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Comment by mgraupner | Hacker News Reader

Apple: 500 nits display, whole working day battery, fans almost never on, much higher resale value. Might be worth it for some people.

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That combined with the best speakers you will ever hear in a laptop, keyboard and touchpad you know will be at least decent (ye olde butterfly notwithstanding), the steep price tag kind of sort of starts to partially make a bit more sense.

The price is still stupid, but a potential customer not needing to give a crap about his new computer might just make the steep price worth it.

Why would I care about laptop speakers? 1600 EUR gives me plenty of room to get a normal laptop, Harman-kardon soundsticks plus top-end Sennheiser headphones. No matter how good laptop speakers are, they won't even be near the ones mentioned.

You've clearly never sat on a couch with a Mac on your lap.

The speakers on a mac are better than headphones? ...REALLY?!

The point was that the combined value of all these features are rarely matched in any other laptop in this price range. Superior speakers were just one of the things.

Sure, I get the general point, but that isn't where it went. It went into the usual tiresome mac hyperbole.

You're the one that changed "near" to "better" out of nowhere.

But I think they were also talking about the overall convenience-quality tradeoff.

You need speakers to drown out the noisy fan?

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