This could be useful as a remote-access device for something that has a decent amount of RAM, I suppose, but how can anyone do anything outside of light-duty work with 8GB? At some point a Pi + battery/screen case is legitimately better.
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MacBook Neo
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Re: MacBook Neo
#82How 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.
First guess: making things small (and durable) is more expensive than making things big.
Re: MacBook Neo
#83For 800 euros, with 8 GB RAM, and a mobile GPU?!? No thanks.
Re: MacBook Neo
#84I wonder if Apple is positioning these to counter Google's Chromebooks? The pricing makes sense, especially as lately I've seen some pretty expensive Chrome devices: £500 - £700... which is not that far off from base Macbook Air, but without the quirky limitations.
As an aside, I have been a firm ChromeOS user since 2013; since my computing life at work is pretty complicated, so I wanted to keep it really simple at home. For the most part, this setup worked just fine.
However, lately... I've found the Pixel line to be very underwhelming and expensive - add to that the ever increasing cost of Chromebooks... What can I say? Moving over to the Great Walled Garden of Apple makes sense. I'll probably buy one of these.
Re: MacBook Neo
#85~~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
They literally mention in the video that it contains Apple Intelligence.
Re: MacBook Neo
#86256gb and 8gb of ram, here we go again. Old gen macbook air seems a better deal, isn't it?
Re: MacBook Neo
#87How 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.
For starters, no royalties to pay Qualcomm.
Re: MacBook Neo
#88Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
The US price doesn't include tax, Denmark price I assume does.
Re: MacBook Neo
#89Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
It's the 25% VAT. Pre VAT, it's ~$685.
With state sales tax of 8% where I live, the base would cost me $648.
So not a huge difference.
Re: MacBook Neo
#90Interesting how it runs on the A18. I wonder if this means they will try to unify macOS and iOS within this decade.
Haven't they? I can download iOS apps from the app store, sign them again with my own keys for MacOS, run them natively on my MacBook without any issues. Same binaries, same APIs. It all just works.