Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

• popcar2@piefed.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An iPad Air costs the same but comes with a much better M4 processor.

  Sure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can’t really use an iPad as a laptop. The hardware exists and should work, but the software is awful.

    It’s often several seconds to switch to Safari on my iPad Pro with M series chip. We’ve had app switching in computers for 40 years. Why can’t iPad do it?

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.

    So form factor, not hardware internals should be the deciding factor in cost?

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    • Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      To a degree, yeah.

      The laptop form factor is engineered with lid and palmrest assemblies, if you’re going to compare the two then you’ll want to add a nice keyboard to that iPad. Apple’s is $270.

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Apple’s is $270.

        Typical Apple tax, completely unrelated to the few dollars a keyboard costs for real.

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• irate944@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Better specs in theory, but I would sooner cut my wrists than to try to work on an iOS device

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In addition to being more locked down, you’d also have to figure out/purchase peripherals like the keyboard and mouse yourself, right?

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  • ag10n@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s an iPhone 16 with a MacBook shell

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.

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  • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook

    One has a keyboard (cheap components), the other has a touchscreen. The cost cancel each other out.

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