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MacBook Neo Features Two Different USB-C Ports

I doubt most buying this know the difference between USB 2.0 and 3.0. It’ll be fine, I promise.
 
This makes a lot more sense than Macrumors claim yesterday that it would have MagSafe. Interestingly there is no mention of that mistake this article.
 
I have a 2016 12'' Macbook with 1.3GHz m7 and 512 ssd. Still useable thanks to OCLP.

Not trusting Apple to revive the 12'' MacBook with an M chip using the same form factor, I bought a 13''MacBook Air with M4, 24Gb memory and 1TB ssd six months ago. Turned out to be the right decision for me.

If I can only understand the logic behind Apple, why not simply stick an M chip, or the A18 into the body of the 12'' Macbook, replace the atrocious butterfly keyboard with the Magic Keyboard, put two USB-C ports on it and call it a day. Instead they came up with a gimped MacBook Air with tutti-frutti colors and call it ''Neo''.
 
Understandable considering the chipset
I think a lot of people in this thread are missing that only one port is limited to USB2, the other is 10gbps

I fully expect this limitation to go away on the second revision when they bump up the mobile chipset
 
DEMinSoCAL said:
Too bad they didn't put a USB-C port on each side...some thumb drives and other gadgets are wider than normal and can interfere with the charging cable port, making it impossible to use both at the same time.
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Especially ones that try to do USB-A & USB-C both on one stick (lots exist) ... or when using adapters.
 
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What is the line next to the headphone jack - an antenna? Looks like a camera card slot, but I know it isn't....
 
fenderbass146 said:
Really needed markings...I know thats against the "Apple" way, but that's just dumb. No issue with it, but should have been marked somehow. That and the fact it can't be upgraded to 16 or even 12 is a deal breaker for many.
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Apple has traditionally marked the USB-C ports that support thunderbolt with a ⚡ symbol to distinguish them from regular USB-C ports. Something like that or even just a dot would have been helpful. Not marking them is just negligent.
 
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Tagbert said:
Apple has traditionally marked the USB-C ports that support thunderbolt with a ⚡ symbol to distinguish them from regular USB-C ports. Something like that or even just a dot would have been helpful. Not marking them is just negligent.
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It's quite simple, really. If they added that, there would be no clear upgrade path for the ports. This would disrupt the requirement of upgrades leading to continually increased profits. After the original HomePod debacle, Apple won't make that same mistake again.
 
BGPL said:
USB 2.0 is inexcusable. That is really old technology. No Thunderbolt, ok, but USB 2???
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The A-series chips don't have a lot of I/O support so it appears that they could only get one USB 3 and one USB 2 out of the bandwidth. It's a reasonable limitation. You'll probably use the 2.0 port for charging and use the 3.0 port for external display or any data needs. If they were both 2.0 that would be problematic but since one is 3.0 you do have options.
 
usb 3 is 2 decades old technology. I can see a lot of average joes and kids confused by the slow transfer. no usb port labels, Phil Schiller: can't innovate...
 
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beautyहमempty said:
The neo does not come with a power adapter, but in FUN colors
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You can always plug in a cheap phone charger but it's hard to do colors on your own. I think having the colors is an important part of the character of the Neo. Whether it comes with a charger or not is not a deal killer, especially at that price. Just plug it into your phone charger.
 
Blackstick said:
Most of the replies here prove why you're not employed at Apple Marcom.

If you want more specs, Apple intentionally and by design anchors you to a MacBook Air at a higher price tier (even for those of us who know to get a refurb one).

You won't find the target audience for this Mac posting here or any other tech forum. My mom, my 9 year old, my wife... they care more that it comes in pink or yellow than 16gb of RAM. Computers aren't their interest, it's something they have to use to get by in the world. Nothing they spend much extra time thinking about. The chance they ever connect an external display to this thing is slim to none. They'll use those ports primarily to charge the Mac or their iPhone, or maybe copy a file to a pen drive. Simple as that.
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I agree with one caveat. This is aimed DIRECTLY at the education market. Students (and teachers who will also buy this in droves) give a lot of presentations.

I think supporting a single display is fine. Making the user guess which port to plug that display into each time they use it (which is going to be a thing for people not using an external display everyday) is an easily avoided bad experience.
 
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