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When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
19•ddrmaxgt37•1d ago

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prngl•1h ago
Resonates. Reminds me of old Thinkpads. Cheap sometimes means accessible, simple, minimal, functional.
readthenotes1•1h ago
"Back then, Porsche was not in the fantastic position it is in today. Its model lineup was aging. "

Kinda hard to take this article seriously...

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-deliver...

TacticalCoder•56m ago
No it's correct. When the 968 came out it was the absolutely worst years ever for Porsche: they were nearly completely bankrupt and Porsche ceasing to exist was actually on the table. They were selling as little as 15 000 cars in a full year in 1992 or something like that (compared to nearly 60 K, nearly 4x as much, in 1986). Compared that to nearly 300 000 today and an insane lineup.

Sure, the EU pretty much killed its auto car industry, offering the markets to Tesla and Chinese EVs (and there are talks of chinese buying Porsche), but Porsche has a crazy lineup compared to what it used to have: 911, Cayman, Boxster, Panamera, Taycan (the 100% EV), Macan and Cayenne and soooo many different sub-models of those (GT4, GTS, Turbo (S), Targa, GT3 (RS), GT2 (RS), S/T, S/C ...).

They just even announced a 911 GT3 S/C // convertible (heresy for some but I love it). For any Porsche enthusiast, we're pretty much living the golden age of Porsche where you can still buy a normally aspirated, stick shift, driver's car. In 2026: thank you so much Porsche for being sufficiently crazy to still do that in 2026, in an era where people are paying subscription to receive OTA updates for their EVs.

And any Porsche enthusiast knows that the early 1990s were nearly the death of Porsche. It was a close call.

BTW to anyone saying the modern Porsche aren't "real" Porsche cars, I send them love from my 911 Carrera from 1988. You can both love old and new Porsche cars.

parpfish•15m ago
Were they worse off in the 90s than they were in the late 70s? Because I’ve heard that the entry model 924 saved them from the brink in that decade.

Funny that each end of the transaxle lineage were saviors

serf•28m ago
in my car circles the 968 was seen as a total pos that was really just sort of trying to compete with the RX-7 and Fairlady, do a worse job at being a good sports car than them, and push the brand into further cheapened territory towards the every-person for the sake of financial incentive while inflating the cost of their premium offering, the 911.

1:1 example, but i'm not sure those were the points being made here.

havaloc•1m ago
I bought a Neo to "replace" an M3 MacBook Air "travel/out of the house/outside" laptop. Are there drawbacks? Most certainly, but it feels like something special, and I enjoy the slightly smaller form factor. The main drawback is perhaps the most surprising, the screen, which is really good at 500 nits, draws a disproportionate amount of energy compared to the rest of the system, so you get about 3.5 in bright sunlight / maximum brightness.

As the only IT person in an 80 person unit, I can say the Neo trounces Dell Latitudes in a lot of ways, those have awful 250 nit screens out of the box, and they are nearly $1,200!

chillfox•1m ago
I am so tired of everything electronic only coming in black and maybe gray.

I like colors!

So it's nice to see apple finally bringing a bit of color back.

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When the cheap one is the cool one

https://arun.is/blog/cheap-cool/
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