March 18th, 2020 at 10:03 PM
I'm always eyeballing those MacBook Pros with the fancy touchbar above the keyboard. They got an SDK for it too so people can write all kinds of cool things for it (shortcut bar, soundboard, etc.) and I'd love to play with that.
But shit if they aren't expensive. Canadian dollar isn't doing well rn either, so that kills any prospects I'd have.
Maybe when we go full boog I'll find one during a raid ;o
Pricing-wise, macbooks aren't too bad for the specs. Sure, the drives don't have a ton of capacity or more than 8GB of RAM in most cases, or a super-high GHz CPU, but it all works together beautifully. Multithreading Just Werks™, the drives and RAM are ultra fast, etc. Try to run Ableton or any other DAW on a MacBook versus a 4000$ PC and you'll still get basically the same performance because of how well everything is put together, hardware- and software-wise.
Not to mention if you find the specific parts online (I don't mean similar speed, I mean the EXACT part no.) the retail price of everything put together (minus the chassis/screen/mobo) is pretty comparable to the final cost of the laptop itself.
Of course they have pretty big profit margins still because they don't buy parts for retail price, but still.
But shit if they aren't expensive. Canadian dollar isn't doing well rn either, so that kills any prospects I'd have.
Maybe when we go full boog I'll find one during a raid ;o
Pricing-wise, macbooks aren't too bad for the specs. Sure, the drives don't have a ton of capacity or more than 8GB of RAM in most cases, or a super-high GHz CPU, but it all works together beautifully. Multithreading Just Werks™, the drives and RAM are ultra fast, etc. Try to run Ableton or any other DAW on a MacBook versus a 4000$ PC and you'll still get basically the same performance because of how well everything is put together, hardware- and software-wise.
Not to mention if you find the specific parts online (I don't mean similar speed, I mean the EXACT part no.) the retail price of everything put together (minus the chassis/screen/mobo) is pretty comparable to the final cost of the laptop itself.
Of course they have pretty big profit margins still because they don't buy parts for retail price, but still.
