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Originally Posted by kscherer
That statement is the big one, and it's why the base Pro should not exist.
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I'm leaning towards agreeing. They should've just killed off the 8th-gen (what used to be the "Escape") altogether and simplify the MacBook line-up even further. Maybe they're just mostly getting rid of stock (aside from the keyboard — they probably don't want to manufacture the Butterfly* any more and/or don't want to further increase the burden of support cases + lawsuits, so they replaced that on all MacBooks ASAP) and then quietly discontinuing it.
I'm not looking forward to a time when the starting price of an MBP is $1799, but let's be honest, that has basically been true since October 2016.
*) though some iPad rubberized keyboards supposedly use that internally?
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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
Would a tricked-out (processor and RAM-wise...10th-generation i7 and 16GB RAM) MacBook Air at $1,449 hold its own against the two "straggler" Pros with the 8th-generation i5 and just the 8GB RAM they come with stock?).
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For most consumer use cases, yes. It gets trickier to answer for stuff that taxes the CPU for many minutes — video encoding, say. But then video encoding probably enjoys having more RAM, so…?
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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
The kind of person who'd be okay with a "pro" notebook at 8GB RAM and 256GB would surely be served by an upgraded Air.
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Yeah. It's not a great base config for a "Pro" at this point.
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Originally Posted by kscherer
Value wise, I would take the Air. The numbers are so close that the performance gap isn't large enough to justify the Pro no matter what.
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Well, for short bursts, yeah. The wildcard is lengthier workloads.