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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You got a machined-aluminium laptop with a battery lasting a full day and a hidpi screen, for fifty bucks?

[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip -3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Do those things warrant 6x the price? Or, in reality, 12x the price? Let's be real here, the exact hardware specs down to material aside, is it?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just to be clear in regard to your original comment:

600 is absolutely outrageous in a world where used hardware exists.

You expect manufacturers to sell laptops for fifty bucks?

[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I expect people to be able to obtain a laptop for 50 or 100 bucks, which they apparently can. Manufacturers should have to reckon with that fairly, or lose business.

I want to destroy new device culture.