How is it Apple can make a whole laptop cheaper than the phones they sell? Phones are costing more while laptops are going down in price.
onlyrealcuzzo 1 minutes ago [-]
Because this is probably using a bunch of old parts that didn't get sold and are very cheap now.
It also probably doesn't have a ~60% margin.
opjjf 10 minutes ago [-]
$599, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB, *No* Touch ID
$699, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB, Touch ID
Honestly pretty fantastic product and price.
This is clearly targeted towards education but I think I will happily replace by MacBook Air M1 with this :)
geerlingguy 4 minutes ago [-]
I still wish they would give back the 11" Air dimensions with Apple Silicon.
IMO that form factor was perfect for a small, low end laptop, it just needed a more power efficient chip, and a screen with smaller bezels.
mohsen1 3 minutes ago [-]
$499 for education which a lot of target group would qualify.
A friend has M1 with 8GB of RAM (the old design!) and she's perfectly happy about it still. Bought it in 2019!
baal80spam 4 minutes ago [-]
My thoughts as well.
8GB is STILL perfectly fine for a starter notebook, casual browsing and light work. Noone is going to develop on this after all.
Fantastic value for money.
Honestly what I am (pleasantly) surprised by is the minijack.
epolanski 1 minutes ago [-]
> Noone is going to develop on this after all.
Because it doesn't have twice the ram. Otherwise it was a no brainer complementary machine, especially for users like me that work primarily on desktop and don't want to bring the much heavier macbook pro around.
rancar2 3 minutes ago [-]
8GB RAM means bye-bye Electron apps and Chrome running at the same time.
kotaKat 3 minutes ago [-]
$499 Education discount. Just placed my order in and I'm super-stoked.
nicman23 1 minutes ago [-]
nah 8gb of ram is laughable
afavour 3 minutes ago [-]
$599 and available in a range of colors. My bet is this is going to be a hit with high schoolers and college students everywhere.
Reminds me of the Technicolor iPod mini of my college days. The 2000s are back, baby
8GB RAM was actually pretty workable for lightweight work… until they shipped Tahoe. Now macOS is just a slog doing even the most basic things unless you’re at 16GB. Sure hope macOS 27 comes with some serious performance optimization.
But hey the colors are cute.
tylerrooney 59 seconds ago [-]
It's ironic that one of the product shots includes a child using a $599 laptop while wearing $549 headphones.
zozbot234 38 seconds ago [-]
My MacBook Neo here is not booting properly, it just keeps asking me "Do you want the blue screen or the red screen?" This agentic AI stuff is really getting out of hand.
mmastrac 2 minutes ago [-]
This could be useful as a remote-access device for something that has a decent amount of RAM, I suppose, but how can anyone do anything outside of light-duty work with 8GB? At some point a Pi + battery/screen case is legitimately better.
syntaxing 6 minutes ago [-]
Interesting how it runs on the A18. I wonder if this means they will try to unify macOS and iOS within this decade.
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ramgine 3 minutes ago [-]
Hasn’t that been the discussion since the laptops/desktops went arm?
syntaxing 1 minutes ago [-]
Yeah but macOS has never been ran on a “A” series chip before which makes it all more so interesting.
lanthissa 3 minutes ago [-]
in a competitive market they would have been unified a long time ago. google has been making slow steps at doing this apple wont until google does
trillic 8 minutes ago [-]
Mom is getting a new laptop
spockz 3 minutes ago [-]
So the biggest difference I see with the new Air is that you get sRGB only in the display, with less brightness. Also it is has 8GiB of RAM, which shouldn’t be an issue for the intended use.
Same weight. You lose a bit on the speakers, microphone, and webcam. Not sure how noticeable this will be.
functionmouse 4 minutes ago [-]
cute netbook, I appreciate the no notch design
Too bad their software is total garbage now, I could never resign myself to that.
literoldolphin 4 minutes ago [-]
Wait did I read that correctly? There's no backlit keyboard? I don't recall any Mac laptop not having a backlight keyboard since the 2011. And they're marketing it to students -- they are always going to be working in the dark on their beds during the exams...
Forget memory - this is like the more major loss in terms feature set.
afavour 24 seconds ago [-]
IMO it’s not that big of a feature. People touch type.
Raed667 1 minutes ago [-]
8GB of ram places it in competition with cheap chromebooks but nothing more
Mizza 4 minutes ago [-]
Reminds me of when every college kid had those plastic Macbooks. Quite a smart product.
wongogue 2 minutes ago [-]
Neo will at least help in ensuring that macOS doesn’t become too heavy for a few years.
WarmWash 8 minutes ago [-]
An iPhone in a laptop body to be an Apple "Chromebook", I can only imagine this will be pretty popular.
TazeTSchnitzel 5 minutes ago [-]
The 2015~2017 MacBook (I own one and love it) was a similar thing, but with a passively-cooled Intel chip. With Apple Silicon this will be amazing.
madsohm 4 minutes ago [-]
Ugh. Why is is so much more expensive in Denmark? Here it's DKK5499 for the 256 GB version. That's USD857.
TazeTSchnitzel 1 minutes ago [-]
That's around $100 more expensive once you account for the fact Danish advertised prices include VAT at a rate of 25%, whereas the US advertised price excludes sales tax.
hnra 2 minutes ago [-]
With or without VAT? The USD price is without VAT.
rambambram 50 seconds ago [-]
Does it run Linux?
readitalready 5 minutes ago [-]
What's that slot on the side? Antenna?
TazeTSchnitzel 4 minutes ago [-]
Speaker grilles, one on each side. Shame it's not an SD card slot.
ValentineC 9 minutes ago [-]
Why do all the low-end Apple laptops not have USB-C ports on the right?
That's one of the main reasons I had to get a MacBook Pro.
mohsen1 6 minutes ago [-]
Because the motherboard is tiny and on the left?
busterarm 2 minutes ago [-]
plenty of laptops run cables internally to device ports.
esher 5 minutes ago [-]
I see a lot of young people on that page.
cj 6 minutes ago [-]
Is this the end of chromebooks?
pipeline_peak 2 minutes ago [-]
Chromebook’s are like $200
moolcool 6 minutes ago [-]
You can now officially get a device with mutli-user support for only $100 more than the base model iPad. They've really got to throw us a bone with what the iPad is capable of.
lvl155 7 minutes ago [-]
Why don’t they just allow MacOS on iPad Pro. It’s what people want.
Octoth0rpe 3 minutes ago [-]
The ipad pro with keyboard is $1300, more than 2x the price of the Neo. Definitely not the same product category.
alexwrboulter 9 minutes ago [-]
Because of course there's no magsafe.
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It also probably doesn't have a ~60% margin.
$699, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB, Touch ID
Honestly pretty fantastic product and price.
This is clearly targeted towards education but I think I will happily replace by MacBook Air M1 with this :)
IMO that form factor was perfect for a small, low end laptop, it just needed a more power efficient chip, and a screen with smaller bezels.
A friend has M1 with 8GB of RAM (the old design!) and she's perfectly happy about it still. Bought it in 2019!
8GB is STILL perfectly fine for a starter notebook, casual browsing and light work. Noone is going to develop on this after all.
Fantastic value for money.
Honestly what I am (pleasantly) surprised by is the minijack.
Because it doesn't have twice the ram. Otherwise it was a no brainer complementary machine, especially for users like me that work primarily on desktop and don't want to bring the much heavier macbook pro around.
Reminds me of the Technicolor iPod mini of my college days. The 2000s are back, baby
But hey the colors are cute.
Same weight. You lose a bit on the speakers, microphone, and webcam. Not sure how noticeable this will be.
Too bad their software is total garbage now, I could never resign myself to that.
Forget memory - this is like the more major loss in terms feature set.
That's one of the main reasons I had to get a MacBook Pro.