[linuxftw]

> $4000+

That's an excessive number. Great laptops can be had for under $1000.

Obviously, you could spend over $4000, but I don't think this is a reasonable number for most people. Even most 'computer' people. And who still buys tablets anyway?

[hacym]

iPad sales in 2018:

Q1 2018 13.17 million Q2 2018 9.11 million Q3 2018 11.55 million Q4 2018 9.67 million

I think a few people still buy them...

So if you spend $2500 on a MacBook Pro, $800 on an iPad, and then $1000 on your iPhone, boom, you're over $4000.

$4000 doesn't go very far.

[beatgammit]

Sure, it doesn't go very far in the Apple ecosystem, but you can get a solid set of equipment for much less. For examine, a Thinkpad will run $500-1500 (depending on the model), a solid tablet can be found for ~$500, and plenty of decent phones are ~$500 (mine was $250). Altogether, that's <$2000 for a solid set of devices.

[hacym]

OK -- but no one specified that, and I'd argue that Apple has the most complete and polished ecosystem available. So I think it's very fair to compare that cost of Apple products.

[JohnFen]

I haven't followed the happenings in the Apple ecosystem for quite a while, which may explain why I am honestly shocked at those prices.

[linuxftw]

It's incredible what people will pay for this stuff.

[JohnFen]

> And who still buys tablets anyway?

I do. I find them quite handy (I own 5 right now), although I admit that I use them as special-purpose devices rather than for general purpose use.

[sadness2]

I do machine learning and that budget it too small.

[flukus]

Why not buy a $1000 server and remote into it instead of trying to run a server workload on a portable device?