Pricing has gone crazy here in the UK. Paid £1899 for my M1 Pro. Same spec M2 Pro is £2199.
Edit: at this rate when my previous gen one expires I'm going to think seriously about shifting back to ThinkPads...
Edit: at this rate when my previous gen one expires I'm going to think seriously about shifting back to ThinkPads...
The £ is depreciating against the dollar, and wages in the UK have been stagant for 10+ years and are set to remain stagant for another 10 based upon current forecasting.
Based upon current trends countries like Poland and Slovakia are going to overtake the UK on many economic metrics within a generation, which is both a credit to the growth of those countries and the enmourous decline of the UK relative to places like Germany, France, and the US.
Imports are going to just keep getting more and more expensive.
I'll believe that when I see it
>the enmourous decline of the UK relative to places like Germany, France
The UK, Germany and France are declining in lockstep, actually. In different ways but all declining
>the US
Yes this is the killer.
people scraping by outside London see the decades going by and their lot not improving, and eventually the busy beavers crafting messages found the right ones ("the UK is paying so and so much pounds every day to the EU instead of funding the NHS more")
this solved nothing, people scraping by still have low economic productivity. infrastructure development outside London is late by decades (because every time there was a cost increase it slowed down basically, and there were a lot of cost increases - every recession, interest rate cut, Baumol effect, etc meant costs going up)
similarly development inside big cities is stunted because of cost increases.
because a lot of globalization made local services relatively more expensive (this is the Baumol effect basically) and all the affected areas are very labor heavy: NHS (healthcare), education, construction.
then all this recently culminated in idiots getting elected (Boris Johnson, etc) who then made things worse by not doing anything.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-the-uk-is-having-an-ec... - in this paywalled post Noah argues that the UK is going through a mild version of the emerging economy crisis (like Sri Lanka), because its import dependent, trade deficit, capital flight, pegged currency (basically for price stability the Bank of England has to), and lots of borrowing in foreign currency (USD, EUR), and accelerating inflation
You're seeing it right now, if you actually look.
"UK economy could be comparable to “Slovakia” in 10 years - says economist Duncan Weldon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5g_S9BBtqw
> The UK, Germany and France are declining in lockstep,
Nope.
https://youtu.be/R5g_S9BBtqw?t=155
"Britain is unique among the G7 countries in that GDP per head is still below that when the pandemic hit."
Notice the "unique" bit.
Forgive me but I disregard the predictions made by economists, a class of people who bear no consequences for their predictions.
You may be correct but this proves nothing.
So it's USD * exchange rate * VAT + pessimism.
Fans blasting, laggy, hot, three hour battery life. Its a substantial step backwards
Have to check to see how reliable those thinkpads are but I also just enjoyed the physical experience of a Mac (know it's not for everyone and subjective)
But yeah I’ll bitch and moan and just give apple the money like I always do now n
Since then, the 2019 macbook has been having tons of problems, crashing, thermal issues, software issues, keyboard issues. But the 2013 has been working like a dream. My coworkers have many similar experiences.
Mid-2010s was definitely a peak for macbooks. Hopefully M1s/M2s will be another peak.
http://www.exchangerate.com/charts.html?continent=currency%2...
Or, in the case of the iPads last time round, a price jump for the exact same product.