their โon the moveโ professional lifestyle.
There are two types of people who are going to buy this kind of machine:
1.) The aspiring creative professional who buys the machine on their own dime for the hype and to be seen rather than buying a more reasonably priced (cough desktop) workhorse and spending the difference on more tools that actually contribute to their professional output.
2.) Boomer lawyer/executive types that donโt give a sweet mary fuck about CPU/GPU performance out or M1 chips, they just have the means/budget and want whatever is top of the line and better than everyone lower in the pecking order in the meeting room. The machine will never be used for the heavy workload it was designed for, in fact, most of the cycles will be used for running Microsoft Office applications (probably on Parallels) while connecting to an inferior external display because itโs larger.
