• Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 days ago

    The price is also reported to have climbed from an early projection of $3,000 to around $3,900, placing it well above Huawei’s MateBook Fold, a similar 18-inch model that sells for about $3,400 in China. Huawei’s machine, however, features a Kirin X90 chip built on China’s two-year-old 7nm process – a reminder that China remains several generations behind Western fabs. By contrast, Apple’s collaboration with Samsung keeps it tied to the cutting edge but at a much higher cost in both engineering and price.

    $3,900 for a tablet (even a foldable one) does not sound like a viable proposition.

    • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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      It’s about prestige. Once it catches on and rich people are seen with it, normal people will start buying them too to look prestigious too.