This is a great reaction to those people who said things like: "If the phrase "Java app" is in your vocabulary this laptop probably isn't for you." [1], in resp

This is a great reaction to those people who said things like: "If the phrase "Java app" is in your vocabulary this laptop probably isn't for you." [1], in response to someone who said "Large Java apps like Android Studio are not good at managing 8gb of RAM". Kids and poor students are totally gonna run Android Studio slowly on these. A year ago 8GB was the min requirement [2]. As others say, most disadvantaged kids won't be buying one of these, it will be a 2nd hand windows machine. Probably with 8GB of RAM and they'll be hounded by popups telling them that their machine is no longer supported by windows 10, or trying to run windows 11 on them. Bring on a new generation of linux users. Many lucky or industrious ones will get a Neo though. Maybe the sales of the Neos will turn back the clock on minimum system requirements. I can see dev shops having a couple of them around for user testing. Maybe the Adobe resident Creative Cloud app will start to suck less (probably not). I'm interested to see how Mac OS market share will track with the release of the Neo. I've even bought some Apple shares for the first time. My experience with running some things I "shouldn't have", was running software like Povray on my 486sx (which has no working FPU). Being able to pirate software by copying a floppy was a good way to learn professional tools back in the days before everyone had a modem. For me that included Word Perfect 5.1 and Turbo C 2.0 that I didn't upgrade for a long time. Then again I regret not upgrading the 486sx a lot sooner. There's still a window to pirate software, but many non-cloud versions are getting too old to run on current OSs now. Lots of open source dev tools now of course. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346858 [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250311194741/https://developer.android.com/studio/install https://web.archive.org/web/20250311194741/https://developer...