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The neo is the Chromebook for education revolution. It’s cheap and better than 98%+ of windows laptops. I’d not be surprised to see further Mac penetration to t
by bushbaba 6mo ago
The neo is the Chromebook for education revolution. It’s cheap and better than 98%+ of windows laptops. I’d not be surprised to see further Mac penetration to the business sector
- TheRoque 6mo ago13 inch screen though.. it's really small And with 8GB of RAM you are quite limited in the business sector as you say
- longislandguido 6mo agoI'm seeing a lot of "8GB ought to be enough for anybody" here over the last week....
- bobbob1921 6mo agoI think it’s worth mentioning also- 8 GB ram on a Mac is not the same as 8 GB on a windows OS machine, given the poor state of windows as an OS as of the past few years.
- longislandguido 6mo agoI forgot about magical Mac memory. Just keep it under one browser tab, bro.
- aurareturn 6mo agoIt actually is magic Mac memory. No joke. 8GB on macOS is good enough for 80% of people.
- lukeschlather 6mo agoDo browsers and Electron apps magically take up less memory on Macs? What is "good enough?" I never notice problems on my 16GB Windows laptop, so just for fun I closed all of my 6 always-on Electron-type apps, all of the 10 browser windows I had open, a couple other ever-present apps, and it looks like without anything else Windows 10 takes about 4GB, which I think is in the same ballpark as OS X. And I probably have some stuff running that I didn't close, this is very unscientific. Anecdotally also, my one laptop that I've upgraded to Windows 11 is a lot snappier. As a rule I haven't noticed memory pressure on any device I've owned ever as a "regular user," it only really applies to gaming and heavy development with lots of VMs, especially these days.
- aurareturn 6mo agoSwap on macOS is incredibly good. Not sure how Apple does it. Maybe hardware compression?
- longislandguido 6mo ago> Not sure how Apple does it. They do it by prematurely wearing down the soldered SSD just in time for you to buy a new laptop.
- aurareturn 6mo agoAs far as I know, there is no M1 8GB SSD wear down complaints in 2026.
- spicySpy 6mo agoThere are - people are complaining about SSD health
- aurareturn 6mo agoSource? Is it SSDs breaking down or people are just looking at SSD usage and then get scared?
- p_ing 6mo agoIt's no different from NT in that respect. macOS is significantly worse at handling OOM events than NT (even NT4, for that matter).
- dymk 6mo agoI don’t see much “for anybody”, but I do see a lot of “for students / people who browse the web / word processing” which is still a pretty large set of people, and the Neo handles those workloads just fine
- longislandguido 6mo agoLiterally two comments above mine in this discussion: > The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people. I rest my case.
- dymk 6mo ago"students / web browsing / word processing" == typical people, but maybe that's my own biases
- bombcar 6mo agoSteam report is a good thing to look at: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=mac https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=mac For Mac, 30% are at 8GB, 43% at 16GB. Windows has nearly nobody below 16GB (27%) and the biggest is 32GB (58%)
- dpark 6mo ago13” is not really that small. It’s a screen size many people choose. The Neo is also not a play for businesses directly. It seems pretty clearly a play for students who will eventually enter the business world with their personal laptop preferences.
- Sohcahtoa82 6mo ago> The Neo is also not a play for businesses directly. This really is the key point. The Neo is not a work laptop (At least, not for engineers). It's a low-end laptop designed to compete with Chromebooks.
- aurareturn 6mo agoI spent one year using an M1 8GB Macbook Air as a professional developer during covid. The A18 Pro flies around the M1. You can definitely use this as a dev - especially when we're just prompting AI nowadays.