MacBook Neo

Up until Tahoe, I felt every version of macOS made my Macs feel snappier and have features I wanted For me the green line was steady up and then dropped off a cliff But with the Neo, it's gonna come back around. 8gb is going to have apple refining their os to run better and hopefully Tahoe will be a

It's just the price and segment. 8GB on a MacBook Pro (which, in 2024, had a starting price of $1,599 despite having only 8GB of RAM) is horrible, and was never OK. 8GB on a MacBook Neo (which, in 2026 has a starting price of just $599) is perfectly fine. 24GB should be the minimum in 2026 (for a pr

You know, I've been thinking about this thing for the last few days. And the reality is, Apple just has so much brand equity, and so many people prefer Mac to Windows, that there's really nothing a windows laptop maker can do to beat it. The reality is, around the $600 price point, there's a bunch o

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

As a non-neo apple-enjoyer, I'm kinda stoked that this is going to force them to keep the goalposts low for at least a couple more years. Just because a laptop comes with 16gig, doesn't mean I want the OS to use 16 - leave some for me, damnit. The longer they have to target 8, the more of my ram is

Well said! As someone who was (and still is) always a Windows user primarily because of gaming, Macs were never appealing to me for a variety of reasons. Having said that, ever since the M series chips and everything outside of gaming, its been hard for Windows users to argue against the efficiency

He mentions Apple's vertical integration advantage, which is indeed a very valid point. It also means that they can deliver better value, unlike Windows laptops where Microsoft, the chipmaker and OEM are fighting for margin scraps. But another thing is the laptop formula. You can find plenty of Wind

Good review. My takeaways from reading reviews is this: Most people only do bursty things (eg. open an app, move a file) or low-resource things (eg. play a movie) so the chip is more than sufficient for that—in fact its speedy for that. And any sustained stuff (eg. games, music production, video edi

It's 8GB because that's what the A18 Pro was built with. They weren't going to spin up a new chip just for the Neo. MacOS is, like iOS, surprisingly efficient when it comes to RAM. With the fast SSD connectivity page swaps to disk are fast enough the average user won't notice. Especially when said u

The Neo is still damn impressive for new users. It gets 120fps easy in regular Minecraft on maximum graphics WITH 3 YouTube tabs and discord open in the background. macOS can do absolutely crazy stuff with its memory management model that windows just can't hold a candle to. Oh, it also gets near 60