Christina WarrenThere are obvious deficits to the MacBook Neo — connectivity is a huge one, but I’m just stoked there is a $500 MacBook (assuming you use the student discount, which of course you obviously should) and in fun colors!
Jason Snell@film_girl I just wonder how much connectivity the buyers of a $599 laptop need....
@jsnell I think having only a single USB 3 port sucks, full stop. It’s offensive to me, tbh. The DTK from 6 years ago had better than this. The bandwidth problem here makes even getting a dock a very, very difficult trade-off. Especially when full MacBook Airs with 16GB of RAM have been available (granted not widely for $600, but certainly for $700 more commonly). We can quibble on if the buyer cares, but my point is they shouldn’t have to worry.
Steven Op de beeck@film_girl @jsnell this MacBook isn’t for you, it’s for people that will use the ports on this laptop a few times per month, mostly for a usb stick or some headphones, and charging.
@stevenodb @jsnell $150 Chromebooks have better connectivity options is my point. No one — especially not people who spend $600 or $700 on a laptop — should have to worry that they plugged their thumb drive into the wrong port and were transported back to 2004 when speeds are so slow they are genuinely unusable. Apple hasn’t sold a laptop with USB 2 since 2013. (1/2)
No, this laptop isn’t for me, but I’m not going to be classist enough to pretend that these buyers don’t deserve the same basic features every laptop sold for over a decade has had. (2/2)