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Apple products and prices, reasonable?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by TimDuncanDonaut, Oct 25, 2021.

  1. TimDuncanDonaut

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    Apple is selling this piece of cloth for $19

    "...Apple has added a special piece of cloth in its product catalogue this year that is meant for consumers to clean their Apple devices with proper safety from the risk of scratches. This special piece of cloth will obviously have to be purchased separately and will cost you $19."

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    Article / Apple shop

    This show goes nicely with the Apple Mac Pro Wheels Kit, which you can get for a low low prices of $699.00

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  2. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    If that cloth lasts a few years and did the job, I'd buy it (but I'd look for a similar competitive one first)

    Here is an article about the wheels.

     
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  3. TimDuncanDonaut

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    I dunno man, one can have four real car tires for less.
     
  4. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    I didn't say I'd buy the wheels :), but if I could afford $50,000 on a Mac Pro, I'd spend the extra $700 for the wheels. :)
     
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  5. Jontro

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    pretty fair imo. i'm pretty satisfied with mine
     
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  6. ThatBoyNick

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    I bought a whole bag full for $4.99, haha chumps
     
  7. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Is the cloth cut from the Kanye T-Shirt?
     
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  8. peleincubus

    peleincubus Member

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    I am on an annual cycle for about 5 years now. I trade in my mac laptop and get a new one. It costs me 400-500 a year to have a new computer yearly. I guess it's a ripoff I dunno
     
  9. Mr.Scarface

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    M1 MacBook Air is the best price/performance laptop on the market. It can be had for $850-$1200 depending on configuration. I bought a M1 MacBook Pro 13 inch for $1040 + $98 for AirPods Pro during back to school. Again, Price and Performance value. People focus on outliers for Apple, but they are not overpriced for the people who those products are targeting. I can say Bentley, Benz, Audi, Telsa, Porshe, Ferrari, etc are over priced, but not to their target market.
     
  10. daywalker02

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    Does anyone know why the Apple logo has a bitten apple and not a normal apple on it?
     
  11. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    From the logo designer...

    " I designed it with a bite for scale, so people get that it was an apple not a cherry."
     
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  12. Dr of Dunk

    Dr of Dunk Clutch Crew

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    lol. You buy a new computer yearly? Wth. But since it's an Apple, please continue. My stock loves you. :D
     
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  13. couple of d's

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    God bless my apple stock
     
  14. peleincubus

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    Yeah, I am online a ton for school etc. So I pay a $450ish fee I suppose to always have a new MacBook pro.

    An alternative I suppose is you could buy a $1000+ new PC every 3-4 years and when you want a new one, your current one would not have any resale value.

    I generally keep my iPhone for about 3 to 3 1/2 years as well before getting a new one.
     
  15. Dr of Dunk

    Dr of Dunk Clutch Crew

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    Yeah, nowadays, I doubt you really need to upgrade a PC even after 3-4 years. I'm still running a 5-6 year old desktop and the only thing I really need to upgrade is probably the video card and I'm really in no rush to do that, even. I just added another hard drive to it as the only change I've made to it, that I recall, in the past 5-6 years. That was only because the price on everything has skyrocketed and supply on stuff is short. But it depends on what you do, I guess. I remember back about 10-20 years ago, CPUs would age a lot quicker it seemed and people were buying/building computers more often, though.

    And, yeah cell phones every year went out the window for me with $1000 cell phones. No way I'm doing that. I'm only going to upgrade my cell phone if it slows down with no fix or starts malfunctioning. Somehow, I doubt my next cell phone will do a lot more than my current one for me, so why "upgrade" unless necessary?
     
  16. CCorn

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    Got the wheels. The tire rotations also cost $200 every 4 months.
     
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  17. Invisible Fan

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    Clicked link...tldr 10,000 words of fluff:

    Because they can.

    Jokes on you. I bought the $2000 2yr warranty that comes with free rotations and oil changes.
     
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  18. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    You should look into parts on exotic cars.
     
  19. MexAmercnMoose

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    no Apple products here....just their stock, kudos to you guys
     

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