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So are you happy with your new Neo?

jido said:
I am very bad at housekeeping and have hundreds of Safari tabs open, a ballooning mailbox, etc. The Neo handles it.
Tahoe: it is full of little glitches and poor design. Don’t know how you can call it awesome, what does it do for you?
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Same here - have 3 browsers open, total of 70 tabs and the Neo handles it better than my M2 MBA !

Impressive to say the least!

Must be some difference in the A18 Pro chip vs M2 ???
 
It's weird how on this forum of supposedly enthusiasts and professionals on the one side we have people overthinking every small detail of their next purchase while others seem to casually buy and return expensive hardware as if trial and error was the right way of "researching" what they want or need and as if "free" returns weren't all priced in. The first and last time I returned something because it wasn't the right purchase was an accelerator for my Amiga 500 but I was still a kid and I learnt my lesson.
 
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Basic75 said:
It's weird how on this forum of supposedly enthusiasts and professionals on the one side we have people overthinking every small detail of their next purchase while others seem to casually buy and return expensive hardware as if trial and error was the right way of "researching" what they want or need and as if "free" returns weren't all priced in. The first and last time I returned something because it wasn't the right purchase was an accelerator for my Amiga 500 but I was still a kid and I learnt my lesson.
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That is a very American centered consumerism behavior, this is not common elsewhere outside of the US.
 
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My Neo, 512GB Indigo, has exceeded my expectations. I'm starting to pivot from a planned upgrade to a Neo gen 2 with the potential for increased RAM and backlit keys. As long as this one remains snappy and functional with an all-day-battery It's a keeper. We'll see if I feel the same when the gen 3 is announced.
 
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I love mine. I had a Macbook Pro in 2010 that lasted me a while before it got a graphics issue so I stopped using it and have had iPad's for years since then. I hadnt been using my iPad it had just been sitting in a drawer was going to trade it in but ended up giving it to my Daughter when I seen the Neo was released and picked up the 512GB in Indigo and for the things I do on it I have had no issues at all. The lack of backlight doesn't bother me either as I touch type.

I don't see the point of paying the extra £400 to get an Air when I wouldn't take advantage of the extra power it has compered to the Neo.
 
boppin said:
No need for another device. Why do you need some many devices at once?

And by the way. The term Neo remembers me of "Matrix": "Mr. Anderson, help!" 🤣
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"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of your death. Goodbye, Mr. Anderson."

"My name... is Neo."
 
Happy with mine, i will upgrade yearly for now and hand the current model down to the GF, and my 3 sons.

This coming year i will be enjoying the current model.
One thing i hope future Neo`s have.

  • Thinner bezels.
  • Lighter total weight.
Obvious more power, faster SDD, More RAM but that will happen. But i would love to see the Neo lose a bit more weight and the bezels are a bit thinner to make max use of the 13 inch screen form factor.

And overall lighter because i feel its a bit too heavy for my liking, its not horrible, but not comfortable to haul all day with you in a backpack when traveling.
 
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Had my 512GB Indigo since March 20 and love it. It is the ideal portable alternative to my 4lb+ 16” MacBook Pro “brick”. For emails, blog updates, light document editing, form filling, “tweaks” to my photos in Photos, messaging etc. this machine is ideal. For more serious photo processing in Lightroom or DxO Photolabs I use either my MacBook Pro or M4 Pro Mac Mini with two 5K displays. It is the ideal “coffee” table machine.

The only dislike I have is the low contrast keyboard on the Indigo machine. Otherwise it is a very good, cost effective, machine and way more use than my 11” M1 iPad Pro.
 
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whitby said:
The only dislike I have is the low contrast keyboard on the Indigo machine. Otherwise it is a very good, cost effective, machine and way more use than my 11” M1 iPad Pro.
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I think it can be customized.
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What’s the best color?

The keyboard is replaceable. I think the replacement is around $140 from Apple. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-now-selling-parts-for-seven-new-devices-unveiled-last-month.2480672/ I don't know if you're required to replace a keyboard with one of the same color. If mix and match...
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I have a 15 inch HP G450 G9 laptop from work, its 3+ years old.

  • It has quite a bit of flex in the platic body, creeks on all sides.
  • Spacebar stopped working 1 year ago.
  • Trackpad no longer registers clicks.
  • Its little fan is noisy and cannot be blocked, so not usable in bed etc.
  • Constant updates and security measurements by my company + rigid monitoring.
At home i use a older 2018 lenovo desktop all in one in the living room that i got for free from work.

For study etc i used my almost 6 year old ipad mini 6.

The Neo is such a upgrade from all off them.
13 inch form factor is much nicer for a laptop then 15 inch for mobility.

The build quality is miles ahead of plastic laptops.

I work for the past 20 year professionally on windows OS its my bread and butter. No real major complaints there for me.
 
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I am very happy.
I've already installed Parallels and Windows 11 ARM so I can run that one app I need for volunteering that requires windows and won't have to travel with my MBP.

I have set up sync for Dropbox, Google Drive (2 accounts) and Onedrive. I only store a couple folders on my Neo HD situationally based on my 'projects' at the time. I prefer to access files thru Finder vs the web.

I can readily hand off from my iPad to Neo and vice versa. My large 16" well equipped MBP sits in another room for when I need it. Otherwise, my Neo is close by with my iPad.

I installed Office 365 Outlook, Word and Excel. I even installed Word and Excel on the Microsoft side, although I prob could save that rare need for my MBP.

I'm only using 255 of the 512 storage.

I work at a school so bought with the Education discount.

Looking forward to upgrading if touch screen comes out.

I do prefer the Nano screen on my iPad, but my MPB 16inch doesn't have that either.

I also now would prefer a 11" iPad Pro- I have the larger from attempting to use it as a smaller laptop.... for my next upgrade. It would be easier to hold - I was using a Magic Keyboard so there wasn't holding involved.

I'm not noticing performance issues.

I keep some very old MBPs for another volunteer thing I do where I need 3 laptops. I can now re-home a couple of older ones.

I am a sucker for Apple products. The interoperability, hardware support, and software release cycles is what sold me.

I'll add: I needed the 16" MBP when I upgraded from 14" for specific needs and large excel projects, but also envied my family members 14" as I lugged mine around.
 
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The Neo is a NO BRAINER. If you are doing anything outside of crazy computer work, it's an easy buy. I love mine. I have a PC for the major stuff and this for everything else. It's great! Its also my first Mac since the OG iMac, the green one with the handle lol
 
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I'm having a fine time with my Neo. I've thought a lot about how the Neo can be so snappy and perform so well. We know the 8 GB of unified RAM is not especially helpful in that regard. And was it MacWorld that tested the SSD and found it was eight times slower than the SSD's in the Air and Pro? That is definitely not helpful. It must be the binned A 18 Pro that makes it all happen. It's the only thing I can think of that makes the Neo perform so well. Anyone have any thoughts about that?
 
Basic75 said:
It's weird how on this forum of supposedly enthusiasts and professionals on the one side we have people overthinking every small detail of their next purchase while others seem to casually buy and return expensive hardware as if trial and error was the right way of "researching" what they want or need and as if "free" returns weren't all priced in. The first and last time I returned something because it wasn't the right purchase was an accelerator for my Amiga 500 but I was still a kid and I learnt my lesson.
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I remember those! I actually took one apart to add a hard drive, directly interfaced into the 68000 CPU, with an ugly wire routed externally to the ancient hard drive.
 
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jaysabol said:
I'm having a fine time with my Neo. I've thought a lot about how the Neo can be so snappy and perform so well. We know the 8 GB of unified RAM is not especially helpful in that regard. And was it MacWorld that tested the SSD and found it was eight times slower than the SSD's in the Air and Pro? That is definitely not helpful. It must be the binned A 18 Pro that makes it all happen. It's the only thing I can think of that makes the Neo perform so well. Anyone have any thoughts about that?
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If you're the type that has > 60 seconds of 'work' / tasks ongoing and constantly queued up (say, importing 500 photos, or batch processing of photos, or exporting video) the Neo wouldn't be your first (or second) stop. Otherwise, it's fantastic for most people who can keep expectations in check for a $500 device.

Also I think one should note that just because an SSD is 1/8th the speed doesn't mean that the overall machine is 1/8th the speed; some benchmarks have less impact on overall machine performance than one might expect.

The killer for this device is the fanless aspect. If you're queueing up jobs >60s, the heat just can't exit fast enough.
 
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I'm very happy with my Neo. I've had it about two weeks and I'm so happy to have a MacBook again. I've been reliant on my iPad for quite a while now and missed having a laptop. My old MacBook Air (2011) aged out of the system and ended up having some corrupted files too (my pictures library and iTunes Library - worst possible files to have corrupted). Luckily I still had my even older MacBook Pro (2009) around and that old tank was solid although totally unable to connect to iCloud. But the helpful folks at the Apple store were able to move the files for me. I am back in the Mac-o-sphere and very happy. I don't do anything heavy so the Neo is perfect for my needs.
 
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