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Maybe other manufacturers will actually stop making crappy hardware that feels like its taped together?

Hardware is hard, and Apple's scale lets them make things that are nice while still maintaining their margins.

A decade ago, but still relevant: https://beneinstein.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-ap...

Let me rephrase what I said: I do not expect everyone to be able to do Apple style quality hardware. But the build quality of a Thinkpad from 20 years ago I think is still doable.

Your lips to God's ears. I loved my old T40.

Seiko could make Grand Seiko...

More importantly, they need to find an alternative to Windows. A $10,000 computer wouldn't fix that dogshit.

There's really nothing in between. If ChromeOS would have been an alternative, maybe more Chromebooks would have been sold.

It comes down to Microsoft not doubling down on "let's make Windows as annoying as possible" (with ads, with telemetry that can't be turned off).

Depends what you want to do. ChromeOS is pretty great at certain things.

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