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by dijit 86 days ago
Weird, never had an issue getting my hands on an Apple laptop of any desired configuration, even odd keyboard layouts for the region (UK and Sweden).

Had plenty of issues getting specific specification Thinkpads: because they are largely sold through resellers and they don’t stock all SKUs I suppose.
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p_ing 86 days ago
No where did I say you can’t get a hold of one, I said they don’t have the volume. They’re behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell.

The x86 market is massive and dwarfs Apple’s Mac manufacturing.

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dijit 86 days ago
I don’t buy this reasoning until there is evidence of orders going unfulfilled.

I could make 20M units of something and leave my resellers as bagholders who then have to sell years old hardware at a discount- and by the internal consistency of your logic: I would have the volumes.

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mlsu 86 days ago
Isn't this an artifact of the demand side and not the supply side?

Yes, apple shipped fewer laptops than dell in 2025. That's because Apple laptops started at $1100 in 2025.

They won't have a problem securing the chips for Mac Neo's, they're the same SOC as the iPhone. What, Apple is going to have an issue manufacturing a few million motherboards?

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