is it not basically just an iPhone? (I have not had a mac since the classic mac)
I think this is a play to get more into schools and businesses.
The point is to get to "Macbooks with detatchable keyboards" then discontinue the iPad.
I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks
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#22this isn’t a real story. check the OP’s account history. day old account, slop blog. OP posting slop replies
I'm intrigued, unlike most slop they don't seem to be trying to sell anything, and it doesn't have most of the superficial tells. We'll find out if https://alexandmanu.com/photos/ ever exists.
Edit: I take it back, I clicked through to "all posts" which makes it much more obvious that it's slop.
Re: I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks
#23> i paid $599 for this disappointment. the thinkpad cost me $180 on ebay like seven years ago and i think it’s mocking me now. The guy is comparing a $200 ebay thinkpad with linux compared to a macbook with a modern operating system. They're not the target demographic, I can tell you right now schools and (non-tech) parent's aren't going to buy their kids ebay laptops with linux on them. You might as well say the neo…
The Thinkpad also likely cost far more than $600 when new. Even a several-year-old flagship laptop is going to be superior in some respects than a brand new laptop designed and produced to cost as little as possible.
Re: I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks
#24> i paid $599 for this disappointment. the thinkpad cost me $180 on ebay like seven years ago and i think it’s mocking me now. The guy is comparing a $200 ebay thinkpad with linux compared to a macbook with a modern operating system. They're not the target demographic, I can tell you right now schools and (non-tech) parent's aren't going to buy their kids ebay laptops with linux on them. You might as well say the neo…
The Thinkpad also likely cost far more than $600 when new. Even a several-year-old flagship laptop is going to be superior in some respects than a brand new laptop designed and produced to cost as little as possible.
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Re: I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks
#25I wonder if the target market for this thing is like my aged parents who basically use their phones for everything, even when it's obviously a painful experience, but they don't want a full-blown computer. Kind of like a more intentional version of an ipad w/keyboard? I'm not sure I fully understand what the diff is between ipad w/keyboard and the Neo.. price, I suppose.
And macOS. The Neo's 8GiB of ram has been talked to death, but at the end of the day, iPadOS isn't macOS, which has a window manager with floating windows vs iPadOS' (hacky) side-by-side mode.
Doesn't iPadOS have floating windows now? https://support.apple.com/en-us/125309
Re: I bought the MacBook Neo and it sucks
#26I saw a post on a subreddit earlier where someone was considering getting rid of their 2019 Macbook Pro with an i9 and 32GB of ram, and so many of the comments were egging the poster on and saying it was an upgrade. Terrible idea. It's cool that Apple are entering the budget space, but the hype around the Neo is nuts. edit: found it https://old.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/1s2tdrm/is_the_...
That specific Macbook Pro model is famously bad to the extent that people have tried to suggest Apple made that generation intentionally bad to make the m1 look more revolutionary. The Neo's still not going to be better performance when plugged in, but it's a more reasonable comparison than the stats suggests.
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#27I don't understand why installing 47 distros and it surviving two operating systems they didn't mean to install has anything to do with the hardware. It seems like the main complaint is that it is slow. I am not sure what all the other bits are about.
A few days late but I've since learned that 47 is just Sonnet 4.6's favourite "random" number.