The main place the Neo makes sense is for buying a whole classroom full of machines, or for someone who really wants to unbox something new and shiny. It's a chromebook killer.
It seems like the main complaint is that it is slow. I am not sure what all the other bits are about.
Terrible idea. It's cool that Apple are entering the budget space, but the hype around the Neo is nuts.
edit: found it https://old.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/1s2tdrm/is_the_...
Kind of like a more intentional version of an ipad w/keyboard? I'm not sure I fully understand what the diff is between ipad w/keyboard and the Neo.. price, I suppose.
I typed on a neo keyboard in store and coming from an M2 Air, the keyboard does not feel nice IMO.
Enough so that I would skip buying one for that reason alone. the keys feel more "squishy" than "clicky".
Edit: I take it back, I clicked through to "all posts" which makes it much more obvious that it's slop.
(archive because the site is down for me)
Summary: It's not as good as my old Thinkpad running Arch
The guy is comparing a $200 ebay thinkpad with linux compared to a macbook with a modern operating system.
They're not the target demographic, I can tell you right now schools and (non-tech) parent's aren't going to buy their kids ebay laptops with linux on them.
You might as well say the neo sucks because a 6 year old m1 ebay macbok is a better deal. It's apples to oranges.
