Linus Defends Apple's $1,000 Monitor Stand

Employee health Care part convinced me

"...I want a better chair..." Real Boss: "What kind do you have? Instead of: It's not in the budget.

After this, my respect for Linus has sky rocketed. Shows how he is not just some of those bandwagon plebs, he actually has a brain for himself and can think critically with it.

"F*** you is implied" That should absolutely be Apple's motto :D

Linus: "If you buy the cheapest phone, you'd expect that it comes with no headphones" Apple: You said what?!

I work in a cleanroom. We recently bought 3 new microscopes. Each one cost over $21,000. In each system, every single part, including the POWER CABLE and INSTRUCTION MANUAL was a separate line item in the bill. I’d say Linus is right about how they’re billing this out.

All they had to do was say the monitor cost $6000, or you can delete the stand and it's $5000. It's functionally the same, but when you phrase it like that it seems like a discount rather than adding a thousand to include the stand. Doesn't really matter for the people who buy these monitors but it probably would have toned down the outrage imo

Everyone: Linus is so smart Also Linus when explaining $600 equipment: doohickey thingamabob

When James looks at that $3k memory you can see his eyes plotting how to steel it after work.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Linus's mad math skills?

Linus is the only CEO I have encountered so far that explains things in the professional world so clearly and transparantly.

Linus started his own company and is a business man. He understands "value", not "price". I could careless about 6K, 60K or even 6M if it needs to be, if the tools were going to make back itself within a short period of time. If the ProXDR is as good as Apple's claim, then the monitor is actually under priced. ( Note: Apple even admitted they hope it brings so much value to FX Editing that everyone in the whole company chain will switch to it, making money with volume instead )

The standalone stand.

The way linus talks about helping out his employees at the end although for his own gain it's nice that he does put thought into there health.

This is why I like Linus he is able to see the point and explain it well

He’s right about the MacBook, it became a non-Pro machine when they changed the design, it feels like a consumer based product at premium price.

I think the thing with Pro gear is: At this level, you may already have all the accessories you need. You may be mounting the monitor on the stand you already have, on a specialized rack, on the wall, whatever. So you don't want to spend on an overengineered stand. If you are getting the stand, you don't want to spend on the VESA mount. It's the same thing with RED cameras. You buy the sensor in a box. What other accessories you need is highly dependent on the shoots you are going to do, so you buy the accessories. But since you may be coming from another RED camera with compatible accessories, you may already have those.

Alternate title: Linus defends his purchases for 8 minutes straight

Linus could talk to a lot of corporate jargons about not being skimpy with their employees equipment / comforts. Having been in two different companies who thought saving a buck was better than having a desk that doesn't give me leg cramps, or having a chair that doesn't give me scoliosis, or even not having fucking sandpaper-like toilet paper, or even a fucking office space that's not a repurposed meeting room where 12 people barely even fit, or giving you shit for being late or leaving early when the only thing that really matters is that your work is done. This shit has got to go. We need more people like Linus that don't think about saving money at the expense of their employees wellbeing, which in turn saves the company money by keeping the employees happy and therefore healthy and eager to work.

if you're actually making money with it for a business, you're also expensing the cost. I'm a programmer, so that monitor is stupid to me. I would never buy it because I have no use for something like that. If I was a professional video editor for a movie studio, then it makes sense to have 2 of them on vesa mounts. People love to bitch, it's human nature.