MacBook Neo

This is a slam dunk for people who need an iPad but want to run a real desktop OS. Perfect for small kids and students. It’s not designed to be docked to a monitor or high end peripherals. It’s meant for light productivity and entertainment on the couch or at a kitchen table. Perfect for non pro hom

An equivalent M5 MacBook Air now costs $400 less than a similarly specced Surface Laptop, and nothing in Microsoft’s lineup comes close to the MacBook Neo’s value-for-the-money. Apple, unironically the value choice now, especially with the Neo competing iwth cheap plastic shell Windows laptops.

I have never and ordinarily would never buy an Apple product at full price. However, I was in the market for a new laptop for school and was facing a barren wasteland of $300 - $700 Windows laptops and chromebooks. I saw a review of the Neo, found the Apple education discount page, and ordered it. T

Meanwhile Apple introduce Neo MacBook. Zero innovation. Suckier version of existing laptop.

If you are concerned about 8gb of ram, you definitely are not the target audience for the thing. Also go to best buy, Walmart or Currys or whatever shop you have and feel the laptops in the same price range. Most have plastic body, awful screens or specs are just junk, sometimes combination of all t

Jokes aside what Apple Silicon has done to the laptop (and now desktop) market is pretty unreal. I was always an Apple hater but the way they manage to revive themselves over and over is something to take note of Keeping in mind Silicon is IMO their first great innovation since Jobs was alive and th

While I advocate for 16gb of RAM as standard today, it seems like most people base their opinion on PC Gaming or insanely niche high level production work. And since lots of people simply don't know about RAM and how Apple hardware and software manages it, or always want the higher numbered thing, t

The issue I find with sub £600 Windows laptops is that they’re not made for longevity. Those models are made for people who think they need a laptop, but in reality will use it once or twice before shelving it for a year or two. Then when they go back to it, they wonder why it’s so slow and end up b

If you already own a monitor & keyboard, get a Mac Mini with a M4 chip. New it’s about the same price If you want a laptop, get a refirbed Air M4 from Apple for about $300 more. To me the Neo under the hood seems more like an iPad than a Mac YMMV.

Realistically, none of these companies can do anything to respond to Apple, at least not without adopting some kind of loss-leader strategy. The Macbook Neo can only exist because Apple can leverage the strength of it's laptop and phone supply chain. The "phone" element is crucial--there's far more