Apple's Move to Cheapen Products? Not Good Enough.

Well, this morning I received my documents from LaSalle College of the Arts that concerned my Orientation Programme and administrative matters. Also came with it is the Order Forms of all the MacBooks offered by LaSalle.

OK, let's stop there. Now I was instantly baffled by the pricing of the Apple Products. This comes after a recent move by Apple to crank out cheaper products which I still think it's nonsensical regardless.

Now here's an example:

You could say that the pricing seemed a bit reasonable but here's a thing. If I compare the Base vs my Desktop, that's the amount of money I spent to build my Gaming Rig with a Single 21.5 1080p Screen, complete with the thickest 120mm Corsair AIO Liquid Cooling that I can shove in there, SSD and 3TBs of Space, a GTX 780 which was the bulk of the cost, OC Core i7 2600K.... actually slightly less than that!

On the Laptop side:

LaSalle's Order Forms, but the MacBooks are still costly and don't have that price to performance ratio all other laptops except Razer has.

Although this has discounts across the board, it's still a freaking hefty price to pay. For example the Base MacBook Pro 13 Inch which cost 1588, I could buy Laptops much more powerful than that which cost that much. E.g. Aftershock XG13 costs the same but with a Gaming Grade GTX 860M which is tonnes better than the most powerful GPU powering the MacBook 15 Inch at a wimpy GT 750M which cost 3588 before discounts. And even a more far cry than the Base MacBook Pro's HD4000 by a whopping 84%.

Although Apple Products are very good and all, they should at the very least offer a wider customization scope and redesign their internals, at least starting with the storage. Because, who will in the right mind pay so much for 512GB PCI-E storage for their laptops! It's insane!

If you want to see the full magnitude here, if Apple can redesign the Bays to accommodate a more traditional 2.5" bays, it's easier to do a closer apples to apples comparison. Let the Aftershock X15S-V2 be the more competitive comparison, the Recommended Config is 600 bucks less. And it offers a Core i7, 8GB of RAM with the option to double that, an optical bay, a traditional sweet spot storage of SSD and HDD molded together, and the flagship GTX 880M GPU. Now look at this! You're paying less for a top end 15-Inch, more customization for storage. More ridiculous is the base config for the Aftershock Titan. Though it only has a Mechanical HDD as storage, you can always swap it out. And for the price of the MacBook Pro 15-Inch with a GT 750M GPU, you get SLI Flagship GPUs! Big difference there, Big difference.

To be reasonable, the 15 Inch MBPr should have a bare minimum of a GTX 850M with GDDR5 RAM for the price you pay for.

Apple, seriously, after looking at the order form this morning, please for the love of God, make your products cheaper and increase customization options, PLEASE! I don't want to spend a bomb right away at this point.