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The Differences Between the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air

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The Technical Differences Between the MacBook Neo and MacBook Air - 512 Pixels

With a price point of $599 (or $499 for students!) Apple had to make some cuts when designing the MacBook Neo. Here’s a list of what separates the MacBook Neo from the $1099 MacBook Air: No MagSafe One of the two USB-C ports is limited to USB 2.0 speeds of just 480 Mb/s No Thunderbolt […]

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JohnOCFII Mar 4

@512pixels Interesting where different people find their breakpoints. No backlit keyboard alone would push me to the Air. Even the Logitech keyboard case for my iPad has backlit keys! Maybe I “compute more in the dark” than most…

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Lieven Dekeyser

@JohnOCFII @512pixels My breakpoint for a personal laptop would be storage. Other than that, the biggest mistake (in my opinion) for a mass-market laptop is having 2 USB ports that look exactly the same but behave differently.