#tech discourse

"That you can" is the lynchpin of this argument. In theory, a MacBook Pro is really only meant for Professional use. Apple designed it to fit the needs of someone who is using this machine creatively. Whatever that creative endeavor is doesn't matter to Apple, they're just making the tool so it can complete the tasks people ask of it.

This makes a MacBook Pro a really poor choice if all you're going to do is browse the internet or other low power tasks. That laptop will have 50x the processing power than you'd need to write an essay and load up loads of tabs researching. It'll keep up with you doing literally anything, because the tool is overkill for the task you need done. Making it a wasteful (and Expensive!!) purchase that should be avoided.

But! But but but this excludes and ignores the largest and most horrible part of capitalism. Availability. The fact of the matter is people buy what they have access to and can understand.

PLENTY of homes are poor and use Apple devices, because Apple has put in effort to make their operating systems easy to comprehend, using simple language (good for kids!) and clear labelling on their UI. This makes it easier for people to understand, and so naturally the next time they go to get a computer they get the one that they don't have to learn anything to use.

Availability, though, is the big one. Sometimes you go to AT&T on their prepaid 3G Data plan and put it on the used iPhone 6 that this guy has from a trade-in that day because that's what you can afford and your job needs you to have a working phone.

Sometimes you need a laptop to submit an application and your cousin has an old MacBook in his closet from college that you can just have.