hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

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Hello baa!

04 May 26 23:00, you wrote to Nightfox:

hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

Do you mean the phones? The new notebook doesn't seem too pricey.

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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: baa to Nightfox on Mon May 04 2026 11:00 pm

hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

Why are you asking me?

Nightfox
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hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

Why are you asking me?

Why nota speaka english good? Thats what I want to know.

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hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

We have an issue of AI companies hogging all the computer components.
That is one reason.

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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: Exodus to Nightfox on Tue May 05 2026 18:29:17

hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

Why nota speaka english good? Thats what I want to know.

Maybe he's in his Yoda phase.
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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: Matthew Munson to Baa on Mon May 04 2026 21:45:34

hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

We have an issue of AI companies hogging all the computer components.
That is one reason.

Apple has always considered themselves a "premium" company, thanks to SJ. Even back in the '70s, the Apple ][ was the most expensive of the home micros. Granted, it was also the most flexible, but that pricing structure continued...until this year when they brought out the MacBook Neo for $595. It's pretty limited, but the fact that they did it is curious.
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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: Matthew Munson to Baa on Mon May 04 2026 09:45 pm

hello, why apple charge so much for their product, not cool

We have an issue of AI companies hogging all the computer components. That is one reason.

Apple has often charged a lot for their products. It's not just a symptom of AI, which is relatively recent. But some PC components are indeed expensive right now.

I upgraded the RAM in both my PCs a couple years ago, and it happened to be just before RAM prices skyrocketed.. I'm glad I did that when I did.

Nightfox
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Apple has always considered themselves a "premium" company, thanks to SJ.

I consider them junk, and always will be.

... You expect mere PROOF to change my opinion?

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Apple has always considered themselves a "premium" company, thanks to

I consider them junk, and always will be.

I don't get this idea - I can understand if you don't like the eco-system, walled garden, ethics or otherwise... but the hardware has always been the stuff to beat.

The M4 Mac Mini is hands down the best value in 2024, let alone 2025-2026. Literally.

The Neo is gonna KILL all sub $1000 laptops.

I'm a Linux guy thru and thru - but the machine that I interact with daily to control all those other systems will always be macOS.



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Nightfox wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

I upgraded the RAM in both my PCs a couple years ago, and it happened
to be just before RAM prices skyrocketed.. I'm glad I did that when I did.

Disks, too. I waffled on replacing the 2TB spinning drives in my NAS
with bigger SSDs, wish I'd done it last year...



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I'm a Linux guy thru and thru - but the machine that I interact with daily to control all those other systems will always be macOS.

I think a lot of us "PC people" considered them junk early on because they were not compatible with anything else, sort of like the Commodores, TIs, etc., that preceded them. With the internet age, this compatibility issue became less apparent.

Another reason being that, IIRC, they were harder to tinker with.



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Re: Re: macOS 26
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu May 07 2026 07:52 am

I upgraded the RAM in both my PCs a couple years ago, and it happened to
be just before RAM prices skyrocketed.. I'm glad I did that when I did.

Disks, too. I waffled on replacing the 2TB spinning drives in my NAS with bigger SSDs, wish I'd done it last year...

That sucks.. I've considered buying a bigger spinning drive for my secondary PC.

Nightfox
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