• I bought my niece a new MacBook Air. Her exceptionally poor, rural, Bible belt upbringing hasn’t stopped her from excelling academically. She needs a new computer and her family was going to buy her a $200 chromebook. But she’s off to college in a year and I knew that wouldn’t cut it. Here’s hoping it gets her to graduation.

    • Luc
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      325 days ago

      Does she do graphic design, or why would an Apple be better than any other brand for half the price?

      Of course a 200$ laptop isn’t very usable, but why pay thousands of dollars extra just to have an Apple logo and get the kid introduced to vendor lock-in

      • @remon@ani.social
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        724 days ago

        Does she do graphic design, or why would an Apple be better than any other brand for half the price?

        They clearly said it wouldn’t cut it!

      • A Unix-based system has value far beyond graphic design. A Mac will get software support for many years. The hardware quality and battery life are second to none.

        • Luc
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          220 days ago

          Same with any other system that runs any OS you want

      • Owl
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        24 days ago

        Do you know how good those computers are ? They have shitty reparability, but otherwise they are great value.