“the macbook neo will usher in a new age of software tinkering” cool! so they finally rereleased HyperCard?

…no? ok fine, at least they published some new developer guidelines such that developers will need to ensure their apps run great on the neo for 8 years since it’s such a performance gap from the high end macbook pro they’re using to develop, right?

…also no? oh dear, how strange. the neo is starting to look a lot like the utterly obvious: an overgrown iPad for SaaS apps

if you’re considering a macbook neo or defending the macbook neo in my replies like a fucking weirdo, please do our environment a solid and get a used device that’ll outperform the neo instead

if available, a surplus thinkpad running linux will knock your fucking socks off, I guarantee it. it is the repairable, tinkerable, cozy system you imagine the neo must be.

believe it or not you don’t need to buy a brand new device that’s, by both its spec sheet and benchmarks, less performant than a 2020 MacBook Air, in the opening stages of a global economic depression

you don’t actually owe these capitalists your attention, your free advertising, or your money. they do not give a shit that you’ll be the goodest little consumer and use your neo to make cozy little indie games and ssh into servers and program mcus and post on fedi. you’re invisible to them.

gimme some of that ✨apple magic✨ that makes a 6 year old device a miserable experience but a new device with worse specs and benchmarks than the 6 year old device somehow wonderful until 2034

what do you mean the magic is that it’s built for apple intelligence and other SaaS horseshit and as an entry-level market wedge for Apple’s take on adobe’s horrifically exploitative Creative Cloud suite