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....
Nick Heer@jsnell @film_girl Is the USB 2 port (or, more precisely, having only one USB 3 port of the two) perhaps downstream of the choice to use the A18? I agree that it’s not a dealbreaker but it *feels* nickel-and-dimey (and confusing, given that they look the same).
@nickheer @film_girl yes, it was impossible to do two usb 3 ports on this chip.
@jsnell @nickheer yes. And that was a choice Apple made. They could have used an iPad chip or an older iPhone Pro chip. I understand the technical limitations; my point is these were all limitations that Apple chose. And fine. But I don’t give them any grace or a pass on this just because they want 50% margins.
philmehew@film_girl @jsnell @nickheer A great point..why do we have iPads with laptop chips in them and laptops with phone chips in them…can’t imagine it makes more than a 10% cost difference, and if they wanted to break into the lower price market, they aught to have absorbed that additional cost to show users in that price bracket what a proper Mac is like to own.