Mastodawn

Meanwhile, a thought about the Macbook Neo:

The Neo uses an A18 Pro SOC, the 2024 iPhone Pro cpu—the iPhone 17 Pro runs on the A19 Pro. (The Neo soaks up their stockpile of high-end phone rejects.)

Apple's about to ramp up for the 2026 iPhones, which will release in September on the A20Pro.

Phones outsell laptops by a huge margin so I think the current Neo will be quietly replaced by an A19 Pro model in September, to use up the reject stockpile once as iPhone 17 sales tapers off.

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Charlie Stross Mar 22

Implication: if you want a Macbook Neo this year, maybe wait until September—unless you expect the coming supply chain shock to hit Apple, too. Which is not impossible if TSMC can't meet their chip delivery dates.

If that happens, prices will shoot up and scarcity economics will take over, so buy now and be prepared to run it for the next decade.

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Complexity of systems 🏳️‍⚧️

@cstross like the Neo is currently on the top of my potential new laptops list (my current laptop basically hasn't been a laptop for years the hinges are currently held together with bulldog clips and the battery only lasts about an hour and a half) but even if I do manage to scrape together the money for it (I'm on a more or less fixed income so that's no mean feet) I'll still probably keep using my old laptop as a quasi desktop machine