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No, but the $600 MacBooks are coming straight for the $600 plastic shitbox windows laptops. The competition at this price point is weak.
by kube-system 7mo ago
No, but the $600 MacBooks are coming straight for the $600 plastic shitbox windows laptops.
The competition at this price point is weak.
- bigyabai 7mo agoWhich was formerly challenged by the $700 Macbook Air, to little avail.
- wat10000 7mo agoWhat $700 MacBook Air?
- bigyabai 7mo agoCostco and other in-person retailers marked down the M1 MBA to $799 and then $699 while reducing their stock.
- wat10000 7mo agoIt doesn’t make sense to compare MSRP of one product to sale prices of another. I’m sure the Neo will see similar discounts in those situations too.
- s0rce 7mo agoMy M4 Air was $750 on black friday 2025. I bought it after I cracked the screen on my M1 and the cost to repair was half the cost of the much newer computer.
- Marsymars 7mo agoWalmart has been selling the M1 MacBook Air for $700 for the past couple years. (And $650 for the latter part of that time frame.) Those weren't leftover stock or sale prices - Apple was producing the M1 MBA specifically for the $700 price point at third-party retailers.
- kube-system 7mo agoAt $950 it has historically been pegged at the #1 spot on Amazons best sellers in the laptop category. It has been recently unseated by the Neo. Wait until retailers start discounting the Neo.
- ceejayoz 7mo agoOne of my kids had a college visit recently. Everyone had Macbooks.
- nickjj 7mo ago> The competition at this price point is weak. Is it though? 6 months ago for $575, I picked up a 15" 1080p IPS display laptop with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (8 cores / 16 threads), 32 GB of DDR5 RAM, Radeon 680M iGPU that can use up to 8 GB VRAM and a 1 TB NVME SSD with a backlight keyboard, a bunch of USB ports and HDMI port. It weighs the same as a MBP and comes with a 2 year manufacturer warranty. It's upgradable to 64 GB of RAM and 2 TB SSD. It has Windows 11 but all of the parts are compatible with Linux if you want to go down that route. It's from a brand I never heard of, Nimo N155 but I took a gamble and so far I couldn't be happier. The only problem now is there's major shortages and prices are jacked because of the RAM situation. The same model is $700 today and much harder to find, even their official site is out of stock on this model.
- kube-system 7mo agoAll of those specs are orthogonal to the gripes people are referring to when they call a laptop a "plastic shitbox"
- bigyabai 7mo agoApple sold high-quality plastic laptops for a very long time, so evidently there's something there.
- addaon 7mo agoHigh quality for their time. The toilet bowl was very heavy for its screen size, and had minimal volume for battery. The G3 iBook lacked rigidity, and had a tendency to damage the mainboard if picked up from a corner. The G4 iBook had grounding issues, and would occasionally get spicy with two-prong outlets. All three of these issues were directly related to the plastic chassis. All three were great laptops for their day; none would be acceptable in this decade.
- kube-system 7mo agoThere’s nothing wrong with plastic as a material, but there’s a lot wrong with many of the designs of mid-tier laptops that happen to use plastic. The plastic isn’t as much a cause of their problems as it is a signature feature of all hastily assembled corner-cut devices.
- simonh 7mo agoAlso Apple are masters of the up-sell. Someone who knows $600 windows laptops are crap might just buy a cheaper Chromebook because crap is crap, but they might spring for another few hundred bucks for something they have confidence is actually pretty nice and has brand Caché.