MacBook Neo is: A18 Pro chip, $599, four colors. A watershed event. First Mac with a mobile processor and the end of the disruptive arc of mobile computing. From Motorola to Intel to Apple silicon M, now personal computing is an accessory to mobile computing. A sharp punctuation point.
@asymco The really interesting thing is a huge educational discount to $499.
@hugg @asymco This was the big surprise. If you assume there’s some ok residual on the device 3 years later (as is the norm) it’s a no brainer for an education deployment at scale.
@djstarr @asymco The thing about a Chromebook is my son can log into a blank one with his school id and it instantly becomes his computer, but it is also managed by the School District. MacOS is a long way from that.
@hugg @djstarr I grew up with VT-100 (DEC) as my terminal. Would also use a PC to dial in at 1200 baud and use a VT-100 emulator. As nice as that was, I still moved to a personal computing environment exclusively.
@asymco @hugg I really appreciate this analogy.
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