Hi Rob I did exactly the same sums this morning, $6k+ but then I considered external SSD hard drives and speed of connection ports and maybe just 1Tb internal drive might do. My PowerBook 5300 cost $5k in the early 90s :-) Over the years all my maxed out MacBooks 15" & 17" have been close to $6k. So, they are in fact becoming cheaper, relatively speaking. The last, a 17", now 8 years old, is still humming along. I don't know how upgradable this new one will be. Has ifixit torn one down yet? Maxing a special build maybe your only option if you don't want an external drive. My 2c worth, (& the other $6499.98) Brian Risbey 🌊🏊
On 28 Oct. 2016, at 18:57, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: Hi everyone I've just been looking at the new Macbook Pro. It looks pretty cool, but what about the price? The top of range machine costs A$4,249.00 for 512Gb storage. I've got 400Gb of photos! And then they want A$1,920.00 to upgrade to a 2TB SSD drive... This is up to the price level that the first Mac IIs were in the late 1980s... And then there's nothing in the box to connect my existing devices to. I've got to buy all sorts of adaptors (from $30 to $110) to keep working... Are Apple going to price themselves out of the market? Do I have to carry around al sorts of cables and 3rd party devices to use my computer as I move around? Any ideas about how to resolve the issue? Rob -- Dr Rob Phillips Sessional tutor School of Education, Curtin University [email protected] Life member, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
