Weird. I was trying to think of reasons why your screen would have that issue where letters shifted when you move your eyes and mine doesn’t have it (or any issues really). Oh well, either way too bad it didn’t work out.
Nah, they shelved the inflatable raft because it leaked too much memory, but good news: the next pro-motion will actually refer to the fold out personal helicopter blades that is replacing the raft in the roadmap 😛
To be honest, what I don't understand is why you even considered buying a Neo in the first place, given how many high performing laptops and iPads you have. What possible niche could it have filled?
He did a service to the community and has gifted some lucky one an OPEN BOX priced reduced Neo!
Inferior to what? An AIR is inferior to a MBP if you want to look at that way.
I’ll post and discuss what I decide to on here. Others can use information like mine if they want to help them decide, or not.
Inferior to what? That question has not been answered. Certainly a M5 Air or MBP screen is better but those devices are not in the same category as the NEO. Other than being MacBook. Compare Apples to Apples. There is no other machine in that price category with a screen that is superior to the NEO. By definition the NEO screen cannot be inferior as there is no other product, by Apple, in the same category. By your logic my MBP screen is inferior to the Studio Display which is inferior to the Studio Display XR.
It's not bothering me a lot, just a bit, but again since I have no urgent need I'll probably wait another year (maybe by then I'll find a great offer on a M4/M5 air at little more than the neo) or maybe the neo 2 will be better (although my guess is that Apple will just replace the SOC with an A19 pro and that's it, which is already a decent upgrade).
Great memories! That was my first computer! I couldn’t type worth **** at first and I remember being up until 4:00am the first night I had it trying out some really basic (no pun intended) stuff. Cool thing for me, as it turned out, I was pretty sure at 4:00am that first night I would be doing some kind of programming for a living. I sort of “outgrew” BASIC pretty early and I remember saving up to buy the “Editor/Assembler” (on cassette LOL!). I remember an early electronics project was building a gadget that connected to the expansion connector on the back and allowed me to connect an Atari 2600 joystick to it so I could use it in my programs. Good times! 😁
This isn't abuse. This is Apple's return policy working exactly as Apple intended. OP is likely going to buy a more expensive Apple laptop at some future date, and the meantime Apple is still going to sell OP's lightly-used Neo at a small discount and still pull in at least a 20% gross margin on the thing.
