Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 9 hours agoTo 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.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Typical Apple tax, completely unrelated to the few dollars a keyboard costs for real.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
You’re not entirely wrong, in that the Apple Tax is real. Nonetheless, the quality of the Magic Keyboard is substantially higher than that if a keyboard you can get for “a few dollars”
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The MacBook doesn’t have a touchscreen. It cancels the keyboard cost out.
They don’t even put touch ID on the entry model.
Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Ok but if you want to do actual work on it then these things absolutely do not cancel each other out because you have to spend $270 on a keyboard/trackpad regardless, and now have to use a clunky touchscreen on your 13 inch tablet half the time.
Yes, the M4 is much faster and it is probably only stupid product segmentation keeping it on the iPad. But the reality is, iOS/iPadOS puts OS-level limits on how much you can even take advantage of that hardware even if there is an iOS app for the thing you want to do