<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>bcrosby95</author><text>Despite their price, there was a time when macbooks were only 5-10% more than the PC equivalent laptop.  People that were complaining about its price were inevitably comparing it to bottom of the barrel PC laptops, not higher end business laptops that had comparable specs.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t priced out any recent macbooks to know if that&amp;#x27;s still true though.  Glancing at the new 16&amp;quot; macbook pro, it seems like it might be reasonably priced for what you&amp;#x27;re getting.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>If people continue to pay Apple&amp;#x27;s (sometimes) outrageous prices, why should they lower them?&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m just as guilty, having spent over two grand on MBPs multiple times!)</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>Deals that Apple does not pass on to their customers.</text></item><item><author>faitswulff</author><text>The comments are mentioning the Xeons in Mac Pros and how Apple should switch. I have no factual basis for this, but I figure Apple has got to be using AMD&amp;#x27;s new chips as leverage to get some pretty sweet deals on Intel silicon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15318/amds-64core-threadripper-3990x-3990-sd</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kevin_thibedeau</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t feel too bad. 386 PCs used to sell for $15k in 2020 dollars.</text><parent_chain><item><author>jlgaddis</author><text>If people continue to pay Apple&amp;#x27;s (sometimes) outrageous prices, why should they lower them?&lt;p&gt;(I&amp;#x27;m just as guilty, having spent over two grand on MBPs multiple times!)</text></item><item><author>wmf</author><text>Deals that Apple does not pass on to their customers.</text></item><item><author>faitswulff</author><text>The comments are mentioning the Xeons in Mac Pros and how Apple should switch. I have no factual basis for this, but I figure Apple has got to be using AMD&amp;#x27;s new chips as leverage to get some pretty sweet deals on Intel silicon.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>AMD’s 64-Core Threadripper 3990X, only $3990 Coming February 7th</title><url>https://www.anandtech.com/show/15318/amds-64core-threadripper-3990x-3990-sd</url></story>