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Another year, another laughable release with the same BS language trying to dazzle "Pro" wanna-be's. There is nothing Pro about these machines.

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Have you ever been to a FAANG campus? There are thousands of engineers walking around with MacBooks. I’m pretty sure those engineers would be considered to be professional

Where it doesn't matter that the maxed out specs at which point you can call the machine "Pro" cost something like €3000?

I'm sorry, but 8GB LPDDR3 and 256GB SSD with 2 USB-C ports and jet engine fans aren't really that "Pro".

You are moving the goalposts. So the high end version of the laptop is “pro” but the cheaper one isn’t? Doesn’t this follow for other similar ultra books?

Why does a computer have to be cheap-ish to be “pro”?

Because it carries the "Pro" label. Why not just call it Macbook then? Why release what is essentially 2 products under one label, confusing consumers. It's predatory because Apple charges way too much for way too little when it comes to the Intel Gen8 models of the 2020 MBP.

if 32 GB is not “pro”, i don’t know if we have the same understanding about what “pro” means

That’s like... 1 Slack and a dozen Chrome tabs. :|

I have 64GB in my Thinkpad P71. I got it ~2 years ago. Why so much ram? I make money with this beast. How's your Starbucks?

I bet I make at least twice the money with half the RAM. ;)

Weird thing to belittle someone over there man.

you basically did the same thing with your comment

I'm just speaking his language to deflate his ego a little bit by showing him that his point that RAM = money has no basis in reality.

I was making fun of the fact that he thought 32 was pro. I slam into the 64gb limit on my laptop daily.

I think that's egotistical gatekeeping. There's no basis for 64GB being "pro" and 32GB not (or even 16GB or 8GB, for that matter). You can make millions of dollars on an MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM. Your use case does not dictate what is a reasonable amount for other professionals.

What do you do with 64 GB on your personal machine to use it up completely? Just curious..

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