Sure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.
So form factor, not hardware internals should be the deciding factor in cost?
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popcar2@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoAn iPad Air costs the same but comes with a much better M4 processor.
Sure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
To a degree, yeah.
The laptop form factor is engineered with lid and palmrest assemblies, if you’re going to compare the two then you’ll want to add a nice keyboard to that iPad. Apple’s is $270.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple’s is $270.
Typical Apple tax, completely unrelated to the few dollars a keyboard costs for real.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You’re not entirely wrong, in that the Apple Tax is real. Nonetheless, the quality of the Magic Keyboard is substantially higher than that if a keyboard you can get for “a few dollars”
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What something should be priced at is what the market is willing to pay for it. People are definitely willing to pay more for a MacBook than an iPad. Also there are similar spec’ed Chromebooks on the market that cost around the same price and people buy them. The Neo is competing with Chromebook.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You can’t really use an iPad as a laptop. The hardware exists and should work, but the software is awful.
It’s often several seconds to switch to Safari on my iPad Pro with M series chip. We’ve had app switching in computers for 40 years. Why can’t iPad do it?