Mastodawn

HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".

Moore's Law is coming to an end. The Macbook Neo says "why choose?"

Nobody needs a laptop with a 40 hour battery life. Nor does anybody needs 200 cpu threads and an AI coprocessor and 256Gb of RAM and 8Tb of SSD. So we're finally seeing the sweet spot in the phase diagram drift inexorably towards the corner labelled "cheap".

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tautology

@cstross Is this not just Apple doing what other laptop manufacturers have been doing for a while? My sprogs's laptops they use for school work and playing games are a higher spec than the Neo and were cheaper.

I mean it's great that you can now enter the walled garden of a massively overrated UX for cheap, but, like most Apple products, it's nothing new or better.