Refurb
You can’t really compare refurb to new. If you do, you might as well consider refurb Macbook Pros instead of the Macbook Neo too.
A new X1 Carbon is 1749 EUR starting price near me. The Neo is 719. A 5 year old X1 Carbon, refurbed, is 725. It’s not a bad laptop by any means, but it also has soldered RAM much like the Mac, so at 5 years of age it may not exactly be super reliable past the warranty which isn’t all that long for either case.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m sure Asahi support will be available soon. If these has 16gb of memory, I’d seriously consider it. Even with the global AI-fabricated RAM shortage, 8GB hasn’t been a reasonable foundation for over a decade.
snowdriftissue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Has Asahi matured? Last I heard there were still quite a few unsupported features like touch ID and displayport over usb c
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think TouchID isn’t a priority for them, but looking at the supported M1 and M2 devices and features, it seems like it could be a daily driver. It has things I never got to work on my first Linux laptop (webcam, microphone, speakers, suspend, keyboard backlight, wifi, bluetooth), although it’s 2026 so those are basically all expected. No thunderbolt, touchID, or display port alt mode, though, does make it a step behind MacOS, with some doubts it’ll ever fully catch up even on this 5-6 year old hardware.
Still, these were very popular devices, so I think they’ll stay on the used market for a long time. I might pick one up if it’s cheap enough.