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Apple Explains 'MacBook Neo' Name
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You just described Business 101: Making Profit
I gotta say, I’m super curious to hear what new boogeyman people are going to fixate on when Tim Cook eventually steps down. Y’all act like this multi-trillion dollar company would be your best friend of not for this Scrooge McDuck character people have made him into. 🤣
maxoakland
macrumors 68000
No, it really doesn’t. They want it to but that doesn’t mean it does. It’s too on the nose and there are other tech products worth exactly the same name
maxoakland
macrumors 68000
Yeah. If the extremely low specs of that machine encourages Apple to get serious about software efficiency, it’ll be good for everyone in the ecosystem
But that means people actually need to have self respect and demand a decent experience even though the machine is “cheap”
TVreporter
macrumors 68030
No One’s Excited
Not Exactly Original
Nearly Everything Old
Next Edition, Obviously
No Effort Observed
New, Except Old
Not Exactly Original
Nearly Everything Old
Next Edition, Obviously
No Effort Observed
New, Except Old
tripleburst
macrumors 6502
At some point they are going to drop the Neo. This will be just “MacBook” just like the Ipad.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
I forgot about the Mini + XDR pics.
Oh man. That was hilarious.
How that ever got out the door is beyond me.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
New, Except Old
I LOVE that last one. 😂
It fits the componentry perfectly.
Old iPhone chip, old trackpad, old screen tech, some old USB in there, etc.
Bravo! 👏
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
That’s when they refresh it from the next years leftover capacity and/or dud iPhone chips from the 17 line.
MysteriousStain
macrumors 6502
tripleburst
macrumors 6502
Eriamjh1138@DAN
macrumors 65816
Serrafemme
macrumors member
It’s not new, exciting, or here… it’s just the Apple equivalent of a netbook. It’s grossly underpowered with lackluster features. Lastly it isn’t here. It doesn’t launch until 11Mar…
JPack
macrumors P6
ETAs already starting to slip.
Some people here completely underestimate real-world demand for these things. A lot spec geeks that focus on RAM when that's not even being considered by buyers.
With all the subscription crap and everything else, I gotta say that it has never felt so good to have moved to Linux years ago.
So it’s new, exciting, original and also…. HERE? Can someone explain that last one?
Are they selling some products which are not here? And if so……………….. where are they? 🤔
Are they selling some products which are not here? And if so……………….. where are they? 🤔
It’s an iPod Touch, minus the touch, crammed into a laptop-like clamshell.
Know what would have been creative? To have just made it a phone dock that the newer phones would switch into an iPadOS/MacOS-like mode when loaded into it. Have it dock where the touchpad goes and have the phone go into “touchpad mode” while docked. Basically a smarter Smart Keyboard with a screen for the iPhone.
MacBook Neo
MacBook Morpheus
MacBook Trinity
MacBook Smith
MacBook Oracle
MacBook Morpheus
MacBook Trinity
MacBook Smith
MacBook Oracle
Macaholic868
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turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
We have no idea how many they made or how much capacity they budgeted.
"Dates slipping" means literally nothing of useful analytical value.
Is their website also going to tell us about all the returns?
(Vision Pro and iPhone Air come to mind)
JPack
macrumors P6
We're back to the iPhone Air argument. "Maybe Apple made 10 million units of Air, so that's why the ETAs never slipped."
Apple told its suppliers to expect 5-7 million Neos for 2026.
There's overwhelmingly positive reaction on the streets, online, by journalists. This is all consistent with good sales.
