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317 points diwank | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 14:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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throwaway48476 ◴[15 Oct 24 16:22 UTC] No.41850185[source]▶
It is interesting that one of their examples is a "community repair fair", they want to market a sheen of social responsibility without actually taking part themselves.
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giancarlostoro ◴[15 Oct 24 16:42 UTC] No.41850430[source]▶
Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.
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1. crossroadsguy ◴[16 Oct 24 12:03 UTC] No.41858086[source]▶
My next self-purchased laptop is also going to be one that is not a Mac and buying a 2-3 year extended warranty wouldn't cost half or one third of its price. It will also not increase its price by 25-30% if I choose to double the RAM (and by double I mean 8 to 16, not 32 or so). I asked an Apple fan once why Apple still has 8GB RAM even in their pro models and I got the response because it's Apple, you don't need more than 8GB RAM. And I actually realised why Apple gets away with such practises. They are like the 99.978% of Apple's customer base. They stand in queues to get the latest Apple device and then cry out of joy.

I bought a Dell laptop in 2007 and I was able to "deselect" Windows and it actually had reduced the price. I could do that in the third world and online and in 2007 (again!). I also got home repair in not a tier 1 city of that third world country. I think we went degradingly backwards from there.