<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>lucaspiller</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not really the point - other manufactures make laptops that are much more powerful than Apple. The ThinkPad P50 can be configured with a Xeon, 4K display and 64GB RAM for nearly the same price as the base 15&amp;quot; MacBook Pro.&lt;p&gt;Ok maybe it doesn&amp;#x27;t have all day battery life - but most people, especially people who want &amp;quot;Pro&amp;quot; hardware, probably only need a few hours max.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had an Air for two years, and I don&amp;#x27;t think I&amp;#x27;ve ever been in a situation where I&amp;#x27;ve used the full battery - all international flights and trains I&amp;#x27;ve been on have had power sockets, so I can charge on the go. Plus thanks to USB-C, you can use a power bank to charge your laptop if you need more power:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;3028132&amp;#x2F;consumer-electronics&amp;#x2F;best-usb-c-battery-pack-review.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.macworld.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;3028132&amp;#x2F;consumer-electronics...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apple is no longer giving consumers a choice, before there was the MacBook (old one) if you wanted a more-affordable entry level machine, the Air if you needed ok performance but great portability, and the Pro if you wanted performance in a laptop package.&lt;p&gt;Now everything is lumped together with portability as the #1 priority. If Apple had just launched this as a new version of the Air I don&amp;#x27;t think anyone would be complaining so much.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicky0</author><text>If you need huge power why are you trying to do it in a laptop?</text></item><item><author>coderdude</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure what they&amp;#x27;re optimizing for. If they had some bad ass machine that wasn&amp;#x27;t the thinnest machine in existence I&amp;#x27;d still buy it. I own a pro and an air from the last generation and I think they suck. Give me something worth the bucks and tack on a few millimeters to make it happen. I absolutely will not pay for their current trajectory of lackluster stats and a small physical footprint. I need better. If that means bigger, they should get over it and deliver.</text></item><item><author>mantis369</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life.&lt;p&gt;I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I&amp;#x27;m going to delay my upgrade for 6-8 months so that I can see if something better than the new MBP comes along.&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM</title><url>https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/</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>sadfsdfsadfsd</author><text>Because we have to take our work with us? To meetings, to workspaces, etc. And, we&amp;#x27;re willing to pay a premium for high power, high portability.&lt;p&gt;I could probably go buy a big workstation&amp;#x2F;gaming style pc laptop, but I&amp;#x27;d rather pay more for a lightweight model.</text><parent_chain><item><author>nicky0</author><text>If you need huge power why are you trying to do it in a laptop?</text></item><item><author>coderdude</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure what they&amp;#x27;re optimizing for. If they had some bad ass machine that wasn&amp;#x27;t the thinnest machine in existence I&amp;#x27;d still buy it. I own a pro and an air from the last generation and I think they suck. Give me something worth the bucks and tack on a few millimeters to make it happen. I absolutely will not pay for their current trajectory of lackluster stats and a small physical footprint. I need better. If that means bigger, they should get over it and deliver.</text></item><item><author>mantis369</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the imperatives to make the machine thinner and increase battery life.&lt;p&gt;I would have paid for a 32 or even 64 GB model, but instead I&amp;#x27;m going to delay my upgrade for 6-8 months so that I can see if something better than the new MBP comes along.&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that a Pro machine does not need to be the thinnest available model.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM</title><url>https://macdaddy.io/macbook-pro-limited-16gb-ram/</url></story>