There 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!
@film_girl I'm planning to use the student discount to get the 512 GB one down to $600. šŸ˜‰

And hell yes on fun colors. I'm going for the yellow, both because it matches my iPhone 14 Plus, and because the "indigo" is not the bright pop I was hoping for. (Also, I basically had that color of blue for a computer already on my Surface Laptop and Surface Go).