This is the kind of comment that makes me lean heavily toward the judgment that you’re writing an ideological screed, not any sort of reasoned analysis or calm evaluation of the issue.
That’s a fair inference; ‘foolish’ was an unhelpful thing to say.
(My actual reason for disdaining Macs is finding recently that my desired laptop—nothing crazy, i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD—was unavailable for any price. And that a price-matched one had about 25% those specs. Is that ideological?)
It is ideological to let that annoyance creep into an economic/social analysis. And ideological to judge other peoples’ choices of how to spend their share of economic activity.
Note that I don’t believe one can decouple ideology from fiscal/social policy. Judging how money and effort is spent is the main thing that needs doing.
Have you looked into the refurbished market? (Apple’s own refurb Macs, macsales.com, and powermax.com are all good and reputable, and often come with a warranty.)
This is the kind of comment that makes me lean heavily toward the judgment that you’re writing an ideological screed, not any sort of reasoned analysis or calm evaluation of the issue.
That’s a fair inference; ‘foolish’ was an unhelpful thing to say.
(My actual reason for disdaining Macs is finding recently that my desired laptop—nothing crazy, i7, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD—was unavailable for any price. And that a price-matched one had about 25% those specs. Is that ideological?)
It is ideological to let that annoyance creep into an economic/social analysis. And ideological to judge other peoples’ choices of how to spend their share of economic activity.
Note that I don’t believe one can decouple ideology from fiscal/social policy. Judging how money and effort is spent is the main thing that needs doing.
There’s no reason why people should only care about specs like that and not for things like design and the OS.
Have you looked into the refurbished market? (Apple’s own refurb Macs, macsales.com, and powermax.com are all good and reputable, and often come with a warranty.)