It’s the same price and similar specs to current Chromebook models, which is what I think they are trying to compete against.
Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599
sefra1@lemmy.zip 4 days agoThe low price
Dude, there isn’t anything low about that price. That’s the point, with 600 dollars you can get a very decent computer for pretty much any other brand with at least the double of ram.
You see, you can get an used thinkpad for less than half the price and still have twice the ram.
It’s just a scam product for people who know nothing about computers and will pay for this trash because they simply think “apple a good brand, right?”.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
sefra1@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
But why would anyone want to buy a chromebook? When they can buy a real computer for the same price?
If battery life is such an issue, just buy a powerbank.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Hardware is Chromebook priced. OS,is (AFAIK) full macOS, AKA a posix compliant Unix machine with a pretty nice GUI. Nice enough that several Linux WMs try to duplicate it.
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
the reason I said the price was low is simply because IT IS for what you’re getting, especially where I live. This Macbook Neo starts at $900 AUD, and after checking local retailers like Officeworks, JB HI-FI and Centrecom, and from what I’ve found, the laptops at that same or similar price tag are usually worse performing, plastic built laptops with worse displays. Sure, some come with 16gb of shared SODIMM memory, but a majority come with 8gb. Around a third of them are Chromebooks, the rest are windows laptops. Most come with core i3 or i5 or Ryzen 3, 5 or 7.
For the Macbook Neo, which you can preorder from these retailers for around that 900 bucks, you get a rigid aluminium build, a solid high PPI screen, 8gb of unified LPDDR5X memory, a better SoC than the competition, guaranteed OS support for around 7 years, strict OS memory compression and management, and some pleasant colours compared to the drab grey and uncreative black colours.
RAM is never the only factor when choosing to buy a laptop, its all the other factors as well, those of which people miss and happen to get a laptop where the hinge breaks a year after, or the shared memory puts limits on their workflow and forces the CPU to work more copying data between two pools, or the display has shitty viewing angles that make it hard to look at, or an short accidental drop renders the machine inoperable, or even overuse of the ports cause them to fail, but they’re soldered on and render that function of the device useless.
There are so many reasons to bag Apple, but you gotta hand it to them, they know how to standardise and have demonstrated that their devices are designed to weather being used well. And sure, you can definitely buy something a lot cheaper with a hell of a lot more ports, but its likely these ports in the Neo will be modular, since all ports are modular in the Airs, Pros, Mac Minis and Mac Studios.