It's amazing you can get an iPad for $349 and a Macbook for $599. Even the plastic 2009 macbook alone was $999 at the lowest. Very strange to see a company do this when everything else just seems to have gone up and up.
man, my opinion of Lenovo has tanked in the last decade and I'm only just realizing it now. I always thought of Dell as kinda shitty, but Lenovo had a great thing going that just kinda atrophied in some cases, and actively got worse in others
Meanwhile Nvidia is happily cresting what, 5 trillion in valuation? It's a weird time to be an Apple shareholder.
Even for home inference, it's hard to recommend a dedicated Mac over a cheap Nvidia server box.
> They are probably the only ones that have the talent, resources, and capital to do that.
Apple invented OpenCL. The problem was their reluctance to work with the rest of the industry, and once CUDA took over it was too late for them to even try.
NVIDIA hampers their GPUs with un-unified graphics memory, while the M series can use everything the computer has (well, you need to save 4GB or so). It also works on airplanes and in hotel rooms, a cheap NVIDIA server box with 64GB of RAM (what my M3 Max laptop has)....how cheap is that?
Since then I have bought countless MacBooks and some other models (I like to refresh every 1-3 years and then my old model typically gets passed along to other family members).
Trying to get students to use your product is a good strategy.
Also, people tend to mix pricing increases with inflation. When I my first iPhone 3G, it cost 500-700 Euro if you were able to get your hands on one without a subscription (remember when iPhones were provider-exclusive?) [1]
An inflation calculator for my country tells that this is 753-1054 in current Euros. The iPhone 17 is now sold here for 839 Euro new. Same ballpark.
[1] https://www.iculture.nl/nieuws/iphone-3g-als-los-toestel-87-...
but that should cause extra wear on the SSD, or is this no longer a concern?
The fan is just obnoxious on top of that.
When you switch between browser and Word etc, there is a lag, you can see screen being redrawn etc.
Yes, it "does the job". But experience is abysmal.
They don't last more than a couple of years before they start becoming painfully slow, even after being reimaged.
Whereas my 10+ year old laptops and desktops are as fast as the day I bought or assembled them.
It's more powerful than my $4000 M1 Max until it heat soaks.
This is the same company that for years dragged their feet on the iPad Mini because Steve thought you would need "sandpaper to shave down your fingertips".
You know that Steve Jobs has been dead for 15 years, right?
You might want to invent a new axe to grind. At least something from this decade.
that's cheaper than a Magic Keyboard, depending on the iPad :)
EDIT: also on amazon:
the iphone launched at $499
EDIT: hmm.. I guess iphone 1 was $499 or $599 and that required a 2-year AT&T contract. Don't know what the actual price was.
I do know the top iphone 17 pro max is $1,999.
but it does have 2tb of storage, which is amazing in a different way.
The basic iPhone 17 starts at $799
The 17e is only $599
If anything the iPhone is getting cheaper in real terms, not more expensive
They have also become more capable and it seems having a more capable phone has really benefited people.
also: by your numbers that means $1,999 in 2026 would have been $3200 in 2007.
When the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon in 2011, you could either spend $200 and get locked into a 2-year contract, $300 and get locked into a 1-year contract, or buy the thing outright for $650. Since you didn't get a discount for bringing your own phone to Verizon, it was more cost-effective to get the subsidized phone.