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Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by pfannkuchen »

tonymet wrote: post #13
ndr42 wrote: post #6

Cook: "Mac just had its best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers." I don't doubt that it will sell well (I ordered one myself) but I really dislike this kind of marketing. I would like to get some numbers not "best launch on a Tuesday in a year that ends on 6..." Edit: (Apple stopped reporting sales numbers in late 2018)

The reporting and headline are even worse. “Best launch week ever” says nothing about sales.

Doesn’t it mean that it sold more units in its first week on the market than any past Mac? How does that say nothing about sales? It’s literally about sales numbers, they are just using a relative metric instead of an absolute metric.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by bigyabai »

didip wrote: post #81
nickjj wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The competition at this price point is weak. Is it though? 6 months ago for $575, I picked up a 15" 1080p IPS display laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores / 16 threads), 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, Radeon 680M iGPU that can use up to 8 GB VRAM and a 1 TB NVME SSD with a backlight keyboard, a bunch of USB ports and HDMI port. It weighs the same as a MBP and comes with a 2 year manufacturer warranty. It's upgradable to 6…

What you just described is not better than Macbook Neo.

Sure it is. It's even better than the M-series, I bought a similar mini PC for my home theater and it's flawless.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by Archit3ch »

nodesocket wrote: post #41

Neo is wily popular, but don't expect it to generate significant profits for Apple (disclosure I'm a AAPL shareholder). I assume the profit/profit margin on Neo is paper thin.

1) The way to manufacture things cheaply is to do it at scale, and Neo has that in spades.

2) They will generate more profits than the hardware itself. You're not counting services and ecosystem. Now you got a new matching iPhone to go with your Neo, and an iWatch, an iPad, an iPencil...

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

#104

Post by isjdiwjxiwj »

ksec wrote: post #88

I actually liked the Design of Neo more so than the Air. It is just more practical. I also like thin bezel rather than no / minimal bezel. I still haven't found any concrete evidence but I think the Key travel on Neo is at least 1-2mm higher than Air and Pro. And back to the good old MacBook Pro Early 2015 era keyboard. If it could make the trackpad completely silent and an A19 Pro with 12GB, double the SSD speed wou…

> If it could make the trackpad completely silent and an A19 Pro with 12GB, double the SSD speed would have been perfect. Would have loved M5 with 16GB Memory but I guess that eats into Air.

What you’re asking for is an Air.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

#105

Post by isjdiwjxiwj »

didip wrote: post #76
longislandguido wrote: post #8

Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created. I counted 0 net improvements and countless new bugs. Apple is having their Windows ME moment. It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses. It's all about the software they would say. The chickens have come home to roost.

What’s so bad about it? I haven’t noticed anything different. I only need Apple ecosystem integrations, Docker, a bunch of CLI tools, Homebrew, and VSCode with Claude.

It’s mostly UI and UX issues introduced by Liquid Glass, nothing as extreme as people are making it out to be but pretty annoying in their own right.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by isjdiwjxiwj »

hammock wrote: post #58

Who knew, people just wanted Apple to make cheaper products. People have been asking for iPhone SE to come back for what feels like decades, maybe they will do that next.

The iPhone SE was merely rebranded to iPhone (n)e. Exact same thing. Exact same product category.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

#108

Post by jrmg »

baal80spam wrote: post #4
imeron wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh I think Microsoft got the memo: This is Microsoft’s plan to fix Windows 11 https://www.theverge.com/news/897834/microsoft-windows-11-qu...

They SAY they got the memo. Colour me very skeptical, but we'll see.

I liked Ars Technica’s snarky take:

If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you find that reassuring? Or would you start wondering why the chef felt the need to keep saying it?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/microsoft-keeps-insi...

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by alwillis »

longislandguido wrote: post #8

Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created. I counted 0 net improvements and countless new bugs. Apple is having their Windows ME moment. It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses. It's all about the software they would say. The chickens have come home to roost.

> Apple is having their Windows ME moment.

As someone who lived through the early days of Windows, macOS Tahoe and Windows ME aren’t in the same universe.

> It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses.

It's meaningful that a product line that's 41 years old had its best launch for customers new to the platform. That's unprecedented in the computer industry.

Re: Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch

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Post by robotresearcher »

nickjj wrote: post #65
kube-system wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, but the $600 MacBooks are coming straight for the $600 plastic shitbox windows laptops. The competition at this price point is weak.

> The competition at this price point is weak. Is it though? 6 months ago for $575, I picked up a 15" 1080p IPS display laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores / 16 threads), 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, Radeon 680M iGPU that can use up to 8 GB VRAM and a 1 TB NVME SSD with a backlight keyboard, a bunch of USB ports and HDMI port. It weighs the same as a MBP and comes with a 2 year manufacturer warranty. It's upgradable to 6…

> 1080p

> It weighs the same as a MBP

A much larger laptop with less than half the number of display pixels is not really the same market. And how's that battery life?

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