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MacBook Neo
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Re: MacBook Neo
#902This is a major challenge to Microsoft. A 13-inch Surface Laptop costs $899 [1], that's 50% more than an equivalent MacBook! And even at that higher price the Surface Laptop doesn't have a good screen: it uses 150% scaling (as opposed to the ideal 200%) which means you have subtle display artifacts. Other than Microsoft nobody even makes decent laptops in the Windows world. I am typing this on an Lenovo Yoga, it has…
The LG Gram is incredible, 17 inch thin light and powerful. However it has one of the worst keyboards I've ever used.
Re: MacBook Neo
#903Still can't compete with a used ThinkPad from ebay.
Re: MacBook Neo
#904List of differences from the MacBook Air: * Only supports 8 GB of unified memory * No MagSafe * One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s * No Thunderbolt support means the Neo cannot drive either of Apple’s new Studio Displays. However, it can push a 4K display with 60Hz refresh rate over USB-C. * “Just” 16 hours of battery life, compared to the 18 hours quoted for the 13-inch MacBook…
The last point made me chuckle, good catch :D
Re: MacBook Neo
#905Basic question: will this be able to run any app built for M chip? I suppose so because both a18 and the M chips are ARM?
Yes
Re: MacBook Neo
#906This is an iPad, with touch screen taken away and keyboard built in
Same chip (A series), same RAM (8gb), same screen size, probably the exact same camera.
iPad starts at $349 + $199 for Magic Keyboard folio.
$549 for essentially the same thing + a touchscreen.
Re: MacBook Neo
#907List of differences from the MacBook Air: * Only supports 8 GB of unified memory * No MagSafe * One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s * No Thunderbolt support means the Neo cannot drive either of Apple’s new Studio Displays. However, it can push a 4K display with 60Hz refresh rate over USB-C. * “Just” 16 hours of battery life, compared to the 18 hours quoted for the 13-inch MacBook…
> No camera notch
This is a positive though.
> The Apple on the lid isn’t shiny
The light has stopped shining at Apple for a bit now
Re: MacBook Neo
#9088GB of RAM? In 2026?!!!
Xcode and some browser tabs are going make this slow AF.
Re: MacBook Neo
#909List of differences from the MacBook Air: * Only supports 8 GB of unified memory * No MagSafe * One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s * No Thunderbolt support means the Neo cannot drive either of Apple’s new Studio Displays. However, it can push a 4K display with 60Hz refresh rate over USB-C. * “Just” 16 hours of battery life, compared to the 18 hours quoted for the 13-inch MacBook…
> No camera notch This is a positive though. > The Apple on the lid isn’t shiny The light has stopped shining at Apple for a bit now
I think parent means reflective. In the videos it looks like just a slightly different color. On the other MacBooks it is polished metal.
Re: MacBook Neo
#910A perfectly performant, luxury-feeling laptop with a secure OS for under $500? This thing is going to eat Chromebooks and budget HP shitboxes for lunch. Sure a lot of niceties are missing but compared to the experience most people have with their $500 laptops, this is going to be night and day.
Absolutely. Cheaper Chromebooks are terrible machines. Those screens should be illegal and probably causes a lot of eye strain and headaches. Same with a lot of the sub $800 PC laptops. The colors aren't even... colors. The trackpad? Yuck. Everything else falls apart right outside of the warranty period of just 90 days or 1 year. Oh and good luck spending the first day just uninstalling/formatting everything from scratch and getting the vendor specific features to work again.
For people who have always wanted an Apple laptop, this is it. The niceties are not necessary, and perfect little things to cut out to bring the price down for the masses.