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A perfectly performant, luxury-feeling laptop with a secure OS for under $500? This thing is going to eat Chromebooks and budget HP shitboxes for lunch. Sure a
by zemvpferreira 8mo ago
A perfectly performant, luxury-feeling laptop with a secure OS for under $500? This thing is going to eat Chromebooks and budget HP shitboxes for lunch. Sure a lot of niceties are missing but compared to the experience most people have with their $500 laptops, this is going to be night and day.
- Geonode 8mo agoIt's $600, unless you're a school.
- busymom0 8mo agoEDIT: With education discount, in Canada, it's good price: $679 for base, $849 for Touch ID + 512 SSD. -- $799 in Canada for the base model & $999 for the one with touchID & 512 GB ssd. Looks like both models only come with 8gb ram.
- apparent 8mo agoAcademic pricing also applies to individual purchases by students, staff, and faculty. In-store, they ask for an ID. But they don't use any mechanism for online purchases, aside from attestation. I think they used to use edu email addresses to confirm, but now that so many people have alumni emails, that would be useless (and not capture k12 students, whose email addresses typically cannot receive outside emails).
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- happyopossum 8mo agoOr a student, or a teacher. Individuals get edu pricing too...
- ezfe 8mo agoIn the United States (population of 340 million): * 86 million (27%) are under 21 and most of those are students. * Those people have parents, assume 2 parents per 2 children = 86 million parents (27%) That means 55% of the US population is eligible for the cheaper rate before you even account for people getting secondary degrees, educators, and yes - the schools themselves.
- stetrain 8mo agoOr a student, or a family member of a student. Also these days Apple actually allows sales and discounts at retailers. I bet this will be on sale for $499 at Amazon or BestBuy before the end of the year.
- jeffbee 8mo agoYou can't kill Chromebook with hardware. Apple needs software if they want more share of that market.
- bubblewand 8mo agoWhat software do they need to compete with chromebooks? It has a browser (it could have several browsers, if you want). I personally prefer all their productivity software to Google’s or Microsoft’s, and it’s not a close race, but you can use those on it too. Accessibility, I was shocked to find is kinda awful on Chromebooks when I had to try to configure it, considering their target markets are kids and the elderly, while Apple’s the gold standard at that.
- jeffbee 8mo agoYou misunderstand the market. Chromebooks are bought by bureaucrats. They want provisioning, deployment, management. They want a kid to be able to throw a broken Chromebook into a big garbage bin and grab another one off the shelf and be up and running in 5 seconds.
- jungturk 8mo agoMacOS is well supported by most MDM providers today and iCloud makes it trivial to reprovision the local state on a new device.
- spogbiper 8mo agohttps://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/editions/education-fundamentals/ https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_us/workspace-for-education/e... this, basically
- notatoad 8mo agoGoogle account login
- tedd4u 8mo agoCan you say more about what software? (I'm sure the Neo runs Chrome perfectly fine)
- SirMaster 8mo agoDepends what you consider luxury feeling. It's so stripped down. Aside from the slower CPU, half the ram, and half the SSD as the Air this is also what it's all missing compared to the Air: TouchID, MagSafe, slightly bigger wider color (P3) screen, better 12MP CenterStage camera, 2 more speakers, 1 more mic, backlit keyboard, ambient light sensor, force-touch trackpad, WiFi 7, 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, larger battery with longer runtime and faster charging. Yes you can get TouchID with the 512GB upgrade for more money on the Neo.
- wiseowise 8mo agoIt is still miles ahead of plastic garbage other vendors sell.
- cromka 8mo agoPeople miss that point. An entry level Windows laptop is an upper and complete garbage. You get the ick within seconds of using it. This thing will sell like crazy. No longer is Apple an expensive brand!
- quacker 8mo agoYou are comparing it to other Apple laptops but you should be comparing with its competition at a $600 price point. The aluminum enclosure, touchpad, battery life, display, and performance are all best in class (or near enough) at this price point.
- nickjj 8mo ago> Sure a lot of niceties are missing but compared to the experience most people have with their $500 laptops, this is going to be night and day. In September I picked up a laptop for $575. Its specs are 15.6" 1080p IPS display, AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores, 16 threads) CPU, 32 GB of DDR5 memory, Radeon 680M iGPU that can allocate 8 GB of GPU memory, 1 TB SSD with a backlight keyboard. Weighs about 3.5 pounds and has (5) USB ports plus HDMI port. It comes with a 2 year warranty as well. Running Arch Linux on it with niri and it's really nice for what it is. There are decent laptops out there at affordable prices.
- moondance 8mo agoWhat’s it made of? How’s the touchpad feel?
- nickjj 8mo agoIt's metal "A-shell", I got mine in black. It also comes in blue or rose gold. I'm not a huge touchpad fan, but it's very usable. It doesn't misclick. When picking it, you can choose up to 64 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD. It was $50 more for 2 TB instead of 1 TB. The only problem is it seems to be out of stock. It's a Nimo N155. Amazon resellers are also marking it up like crazy compared to its official listed price.
- sipjca 8mo agoYou literally just compared a laptop running arch to a mac. You’re not the target audience lmao
- nickjj 8mo agoThe laptop ships with Windows 11 but its parts are compatible with Linux too. That is an important note though, the price includes a valid Windows 11 license.
- sipjca 8mo agoThat wasn’t the point. You’re a person who runs arch, that means most likely your requirements for a computer are VERY different than the target for this Mac. There’s always some other computer you can buy, but most people will just buy the Mac
- aggregator-ios 8mo agoAbsolutely. Cheaper Chromebooks are terrible machines. Those screens should be illegal and probably causes a lot of eye strain and headaches. Same with a lot of the sub $800 PC laptops. The colors aren't even... colors. The trackpad? Yuck. Everything else falls apart right outside of the warranty period of just 90 days or 1 year. Oh and good luck spending the first day just uninstalling/formatting everything from scratch and getting the vendor specific features to work again. For people who have always wanted an Apple laptop, this is it. The niceties are not necessary, and perfect little things to cut out to bring the price down for the masses.
- jnaina 8mo agoThe iPhone Halo effect will bring in the first time buyers in droves. Windoze is inherently uncool among the younger Insta demographics. Also, the Neo is the ultimate iPhone accessory, for this crowd. Who cares if the ram size is 8GB and Tahoe is a certifiable dog, that the vast majority neckbeards here are fretting about here. The Neo is not aimed at you. For Safari, Apple Mail, Photos and iApps, and ocassional Claude/ChatGPT usage, this is plenty good