Apple appears to have prematurely revealed the name of its rumored lower-cost MacBook model, which is expected to be announced this Wednesday. A regulatory document for a “MacBook Neo” (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple’s website. Unfortunately, there are no further details or images available yet. While the PDF file does not contain the “MacBook Neo” name, it briefly appeared in a link on Apple’s regulatory website for EU compliance purposes.
You’re absolutely right, that is an ass laptop.
Almost as ass as a an irreparable, unupgradeable $700 Macbook with a phone processor and 8GB of RAM.
You’re not wrong about the rest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the processor benchmarks really well.
The processor isn’t the problem. They could’ve put a fuckin 9850X3D in this thing and it will still run like a turd with 8GB RAM.
That’s why I commented on you including it in what I could only read as a list of objectionable things.
Now that the neo has been announced at $499 for students with twice the storage of your example, care to reevaluate the overall value differences?
At $500 it’s not a bad value. Could still do better on the used market.
That Celeron ain’t got nothing on any phone processor Apple’s made in at least the last half decade lol
I’m not sure the Macbook Neo will make sense, but I know for sure that docked tablet doesn’t. They’re also ass to repair, performance doesn’t exist and the screen belongs in 2008.
A fancy processor is meaningless without RAM. It’s like a Lamborghini rolling on bicycle tires.
And RAM is meaningless without a processor to use it. So I’m saying this MacBook Neo is probably kinda shit for its price, but the Stream is for sure not any good.
For the price of the MacBook Neo, the best device to get would actually be a used laptop. Either an Apple Silicon Macbook Air if you can find one with 16 GB, or some kind of a Thinkpad if you want to have more freedom.
Cheap laptops tend to suck, but used laptops in the same price range can be very good.