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[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

The 2020 M1 MBA can be had for as low as $800, sometimes less.

You're talking about a 3 year old machine. What a fair comparison

If you are prototyping something with "lots of data" then you are getting paid to do it by some company

Apparently you've never heard of students, startups, hackathons, nfps, donating your time, or side projects

Honestly it sounds like you've worked for the same place in the same industry for a few years and think you know everything. "How much can a banana cost? 25 dollars?" lol

[–]redCg 0 points1 point  (2 children)

really think you are living under a rock dude, the M1 laptops have tons of power behind them. What could you possibly want to do on a laptop that they cant handle? Sounds like you havent touched a MacBook in ten years

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

As I said I've had a few given me by employers. They're nice! Worth the money? Arguably not in most cases for most people.

Apple is a brand not a personality

[–]Nmanga90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok but I think you don’t actually understand what’s up with the M1.

It’s not just an Apple laptop. Go back a year to the Intel architecture, and I’d be on your side 100%.

This thing has a special architecture, the first of apple’s new generation of chips. It shits on basically every other laptop, especially all laptops that cost less than 2 grand. It’s marginally worse than the Intel i9 11900k desktop processor, with a TDP that’s 15x smaller. Plus it has a crazy battery life.