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I was recently buying a Dell laptop for my sister and it boggles my mind how most other companies (maybe Framework is an except) still have dozens or even 100s of SKUs for consumer laptops. I didn't enjoy the process of looking through dozens of various lines that Dell has and then other companies like Lenovo and HP earlier in the process, just to find a "mid-range usable computer with a decent screen".

If you didn't know anything about laptops and wanted to buy your first one, it would be a nightmare to figure out what all those seemingly random numbers mean on most non-Apple laptops.

Apple continues to simplify the laptop naming scheme, we're at a point where it's simply:

Air OR Pro

Small screen OR big screen

All other details can be configured in the buying flow but there's not much to think about if you just want a simple laptop.

parent numbers 2 years ago

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