Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599
woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 hours agoSure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.
So form factor, not hardware internals should be the deciding factor in cost?
Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599
woelkchen@lemmy.world 9 hours agoSure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.
So form factor, not hardware internals should be the deciding factor in cost?
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 8 hours 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 4 hours ago
Typical Apple tax, completely unrelated to the few dollars a keyboard costs for real.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 4 hours 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”
woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The MacBook doesn’t have a touchscreen. It cancels the keyboard cost out.
They don’t even put touch ID on the entry model.