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ezst036 This Neo is surely going to dip into Microsoft's share of the desktop market. Reply
Penzi I’m going to quibble: it is absolutely not what he said but one can infer it from the data and it’s likely correct. But it’s not what he said… Reply
ejolson It's worth noting the original Mac started out as a cheap Lisa without enough RAM and somehow encouraged future customer loyalty. I wonder if a Fat Neo with four times the RAM will ever be released. Reply
kaalus If you could only bootcamp Windows on it, it would be a perfect laptop. Mac is a fantastic top quality piece of hardware saddled with a dysfunctional and buggy OS. Reply
Sippincider Waiting for the follow-up reviews, to see how well it runs future OS versions. Not much future-proofing in the current specs. because this device is designed for students and casual users (and priced accordingly), it does not really need that much performance. Instead, Apple focused on what the average consumer likely wants: a good experience for day-to-day tasks, such as media consumption and basic productivity Then consider an iPad? (I'm a bit jaded here. Know too many people who purchased bottom-spec machines based entirely on price, and wondered why their machines were filled up and unusably slow within a year. ) Reply
JohnyFin For these who thing NEO is great. They just opened it and inside is….mobile phone architecture! Old iPad with keyboard and screen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reply
Findecanor kaalus said: If you could only bootcamp Windows on it, it would be a perfect laptop. Mac is a fantastic top quality piece of hardware saddled with a dysfunctional and buggy OS. I doubt we'll ever see it. Apple does not publish technical manuals for their SoCs for MS to read. And I think the point with this laptop is to attract new (i.e. "Neo" :-þ ) users to use the full Mac platform and not just the hardware. Either way, I think the only way to safely run MS-Windows these days — on any hardware — would be to run it inside a virtual machine with support for snapshots so that you could roll back bad updates, and use the host OS's firewall to prevent them from getting applied when you don't want to. Your data should always be on a separate drive or partition anyway to prevent it from being affected. I've seen reports that Parallels should work on the MacBook Neo, but I dunno if it supports snapshots. Unfortunately, it is pretty expensive, but it is supposedly one of the best at binary translation. Reply
Findecanor JohnyFin said: For these who thing NEO is great. They just opened it and inside is….mobile phone architecture! Old iPad with keyboard and screen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think that says more about how ridiculously powerful "phones" have become than anything else. And they need to be that powerful only to be able to handle the bloated web pages and apps of today. The Neo's logic board is only a little smaller than the one in the MacBook Air. One thing I found weird though, is that there is nothing under the touchpad: it occupies the full thickness ( thin- ness) of the laptop in that region. The MacBook Air is constructed the same: no battery under the touchpad even though it is haptic. It didn't even need to be haptic on current MacBook Air, but it is on the Pro and the old wedge-shaped MacBook Air, so … Reply
LordVile Sippincider said: Waiting for the follow-up reviews, to see how well it runs future OS versions. Not much future-proofing in the current specs. Then consider an iPad? (I'm a bit jaded here. Know too many people who purchased bottom-spec machines based entirely on price, and wondered why their machines were filled up and unusably slow within a year. ) iPadOS is limiting for laptop tasks. It’s great as a tablet OS and has come on leaps and bounds since it separated from iOS in terms of being able to be a true laptop alternative but it’s still not a one for one PC replacement nor should it be. Having options is a good thing it’s why macOS devices should not have a touch screen as it keeps that distinction from a design perspective. Apple launched the M4 air with 8GB of RAM, it’ll likely be supported around the same time. It’s also more powerful in ST that the M1 and M2 lines both of which are going strong and have no need to be replaced. Reply
vinay2070 JohnyFin said: For these who thing NEO is great. They just opened it and inside is….mobile phone architecture! Old iPad with keyboard and screen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 The problem for Microsoft is, even though its just a phone hardware running on a laptop it IS GREAT. Its got good single threaded speed and unified memory and can handle several applications inclduing chrome open with several tabs with ease. The whole idea of apple is to capture students and non-apple customers and make them move into thier eco systems. For this they are willing to sell the laptop at a good price, in return people will be in that ecosystem for the rest of thier life buying ipads, phones, more laptops, apple store services and apps etc making them more money than they would have without this laptop. There is an article written on it – https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/17/how-a-macbook-neo-bought-for-a-high-school-student-is-worth-50k-to-apple/ Reply
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