Why do all the low-end Apple laptops not have USB-C ports on the right? That's one of the main reasons I had to get a MacBook Pro.
Most people use a mouse on the right so having a wire where a mouse will be can be annoying.
MacBook Neo
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Re: MacBook Neo
#62Neo will at least help in ensuring that macOS doesn’t become too heavy for a few years.
Re: MacBook Neo
#63This is an incredible price. Lucky students.
Re: MacBook Neo
#64Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
With or without VAT? The USD price is without VAT.
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#658Gb. Fuck off no chance. Not in a world of everyone shipping fat browsers with everything. Edit: everything my kids use in their educational side is browser based or thick web apps. This is going to suck. We shouldn't be here and 8Gb should be absolutely fine, but that is not the case.
Not sure I understand your complaint - 8GB is a goodish amount of RAM for a Chromebook, the de facto lead for educational stuff. I would take this over any Chromebook, ever, in a heartbeat.
Re: MacBook Neo
#66No idea why anybody still thinks of this company as making premium devices or catering to the premium market. Tim Cook's Apple makes cheap shit for the mass market, and has for years. It's not surprising when something like this comes out for cheap, because in general Apple has been price competitive for the past decade.
And in that vein of making cheap shit for the mass market, their software quality has suffered incredibly. They no longer serve the consumer tier they used to, but their branding halo from those days is so effective that it helps them sell to this new, lower tier consumer.
Re: MacBook Neo
#67Why don’t they just allow MacOS on iPad Pro. It’s what people want.
Stating the obvious - because keeping them separate means Apple gets to double-dip on people buying more or less the same hardware twice.
Re: MacBook Neo
#68How is it Apple can make a whole laptop cheaper than the phones they sell? Phones are costing more while laptops are going down in price.
Because this is probably using a bunch of old parts that didn't get sold and are very cheap now (the a18 from last year's iPhones, etc).
It also probably doesn't have a ~60% margin.
Re: MacBook Neo
#69Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
That's around $85 more expensive once you account for the fact Danish advertised prices include VAT at a rate of 25%, whereas the US advertised price excludes sales tax.
Re: MacBook Neo
#70~~Haven't yet seen anyone comment on the apparent lack of Apple Intelligence. Makes sense due to the low amount of memory but wonder how many people won't notice that until after they buy this laptop.~~
edit: somehow missed it has Apple Intelligence - whoops