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[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 44 points 6 months ago

Replace the macbook with a beaten up Thinkpad with 4th-5th gen Intel CPU, then it's more realistic.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah, who the hell associates macs with higher competence? Before the 00s, I associated mac users with stumbling on the worse option but not realizing it, after the 00s, wanting to follow trends and/or overpay for hardware to seem rich. They've always been form over function, and simplicity over power, which are things that novice uses look for, not more experienced ones.

Or maybe more experienced ones when most of those experiences went badly and little was learned.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Advertising, and Apple buying up some professional software to discontinue their non-Apple versions (as well as disabling customization as "they know better than the users") made it equal with "professionalism".