Makayla
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Seeing this in contrast to the fate of Vision Pro is the least surprising thing ever.
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MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production
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mentaluproar
macrumors 68000
vision pro is the coolest thing ever, but it never solved a problem for anyone. it never had a purpose. it never found a niche. at that price point, people aren't going to buy first, find use for later. that's what doomed it.
dampfnudel
macrumors 603
You made the right decision. Maybe when the amount of RAM goes up the Neo will be a better choice.
kagharaht
macrumors 68020
Good thing they will have to manufacture new chips. They used up all the faulty ones sold to customers thus the cheap price. New ones will have to be bumped up in cost. It would be surprising if they don’t do that.
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Apple is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' With the MacBook Neo
The all-new MacBook Neo has been such a hit that Apple is facing a "massive dilemma," according to Taiwan-based tech columnist and former Bloomberg reporter Tim Culpan. In the iPhone 16 Pro models, the A18 Pro chip has a 6-core GPU. During the chip manufacturing process, however, sometimes a CPU...
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You mean a sizable boost to MacBook Air users?
But there could also be people looking for a Neo, not finding it in stock, and buying a cheap Windows laptop. Or people who end up not buying anything. No way to know the numbers of all the different scenarios.
Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502a
If you can afford it then it is the better choice indeed. Thing is: for many an extra $300 is simply out of reach.
Dirk Pieters
macrumors 6502a
Rumours on a rumour site written by a guy who knows nothing.Good thing they will have to manufacture new chips. They used up all the faulty ones sold to customers thus the cheap price. New ones will have to be bumped up in cost. It would be surprising if they don’t do that.
Apple is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' With the MacBook Neo
The all-new MacBook Neo has been such a hit that Apple is facing a "massive dilemma," according to Taiwan-based tech columnist and former Bloomberg reporter Tim Culpan. In the iPhone 16 Pro models, the A18 Pro chip has a 6-core GPU. During the chip manufacturing process, however, sometimes a CPU...
Neo’s chip isn’t faulty. It has a gpu with 5 cores like it says on the box. ❤️
8 GB would have been sufficient for her (my son's M1 Air is still working flawlessly), but I'll be more interested in the Neo once it has at least 12 GB of RAM.
If the Air wasn't available for $900 I would have gone with the Neo (she really liked the pink color too) and just replaced it sooner.
Agreed. Most people who buy the Neo will be using one app predomantly and not rapidly task switching.
And that app is likely to be a web browser, Spotify, Apple Music etc.
They are likely not likely to be editing reams of 4k HDR footage etc.
The Neo will be fine for them.
The annoying thing is when tech enthusiasts map their requirements (however, I doubt that most tech enthusiasts who own a tricked out MBP actually do need one...) onto the Neo and scoff at it and say it's not fast enough, has not got enough RAM etc.
The Neo is for those who have bought the regular iPad or iPhone and love them.
Or those who have suffered plastic PC laptops with chassis that flex and dim 1080p screens and ads in the start menu etc. (umm let's hope they don't notice Apple's ads in News, settings, music and TV etc. But I digress!).
Then they say the Neo and for the same price as their crappy laptop they get an incredible premium experience.
zarmanto
macrumors 65816
I think not.
Apple has historically kept their profit margins much higher than other computer makers. Those margins have indisputably made them into an incredibly successful company. In what appears to have been a bit of experimentation, they chose to use "off cast" chips for the initial run of the Neo, chips that would have otherwise gone to waste... but the cost of this new run of chips that we're now hearing about is still only going to be about $45 per unit -- likely less, since all of them will be downspecced to 5 GPU cores, anyway. In terms of Apple's typical profit margins, that would be a drop in the proverbial bucket.
In addition, the R&D is already paid for; that sunk cost doesn't apply to this next run of Neos, since Apple apparently wasn't anticipating another full run. I would speculate that the savings from zero additional R&D costs -- alongside the downspeccing yield increases -- more than adequately offsets the reported per unit cost.
The Neo started out as an experiment. It is now a proven concept. And the rest of the industry is quaking in their boots, at the thought that Apple may have finally found a repeatable path to lower priced Macs.
Only poor countries could afford apple products so there they now have a start.
Something is up and when RTX-SPark Nvidia takes off its Cloud only baby!
Then they are in full control!
Ai cranking up cloud usage and data mining.
General computing will be a thing of the past unless you want to pay for that game rig!
Here we have this high priced whatever PRO this or that will game for $$$$$.
Cloud is going to win out it seems to me.
Race to the bottom on personal general computing.
Something is up and when RTX-SPark Nvidia takes off its Cloud only baby!
Then they are in full control!
Ai cranking up cloud usage and data mining.
General computing will be a thing of the past unless you want to pay for that game rig!
Here we have this high priced whatever PRO this or that will game for $$$$$.
Cloud is going to win out it seems to me.
Race to the bottom on personal general computing.
I perused several comments on this topic and none of the commenters chose to ask why the Neo is so much in demand.
Comparisons of hardware specifications and price are not the major reason.
More than 25 years as a technology professional has taught me a long time back that the overriding factor of choice between MacOS based computing and Windows systems, is the worlds difference in Operating system (OS) stability, capability, and importantly basic security in Internet age with raging malware intrusions and Ransomware cyber attacks.
MacOS is UNIX based, and like GNU/Linux is significantly more robust and capable than Windows will ever be, thus a major factor of why Mac users are dedicated and loyal.
Every time there is enough parity in hardware specifications between computers on these 3 platforms, with equal GUI features and functionality, and competitive in price - Windows systems will be at a distinct disadvantage. Applications are not an issue. Period !
Comparisons of hardware specifications and price are not the major reason.
More than 25 years as a technology professional has taught me a long time back that the overriding factor of choice between MacOS based computing and Windows systems, is the worlds difference in Operating system (OS) stability, capability, and importantly basic security in Internet age with raging malware intrusions and Ransomware cyber attacks.
MacOS is UNIX based, and like GNU/Linux is significantly more robust and capable than Windows will ever be, thus a major factor of why Mac users are dedicated and loyal.
Every time there is enough parity in hardware specifications between computers on these 3 platforms, with equal GUI features and functionality, and competitive in price - Windows systems will be at a distinct disadvantage. Applications are not an issue. Period !
Shanghaichica
macrumors G5
Not surprising. A Mac for £599. For most the barrier to getting a Mac has been price. Many could not stomach paying 1k for the cheapest MacBook when there are windows laptops that cost half the price.