[Roritharr]

Not everyone is a webdeveloper that has to link some pngs into some text file and MAYBE batch process some images. There's people with heavy workloads who notice. I really don't understand that attitude. "Because I don't need it, nobody would need it."

[hyperbovine]

I do compute heavy stuff but from time to time but it's the sort of thing that would slow down the new chips just as easily as the old. But on average, a laptop from four years ago handles everything I can throw at it easily. If you purchased computer hardware at any point during the 90s or early 2000s, that's amazing.

[Roritharr]

I sometimes render video. I've seen more than 4 times increase in rendering times Jumping from my 2012 highend XPS to a late 2015 XPS. That means i can render the same video 8 times a day instead of two times. This gives me more correction options and its feasible to just Play around more with Codec settings...

So many people here Talk like Moores law suddenly stopped at all in the early 2010s...

[exclusiv]

You know the vast majority of consumers need less resources than a developer though.

So what's with the "because I need it, everyone would need it" attitude?

[zeveb]

> So what's with the "because I need it, everyone would need it" attitude?

The problem with Apple (well, a problem with Apple; they've more than one) is that if you need more then you are completely and totally out of luck.

So it becomes 'since not enough people need it, I can't have it.'

[jasoncchild]

This is true, and an obvious business decision. I assume if they offered more options (CPU, ram, etc) consumers would certainly buy them. I also assume that each permutation of the product will compound the logistics around manufacturing, marketing and so on.

[TheCoelacanth]

The vast majority of consumers don't buy a high-end laptop like a rMBP.