MacBook Neo

The gap here is that Apple forcibly moved everybody over to ARM. Windows never even tried, because one of their major selling point has always been extensive backwards compatibility spanning decades. The Neo "works" because Macbook users were already forced to upgrade or die. The Surface RT didn't b

I fear this strategy has two problems: 1) ordinary folks don't know (and can't know) the usability of most budget laptops and 2) sales are temporary and tricky to get right. With the ongoing fervor surrounding Apple's launch of the MacBook Neo at $599, I'm having a lot of fun sniffing out Windows la

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

There are absolutely Windows laptops that can compete with Apple's lineup, they are pretty expensive though. E.g. Dell's new XPS or Lenovo's X9 15p are easily in the top charts next to Apple's appropriate competition. That's because Intel's latest two generations have finally delivered but in terms

Desktop side, Thunderbolt 5 and an external SSD helps a bit. Battery wise, hoping to see the Neo's battery setup make it's way into the rest of the laptops, just recently paid a local shop to take the battery out of a still otherwise functional 2017 MBP. Overall Windows is such a mess, and I'm not g

"and a chip whose single-core performance beats most of the fastest Windows laptops costing multiple times as much" It will cost 700 EUR+ here in Europe. For like 800, you can get x86 laptops with comparable single core performance + multiple times the RAM and SSD ... and you won't be locked into Ap

Personally I would move staff to Chromebook Plus models but the Macbook Neo does seem to be compelling from the reviews (not education centric) I've been seeing and all the pricing randomness with both Chromeboks and Windows laptops. I'd say it's a browser machine that still has some chops to handle

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'

Another episode of Casey explaining that Tailscale is not a VPN, because it does [ things that describe a VPN ]. Also… I get the fun dichotomy between "the MacBook Neo will never play a big role in schools" and "we're evaluating the MacBook Neo at our school", but you'd think one of the three hosts

The cheapest Mac you can get is 600 dollars. You can get a windows machine on a computer that costs 100 dollars. But that's not the only reason. Apple only plays well with its own devices. You might spend 600 USD on a Mac neo because it works for what you need. But you can only transfer files ( easi