Fun fact: The cheapest MacBook Pro is now £200 more expensive than the model it replaces...

Fun fact: The cheapest MacBook Pro is now £200 more expensive than the model it replaces, or £300 more if you're springing for a 15-inch display. That's just the start, though. Mac Mini prices have risen from £399 to £479, the Mac Pro has jumped from £2,499 to £2,999 and the 4K and 5K iMacs have both been given £300 markups. Thanks, Brexit.

so? why dont you just make your own fucking macbooks, the chinese can do it surely europeans can do it twices better and twices cheaper

No, we can't do it cheaper. That's why we outsource that stuff to asia and africa.

In Europe education is based on educating the lowest common denominator so we don't actually have any capable Europeans

who /thinkpad/ here?

T420 reporting

It's actually pretty disconcerting how seemingly NO electronics whatsoever are manufactured anywhere on earth outside of SE Asia

For instance, wasn't there a "British computer industry" up until at least the 1980s?

>Africa
lmao
When's the last time you saw something that actually had "made in Nigeria" stamped on it that wasn't a scam email

It's not about the potential of what the product can do, it's about whipping it out in front of other people to alienate them.

On a train is where these faggots long to take out their devices to belittle the people around them.

>apple

Funny how newer gen thinkpads had this customisable touch row to replace the function row for several years now, and users hated it as far as I understand. Although that might be because of the autism the average thinkpad user has.

Posted from my T440.

I don't get what's so big about the touch bar thing. My laptop from 2008 had fingerprint log in and touch control for a variety of functions right above all of the F1-F12 keys.

>2016
>buying anything from mac.

They are doing them a favor by increasing the prices.

Food is processed in Africa, a lot of clothing comes from there - technology not so much I agree, they aren't industrialised enough for that.
But the africans are even cheaper than the asians, it's just a matter of time till they will become the biggest supplier of labour.

If not for Brexit, Apple products would not be hilariously overpriced!
Yeah, no, you're an idiot.

Ever thought about buying a computer instead of a faggot trendy device?

I can't imagine there ever being a billion African workers educated and skilled enough to operate a soldering iron or a drill press in an assembly line.

I use a $169 arm quadcore chromebook from ALDI, flashed it with linux, running it right now and I am happy

Good programmers do not need expensive, shiny hardware. AND IF you can't program a computer, you should not be considered white either. Just one man's opinion, don't feel triggered.

yeah... they're more expensive here too.

x220 here.

So?

Many asian factory workers can't even read and they do the job just fine.
They don't have to be educated or intelligent.

Just saying brexit at the end doesn't make this Sup Forums material, go to Sup Forums

China's rocking a 95% literacy rate.

Other than that, I don't entirely disagree but there's still a lower limit. For instance, for some reason Chinese workers never tend to just strip all the copper wiring out of their workplace and walk away, never to return.

>posted from my T420

>buying overpriced, overrated garbage just because it's shiny
apple is for retards that don't know how to explore other options or buy polished turds for status

>Africa
>anything high tech

Tip top kek old chap

macbooks don't get viruses

Where does Stallman get those shirts?

ideapad 17ISK

>being a Macfag
Pls, Pertsa. Don't post Apple degeneracy again. It's a company designed to rape gullibles up the bumhole with "inventions" and "features" the whole purpose of which is to leech the customer even more.

bull-muthafuckin-sheit

Well, you have to keep in mind how huge China's population is - 5% of 1,3 billion are still 65 million people. This is almost the population of gernany and as they are so poorly educated they can only work in factories.

This

Owning an apple product is like carrying around a giant sign that says
"I'm not creative or original in any way, and I judge my self worth based on what people think of me. Please compliment me for wasting money on underpowered garbage"

there's a reason I call my macbook the wank machine

It's literally impossible to infect proprietary software with malware when you don't know the source code

I'm an engineer faggot

I do power factor studies

dont be stupid. apple is dying. the price increase is a desperate attempt at keeping cash flow up

every year since the year after they introduced the iphone they have been less profitable than the year before except for 1 4th quarter

the media is full of idiots who thought apple stock would be the new gold futures and dumped their life savings into it and now shill endlessly about how its the first time in 15 years that apple is facing declining profits every quarter .

its so funny watching them do this i almost feel bad for the people who have a second mortgage on their house and no retirement savings if they drop the stock now

China's illiterate underclass are the rural subsistence farmers. The factory drones making $500 a month are technically the "middle class," they have way more money than those yokels.

They can be hack its justthe majority of people use windows so most viruses are aimed at them.

Same here, you have good taste

epidemic hits commie fornia we are going to fucking die

>"95%"

>China

Screwing Computer parts together is not an intellectually challenging job.

So what Apple products suck shit. If your still buying into the hype you deserve to be ripped off faggot

The only reason to ever get a Mac is if you need to use Logic Pro, Aperture, or Final Cut Pro. And even then

You can banter all you want, but I am jealous of those Macs getting 10 hours of battery. My Asus barely lasts 1,5 hours.

the majority of windows users are virgins who visit obscure porn websites and get viruses from clicking the ad of the milf asking them if they want to "chat now"

>believing statistics that come from china. kek..

Apple literally does not make one product that is worth what it costs. The only way they remained relevant is by buying art/sound software licensing and discontinuing it for Windows, because Windows is better in literally every single way, and they needed to manipulate their users or they would lose them.

Fuck apple.

It is for people who can't figure out that raping babies won't cure AIDS and cannibalizing albinos won't give you magic powers

the prices of other brands has increased too. apple is just an example.

this would be a good time for tech companies in europe to start making their own devices and build them there. no made in china TPP bullshit

These farmers lose all their land to big agricultural companies - that's why they all move to these huge Metropoles no one in the west has even heard of.
They are not middleclass they are basically slaves who invest everything in their children's education.

>For instance, wasn't there a "British computer industry" up until at least the 1980s?

Yeah, it's a bit of a shame actually. Even the Pi is manufactured in China because it's so much cheaper to do so there.

Patents, we have the ability to sue people here who abscond with ideas. Certainly an exploitable system, but that's why.

Tfw can't program...

This is only going to affect middle-upper-class hipster scumfucks who would have voted remain, so it's actually a good thing.

>x220
This will survive a nuclear blast

There's a concept, and this is my own theory, I call "mailman IQ."

You don't need super geniuses as the bedrock of a civilization, but you need someone who can fundamentally grasp that if you give him a box with an address on it with the promise to pay him regularly for bringing those boxes to the addresses written on them, it will profit him more in the long run than just opening the fucking box and keeping the delicious gifts inside, then burning his cute little blue and white uniform and tearing all the wiring out of his van for scrap money.

As far as I can tell, that requires a median IQ of about 85 to 90. If you can manage that, you can build a country.

Who the fuck buys Mac anyway, build your own computer for the amount of money you'd spend, faggot

>Good programmers do not need expensive, shiny hardware
Web programmers (like you) don't need good hardware, kraut. Good programmers often do. However, good programmers (unlike you) can easily afford good hardware.

>build your own laptop
Uh-huh.

Who would want to buy a iMac anyway?

Paying 1500$ USD and with the same amout of money you could buy a kick ass gaming pc..

I thought being white means you're able to do magical things no mere subhuman can do.

It's such a simple wish, a macbook equivalent that's twice's more powerful and twice's as cheap and made in the good parts of europe.

Please kill yourself immediately.

I'm good with my HP spectre

The chinese are actually already buying huge amounts of land in Africa - for mining but also for building factories.
They implement their discipline and assembly-line work among the natives and let them do the work.
This stuff is already happening, the only thing that keeps Africa itself from building industry is tribal structure and therefore not really any functioning states who could use these resources themselves instead of getting exploited by asians.

Web programmers aren't really into Linux. That's why they love node.js so much, it invented pacakage management.

>falling for the laptop jew unless it's paid for by your company

Yeah no thanks

modular PC will do me fine

Proud X220 user here.

>2016
>Still buying Appleshit after Steve Jobs died

for $3k, you can buy an i7 3600, a 1080, 16gb ddr4 ram, 1tb ssd, a 4k monitor, water cooling to OC the cpu, a good motherboard and a good powersupply, with money left over to buy great editing software.

stop falling for the apple meme

Linux of FBSD, period. I would go back to BeOS before using a fucking Mac or any Windows post 7.

>Web programmers aren't really into Linux.
The ones who think they're good are into Linux whether they actually need it or not. Besides, many websites are hosted on Linux machines and you need to SSH your way around to manage them. Also, that's not why they love node.js, but because it uses javascript so there's less of a barrier between client and server side stuff.

anything that gives apple a smaller market share or takes money out of the hands of the people stupid enough to buy from them

*6700K cpu

The fat old grumpy pinko store

He was simply using the Mac as an example you mong.

You can buy a Dell or an Acer or whatever and you're just as fucked.

Still better than being a insufferable hipster applefag or a lvl 1000 wizard Linux queer.

>pinko store
Oh please. I can't see him wearing anything as fashionable as Pinko. I thought they only made women's stuff anyway.

Shit will truly hit the fan when the pound drops below the Euro in April next year.

lel my mac will easily run windows if I partition it

hipster fags don't know how2computer

>Apple
>Ever

Except Linux GNU is the superior operating system for a true red pilled person. It is true free (as in liberty, not as in price) software that gives the USER the power over their computing. Both Microsoft and Apple take away the user's control of their computer.

>when 99% of the Sup Forums userbase is unable to afford apple products despite their CTR cash (((flow))))
kek stay poor

nobody really supports linux though. thats why its trash and only appeals to the autistic elite.

this

I paid for half of mine and my dad paid for the other half in a deal we made before I went to school

I’d just like to interject for moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

You mean: an IOS/MacOS emulator or a hackintosh
>They exist, but is near impossible to get them. One of the only "working" IOS emulators was made for RIM OS10 years ago but the team that made the thing was sued to hell by Apple. Hackintosh are extremely difficult to made due to the need of very specific parts.(you can't build one with AMD cpus or GSkill RAMs...)
>Fuck Apple and jewish people

The butthurt is delicious.
>wahh a company that's products are considered a social status is marking up its prices

>linux fanboy
>redpilled
The only redeeming factor of Linux-based distros is that they provide an alternative to Windows/OS X. As far as the purely technical aspect goes, it's a subpar work of amateurs in every regard, the result of a philosophy that can only produce sub-par products.

X220 my dude

I should got the Macberg pro when I had the chance!

T440p reporting

>user why are you using an old laptop?

Fucking normals, apparently a modern laptop can't be matte and has to turn into a mirror the moment you take it outside.

Chromebook with SeaBIOS running Linux as a portable thin client to connect to more powerful remote box is comfy though.

x230 my googles

The only "linux" worth installing or even mentioning to anybody is Steam OS.

I got a Surface Pro 4 for college earlier this year, and I think it's really impressive. Really really useful for classwork.

Amen.

t. mac / windows faggot

>using macs


you deserve everything bad that happens to you

Sure, if you have a powerful box, you're probably not going to carry it around and you probably want remote access to it. Doesn't disprove the fact that you need pretty good hardware to work efficiently on industrial-strength software (think compiling a large template-heavy C++ project, advanced profiling of a soft real-time project etc.) unless you're one of the lucky few who get to work in Common Lisp.