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Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by secabeen »

p1necone wrote: post #573
grumpyprole wrote: post #512

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Yes, it will also have 5 mins of battery life when unplugged and have a power adapter the size of a shoe box. I tried a similar machine from Lenovo at work and quickly returned it.

My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'. Like you say most windows laptops have such garbage battery life already that it's not practical to use them unplugged.

Eh, I want some battery, it's nice when you need to move rooms or someone kicks the power cable out. Even 15 minutes would be enough for a chonkster machine like this.

Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by arkh »

p1necone wrote: post #573
grumpyprole wrote: post #512

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it will also have 5 mins of battery life when unplugged and have a power adapter the size of a shoe box. I tried a similar machine from Lenovo at work and quickly returned it.

My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'. Like you say most windows laptops have such garbage battery life already that it's not practical to use them unplugged.

> 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'

So, a simple computer? You can even choose your keyboard, mouse and screens.

Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by brailsafe »

p1necone wrote: post #573
grumpyprole wrote: post #512

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it will also have 5 mins of battery life when unplugged and have a power adapter the size of a shoe box. I tried a similar machine from Lenovo at work and quickly returned it.

My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'. Like you say most windows laptops have such garbage battery life already that it's not practical to use them unplugged.

Kind of an interesting idea. Only the portability but none of the mobile computing capability.

It does kind of seem like, outside a few select models, the PC market just gets the laptop part of laptops so so wrong. Bad touchpads, bad screens, no battery life, unpleasant industrial design usually, crammed with crapware and other bullshit. I hand it to the few companies that do try harder to remedy these.

Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by NetMageSCW »

dmitrygr wrote: post #138

> Because the Neo’s only camera-in-use indicator is in the menu bar, that seems obviously possible to circumvent via software. Not as obvious as the author implies. Apple has some docs out, IIRC, explaining how it is implemented. Worth a read...

I can’t find where Apple really explains how it works.

Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by benjiro3000 »

deathanatos wrote: post #559
ho_schi wrote: post #200

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The last competitor remaining is Lenovo with the ThinkPads and pre-installed Linux [1]. But even Lenovo cripples them: * You need to be very careful. Select alwaysCTO build with the best available display. But even then, Lenovo *removed* the HiDPI display from the X13. The only actual competitor to the MacBook Air is the ThinkPad X13. * Lenovo added useless camera humps protruding out of the panel. There is a thick b…

Even just within the Thinkpad lineup, their website is a mess. Let's even restrict ourselves to just T series Thinkpads. First, the page looks like it misrenders with garish, inverse-color boxes breaking the apparent margin of the page. Then we get to the models: * ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 (14" Snapdragon) Laptop * ThinkPad T16g Gen 3 (16" Intel) Laptop * ThinkPad T1g Gen 8 (16" Intel) Laptop * ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 (14" AMD…

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Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by brailsafe »

arkh wrote: post #603
p1necone wrote: post #573

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'. Like you say most windows laptops have such garbage battery life already that it's not practical to use them unplugged.

> 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all' So, a simple computer? You can even choose your keyboard, mouse and screens.

It seems ridiculous on the surface, since you'd think you'd just buy a desktop or something, but with a laptop with no battery, and hypothetically better everything else, it would eliminate the need for a bunch of other peripherals

Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by NetMageSCW »

frankacter wrote: post #10
sockaddr wrote: post #9

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Your amazon links are broken. But I think you're missing the point of this thing. This isn't for people that really even care about performance. It's for people that want a laptop that works with their iPhone, does all the things their school needs them to do in a browser, and doesn't come with a complete dogsh*t OS, and isn't of dubious quality like an HP or a "NIAKUN", whatever that is. Now the color options, that'…

>Your amazon links are broken. Thanks. Fixed. >This isn't for people that really even care about performance. It's for people that want a laptop that works with their iPhone That was my conclusion to my comment in my original. The title of "no other budget laptop can compete" is not just sensationalized, it is factually wrong. It should have been "the least expensive macbook yet comes with a catch"

No that title is perfectly correct. You just can’t see past your technical blinders to what compete really means.

Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by benjiro3000 »

Kirby64 wrote: post #252
ryandvm wrote: post #233

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Cute, and while I will agree that Apple hardware is generally superior or at least an excellent value, and OS X is miles beyond Windows in usability, I can't in good conscience recommend a Mac on principle. They impose obsessive control over their walled garden, constant pressure to use Apple ecosystem products, and they are staunchly opposed to interoperability regardless of it being an obviously anti-consumer tacti…

As opposed to Microsoft, the good guys right now? I don’t see how incessant privacy violations, selling your data, and general shovelware behavior of Windows 11 is better. In many ways, it’s much worse in my view.

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Re: The MacBook Neo

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Post by brailsafe »

secabeen wrote: post #601
p1necone wrote: post #573

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My laptop is always either plugged into a dock at work, or plugged into a dock or just a power supply at home. I feel like there's an untapped market for 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all'. Like you say most windows laptops have such garbage battery life already that it's not practical to use them unplugged.

Eh, I want some battery, it's nice when you need to move rooms or someone kicks the power cable out. Even 15 minutes would be enough for a chonkster machine like this.

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