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Mac Sales are Down (www.theverge.com)
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Mac sales are down.

I’m really not surprised. They are just a bit too expensive once you start upgrading the storage and ram.

I have been holding out on buying a Mac since the M2 was rumored to come out.

I keep hoping that the base model will have a larger amount of storage and ram, but it does not.

They keep selling faster processors, but I do not need that, I need more storage and I’d like more ram.

At this point, I’m just going to buy a used M1 air. If Apple had 512 and 26 standard on the base air, I’d pickup a new one today.

Do you disagree? What can Apple do to increase Mac sales?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope everything goes down in price a bit. Honestly Apple could afford it just to earn a bit of good will.

I think for the base price you get a really really good product despite 8gb memory. Most people just need it to perform and it does. But yea once you start upgrading it’s insanely ridiculous and it’s insulting to those who want more out of the best product they’ve made in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My work files are close to 100gb alone. I’d like to have them in the laptop, but with 256gb, I’ll be about half full.

But I’m not paying $200 to upgrade the storage. So I’m just going to have to keep it on an external drive.