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Apple hopes to convince people to buy its $3,500 Vision Pro headset using free 25-minute in-store demos (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shit I've bought MacBooks for work that cost as much as that headset, and my current laptop costs about as much as this.

$3500 is nothing for a computer, let alone a prosumery AR/VR heatset with a computer built in.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

$3500 is nothing for a computer, let alone a prosumery AR/VR heatset with a computer built in.

It's absolutely bonkers. The problem is you've been brainwashed by Apple into paying such high prices.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My work PC costs twice that. There’s Apples influence has nothing to do with my Thinkpad.

I’ve worked on workstations that cost as much as a nice car. Apples pricing only comes close because they charge so much for storage. When you’re working with triple digit gigabytes of ram machines it ain’t cheap.

Apple makes by far the best laptop out there. No machine comes close when it comes to performance and battery life. Intel has a decent performance per watt under load, but under light non idle loads it’s not even close. My Thinkpad is incapable of getting decent battery life. Lenovos 10 hour battery life is a damn lie. I get 30 minutes to 3 hours at best. Our work MacBook pros easily get 10+ doing the exact same workload. AMD gets close, but they’re falling down the same trap Intel has been for the last 10 years.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

My work PC costs twice that. There’s Apples influence has nothing to do with my Thinkpad.

Please show me your $7k Thinkpad.

When you’re working with triple digit gigabytes of ram machines it ain’t cheap.

It's a lot cheaper if it's not made by Apple. Even the 8GB models are insanely expensive.

Apple makes by far the best laptop out there.

That may be but they're still not worth remotely what they're charging, and the vast majority of people buying them don't need them. They just buy into the ecosystem.

Also cloud computing is a thing. If there's ever anything I need a bunch of power for I run it remotely from my desktop at home or on a cloud VM. And my mediocre desktop will blow the M9 Super Max Ultra Megacruncher out of the water for most tasks.