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.
Penguin@film_girl @jsnell Agree, but only to the point of not differentiating the ports with, say, a charge symbol that says this port is for charging & not data. The A19 will take care of the 12GB RAM when it arrives next year, maybe it can manage 2 USB 3 ports too.
@PenguinToot @jsnell this assumes we get annual updates to the Neo, which I hope we do but I don’t think we can count on.