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Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 (www.apple.com)
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[–] -5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

you have to spend $270 on a keyboard/trackpad regardless

That's Apple tax, not manufacturing cost. MacBook replacement keyboards sell for 10 dollars on Aliexpress.

iOS/iPadOS puts OS-level limits on how much you can even take advantage of that hardware even if there is an iOS app for the thing you want to do

I'm comparing hardware to hardware, not artificial Apple software restrictions.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    I'm comparing hardware to hardware, not artificial Apple software restrictions.

    That's great but hardware doesn't exist in a vacuum. With an ecosystem as locked-down as an iPad's you can't just ignore the software. It's not like you'll ever be able to uninstall it because it's intentionally locked down, unlike a macbook which allows installing apps and even modifying the bootloader to boot into a different OS.

    Edit: Forgot to mention the fact even for people that might not care about that, iOS will automatically kill any app that uses more than a certain amount of RAM (I think it was 4GB? I don't remember the exact number) so in a lot of scenarios you can't even take advantage of the hardware in an iPad because of the locked down software

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