So, the biggest signal here is Apple caring enough about the low-end of the market to make a laptop for it, and they didn’t just continue making the M1 (as has

So, the biggest signal here is Apple caring enough about the low-end of the market to make a laptop for it, and they didn’t just continue making the M1 (as has been the case up to now at Walmart). Apple instead chose to bring back color, to provide better cooling to a newer and more power efficient chip, and thereby deliver better performance than M1. They didn’t skimp on materials. They didn’t skimp on the screen. The Neo is a premium device, it’s just low on RAM and GPU cores. For a student who just needs Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Safari, that’s fine. For the average HN reader, it’s not fine, but the Neo isn’t intended for HN readers. My biggest complaint is actually the positioning of the USB-C ports. The USB2 port should have been the one in the corner where most people will connect a charger, and the one in front should have been USB3 where most people would be plugging anything else. For the current layout, it seems like they’re counting on the buyer to get a dock of some kind… but this is meant to be budget?