Apple's $599 MacBook Neo Sold Out Through April Amid Surging Demand(www.macrumors.com)
9 pointsby mgh25 hours ago3 comments
  • __patchbit__4 hours ago
    To work around the rounded upper corner display that don't work well with the Stickies app, the preference settings for window gap margins is needed.

    Four sharp corners for the actual display and no notch are winning moves.

  • paulpauper5 hours ago
    8gb of ram far too little. My 5-year-old old laptop that I still use came with 16gb, so you're buying obsolete tech already.
    • musicale2 hours ago
      I think the people who buy the MacBook Neo don't care.

      MacBook Air has double the RAM but is nearly double (>1.8x) the price.

      Flash storage and memory compression mean that you can do pretty well running a single app at a time.

    • javchz2 hours ago
      I think it’s too little for this day and age as well, but in Apple’s defense, their RAM compression on ARM works amazingly well and performs similarly to 12GB on Windows.

      With that said, I hate that you can’t upgrade the RAM or storage.

      I hope that at least one side effect of this is that developers will have a business case for performance improvement dev time, as those machines will become a juicy target, similar to video game consoles that may not have the best specs but are consistent and have a large number of units in the market.

  • orionblastar5 hours ago
    I think it replaces the Mac Mini and competes with the Chromebook. $499 for students.
    • linguae5 hours ago
      I just ordered a base model Mac Mini a few days ago. The Mac Mini and the MacBook Neo serves different niches. They cost the same for students, teachers, and professors. The MacBook Neo is more portable, but the Mac Mini offers more processing cores and more RAM (16GB instead of 8GB), and it has an M4 processor instead of an A18.
      • musicale2 hours ago
        They're both landmark products and local maxima in terms of Mac laptop/desktop capability per dollar.