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You have to be joking. Apple charges $2k just to get a quad-core CPU or more than 8GB of RAM. Soldered, mind you, so you can't just replace it later. Oh, and I hope you don't need more than 500GB of storage!Well, I have 1TB or storage on mine, so?
Second, whether it has cheap replacement options is not exactly a criterion about if it's the best out there or not.
Besides, any competitor product I can buy that doesn't have "soldered RAM" and would allow me to upgrade its RAM 2 years in the future, will also have lost more of its resale value compared to an Apple laptop.
I might as well sell my used MBPr for plenty of $$$ and buy a new model with more RAM 2-3 years down the road, than buy something that I can upgrade but would be selling for much much less than what I bought it for.
>Build quality tends to include things like, you know, being able to fix it when things inevitably go wrong
Horses for courses. I'd rather treat it as an opaque box, which either works or doesn't. I don't want to be the mechanic of my laptop.
>rather than throwing it in the bin and paying $2k+ for another lottery ticket.
Or you know, buying Applecare for it, and having the customer support that most people have rated as #1 in satisfaction in relevant surveys in the US for more than a decade.
>And Trump managed to get elected president. I guess that says more about the average consumer than about the product they're selling.
Well, Hillary got the popular vote, so where does that leave your argument?
>When was it ever?
Yes, since it's inception. In fact the competition for the first 2-3 years was so bad, it was laughed out of the market (not to mention the first competitors managed to cost even more than the iPad itself).