This is the longest I’ve ever gone without purchasing a Mac like 20 years... something like 7 years now. Their offerings aren’t compelling for the price. Apple should have a massive competitive advantage in price, but instead of passing that down in anyway they’ve been keeping it to themselves.
Additionally, while they kill it in perf per watt, sometimes I just want performance. Ex. their current GPUs don’t compare well to NVidia but the machines are priced like they do.
Machines used to get more base RAM over time but they don’t anymore. I’m shocked 16GB isn’t the standard on every machine they sell. It should be cheap to get to 32GB. The base SSD is absolutely shameful, Apple at the price should have a TB minimum. It’s fucking 2023 for godsakes, it’s been like 10+ years of fucking people for a useful amount of storage. Isn’t that enough?
Additionally, while they kill it in perf per watt, sometimes I just want performance. Ex. their current GPUs don’t compare well to NVidia but the machines are priced like they do.
Machines used to get more base RAM over time but they don’t anymore. I’m shocked 16GB isn’t the standard on every machine they sell. It should be cheap to get to 32GB. The base SSD is absolutely shameful, Apple at the price should have a TB minimum. It’s fucking 2023 for godsakes, it’s been like 10+ years of fucking people for a useful amount of storage. Isn’t that enough?