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Why anyone would view a non-upgradeable phone slapped into a laptop case with minimal computing capability for the price would ever consider a Neo is beyond me. At that point, get a damn tablet. It’s literally the same thing but, like, designed with intent rather than a bunch of scrap pieces.

Seriously, what’s the draw? The 8 gigs of ram? The 200 gigs of storage? The major lack of ports?

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Have you ever touched a Neo? It does not feel like scrap pieces. That is the magic.

A phone has great battery life and standby power management. What’s the problem with running a different OS on it if it works just fine?

Different stuff for different folks I guess. At work all files are on the cloud, I have a NAS and a computer I can remote into for development. A Neo is just perfect to make all of that mobile.

As for tablets, I’d only recommend one if you need a stylus for drawing or a smaller form factor. I think that is the market where the Neo is competing, that is where you have a point.

I have, yeah. It's an absolutely shit experience. Terrible materials, terrible internals, terrible experience. Have YOU touched one? They couldn't even be assed to make the logo shiny because it's such a departure from Apple quality lol. If you're going to astroturf for Apple, at least make it somewhat believable. Nobody would have these opinions if they weren't dented from birth or hired by Apple.

Neo definitely isn't competing in the professional art region. Absolutely nobody wants an underpowered laptop to make their art experience miserable. They'll either buy a purpose-built ipad or they'll get a wacom tablet. What a crazy strange opinion to have when you clearly do NOT do any art on computers!

Yes, I own one. I touch it every day :)

It has good build quality. It has been a great experience _for me_. Sorry, I don’t care if the logo is shiny or not.

I said I’d recommend a tablet for people that need a stylus, meaning to do art, I don’t think a Neo is good for that, but for other users, I stand on my opinion that the Neo can in many cases be a better deal than a tablet.

The only reasons people logically buy an apple are twofold: first, you know it’ll still work mostly fine in a decade. Second, it gets you further into the walled garden. That’s really only nice if you’ve got a computer that will last long enough that the garden isn’t painful. That’s the only reason they can command such a high price. This will be a piece of shit in 4 years TOPS, while commanding 80% of the price. And again, Apple has made them impossible to upgrade or repair, shortening the lifespan even further.

Bro stop with the copium

In local prices, a MacBook Neo is $800 for a 13" display, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage.

A 13" iPad Air with 8GB RAM, 256GB storage and a Magic Keyboard is $1648.

The iPad has a notably more capable CPU, for over double the price.

An Android tablet isn't a capable replacement for a MacBook/iPad. (And I don't know that you can get even get any 13" Android tablet with a reasonable keyboard case for a discount over a MacBook Neo.)

I kinda don't care about whatever stupid market you've got in your strange country. The ipad air is $500.

You get 90% of the MacBook experience for half the price. Most users only need this 90%.

You get 40% of the macbook experience for half the price buddy. Absolutely nobody buys macbooks thinking they'll be worthless in 3 years like they do with other laptops. This is Apple stepping down to a garbage tier, and ignoring the roots that made them popular.

lol, 90% for half the price. What insane cope.

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