It's a shame that Apple is so great at greenwashing and at the same time spits on every way they could help create truly sustainable products by just dropping a few percent of their bottom line.
The iMac will perform comparably (probably a bit better due to better thermals). My point is that these are not bad machines and I don't see why you'd steer someone away from them. However, the price is still quite high compared to other manufacturers and options. But that's always been the case.
The lowest and highest tier exist only to shift consumers towards the middle tier, where Apple profits the most and where lies less value for the consumer. It is a marketing strategy invented by Apple IIRC (it's been a long time since my marketing exam).
I had no idea it was invented by Apple. That feels a little too recent...
Probably going to be the next iteration of the 27" iMac, spanning from 8GB/256GB (LOL) to 16 GB/1TB or something.
No. But people are confused because the RAM is (annoyingly though not entirely nonsensically) tied to the SSD.
It was actually invented by Goldilocks.
I'm pretty sure they're not nickle & diming people with 8GB RAM M1 machines, someone somewhere has calculated that as being enough for most users.
HN hardly is the place to compare what is "min spec" :)
(As I'm writing this, my i7 MBP sounds like a jet taking off, CPU capped near 100%. Normal day at the office.)
So what's Apple's end-game? Milking (predominately US) professional class in perpetuity. It's not like they're going to switch, especially if they perceive the alternative to be sluggish heavy bricks whose battery barely lasts 2 hours. For sales, perception is more important than reality.
Is that so clear? It sounds more like a huge assumption to me. It’s not like having an Apple laptop makes it impossible to see how the competition is doing. Doubly so for people with friends in tech.