That will make the Neo much better for sure but it wont be game over. This is Apple we are talking about, they want you to spend more money through upselling, so they will probably make the MBA (now let off the budget leash) and MBP more desirable in some form or another (OLED, Touchscreen etc).
Yep,"discussion" forums are best looked at as entertainment - bar talk, not consultancy. There may be opinions you agree or disagree with, but you shouldn't do anything except take the ones you find interesting on board, but ultimately rely on your own judgement and direct sources of information.
^^^ this.
Sorry to break it to you but iPad has pretty good external drive support and even network drive support. You can even format drives from the Files app
Apple couldn't do an Intel MacBook in this price range. The overheads of paying for an OS and paying for the SoC simply don't exist here for Apple but do for others. Craptop companies generally only earn a few bucks profit from their plastic monstrosities. iPhone economies of scale allow Apple to compete with plastic by delivering an unbelievably cheap, quality product, which just happens to be superfast.
True some of the smaller sections have been helpful.
Internal means internal use only, which assumes confidential. Possibly sensitive information not available to the public for whatever reason.
The company I worked for had many internal documents. Work schedules, parking rules, staff procedures, machine procedures, server restart procedures, etc. None were confidential. Assume nothing about which you do not know.
I’m sure Apple would be thrilled with employees sharing the documents you mention, a nice schedule for stalking employees. Nice goal shifting, a document detailing parking rules will prove whether Neo chips are leftovers. 🙄
Except the A19 Pro with 12GB RAM likely would a) have placed pressure on the margins for a $599 Mac and b) been too close to the Air as to risk cannibalization.
Where I work (14,000 students & 1200 staff) all use cloud based apps and stores everything into the cloud.
Then why are you looking at the Neo not the Air or an MBP? My systems always turned coin for me as that was the whole point of in investing in them...
Yet you want Neo with A20 with 16GB which will significantly increase the price for others... Think about it, if you don't invest in yourself, nobody else will. Get an Air and move on and hopefully profit.
I still have a M1 13" MBP that still impresses. Have other HW that's far faster, but the M1 is my go to Mac traveller as I know it won't let me down... Apple Silicon was a revelation in the day and continues to be so.
