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.
Dan Moren@film_girl @jsnell I agree that I don't think most people buying this will know or care BUT I do think there's a usability problem, when you plug in to the wrong port and don't know why everything is slower. That seems like a bad experience.
Leonick@dmoren @film_girl @jsnell
If they couldn’t manage two proper USB 3.x ports it would have been better of with the two essentially being a hub, sharing the bandwidth of the one internal port.
If they couldn’t manage two proper USB 3.x ports it would have been better of with the two essentially being a hub, sharing the bandwidth of the one internal port.