MacBook Neo

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

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.

I don’t know why people always turn to conspiracy theories when more prosaic reasons are usually sitting right there. “Air” is just a marketing name now and long since stopped necessarily meaning “the lightest”. Apple doesn’t need to protect it. Apple has talked a lot about the new aluminum machinin

I can see the Macbook Neo becoming the new target platform for game developers everywhere. I'll have whatever you're smoking. Even at the numbers Neo is going to sell, that won't entice devolpers to macos unless Apple is going to sling some huge money around and provide good dedicated devolpment and

Well the Framework is almost double the price as the Neo, have a plastic outer shell, looks like a kids toy, don't have Apple Store and Genius Bar to educate and help the consumer, have very bad quality control, worse memory performance (single channel SODIMM vs dual channel soldered NAND) and a wor

Fun fact: The aluminum body is NOT doing its job lol. There is literally nothing connecting the SOC to the aluminum body, the neo literally has no cooling and is relying on hopes and dreams when doing sustained loads. Meanwhile if you spend $5-$10 on a thermalpad and take the 5 minutes to add it, yo

I honestly wonder if apple will keep releasing more neos As they keep using newer and more powerful and more capable iphone chips wouldn’t that kinda eat into the casual macbook air audience? Typically a macbook air buyer just wants something that can browse the web, watch movies, process documents

Most teachers don't need "real" laptop things and Chromebooks are more secure and easier to manage than Apple products. Our director of technology even daily drives a Chromebook (and no he is not inept). The negative attitude towards Apple in this subreddit or many other technology driven subreddits

It’s the price. That’s it. It’s accessible because of the price. Nothing about mac os or even this MacBook has changed. Hell, the neo specifically has regressions like the trackpad. Doesn’t matter. The price is literally the only thing anyone cares about. Any argument to say otherwise will be met wi

I don't think anyone who knows much about the mobile sector believes Apple phones (or other hardware, for that matter), is bad quality. iPhones used to have terrible battery life, but those days are mostly gone, and the competition wasn't really better back then. The real problem is pricing. And it'