When did $600 become budget?

JumpCrisscross 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When it lasts 5 to 10 years. I’m still using my 2020 MacBook Pro, and figure I’ll get another half decade out of it. That’s <$200/year. The Neo could be a <$100/year laptop, which puts it in the same class as $200 shitbooks that crap out after two or three years.

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Schmerika 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would you be surprised if I told you that $600 is slightly under 11 days of the average rent [0]?

0 - https://www.rentcafe.com/average-rent-market-trends/us/

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ozlikethewizard 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that more rents are insane though, british perspective but 600 ~ £450, £450 is still around a third of an average rent, but I'd consider a budget laptop those in the £2-350 range. For the average user £400+ (so $500+) is decidely midrange purely on the virtue that its the middle of the range for general use laptops (being £150-1000 really, anything more than that and you're entering decent gaming/workstation specs).

	▲	amenhotep 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not to mention that it they are, naturally, going to convert $600 to £600.

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thunderbong 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For existing Mac owners.

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mixmastamyk 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Recently after another round of 30-40% inflation.