This isn't for anyone to use for 6 to 8 years.

This is for people who want the cheapest MacBook possible, with the edu discount it's only 499$.

You drop it being silly, cool that's only 500$.

The thing is you could use it for 6 to 8 years if all your doing is editing documents and other tasks like that. No one is buying this to play games on or code massive AI powered applications, it's literally the "Well I need a computer sometimes may as well get the one that matches my phone"

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NoLinkToMe 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> This isn't for anyone to use for 6 to 8 years.

Why not? I would.

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hypfer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Uhm but you do realize that $500 is actually a lot of money for people that aren't living in SF and hop between startups every second tuesday, right?

There is no "only". It's $500.

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999900000999 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Keep in mind this is the same website where someone casually mentioned buying a $5,000 Lecia for their kid.

Would you rather junior drop a $500 laptop while they're not paying attention, which is what kids do, or drop a $2,000 laptop?

The second hand market on this is also going to be great. Maybe Junior upgrades to an M5 air when he starts college, he's going to sell his Neo for 300$ which is very accessible for most.

My first laptop was 350$, brought after working for 6.75$ an hour. It was objectively a piece of junk, but hey I got to do computer and it lasted about 3 years before randomly failing for one reason or another.

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Shalomboy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I could use a laugh today, do you have a link to the leica comment? It wasn't that one review of the Fuji X Half, was it?

	▲	999900000999 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was definitely the Fuji X Half review. https://arslan.io/2025/06/14/fujifilm-x-half-is-it-the-perfe... And I must make a correction, he doesn't explicitly mention trusting his kids with a 5k Leica. He's using a 10k M11 as a family camera and he lets his wife use it. Still, I'd imagine a family with this type of money would have no issue giving the kids 500$ MacBook. I should of brought up the thread where someone felt they needed to buy each daughters a Tesla...

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hypfer 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Neither.

I would like the bubble that is this website's "community" to pop, crash down back to earth and see them struggle living like normal people again.

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ericmay 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It can be a decent sized purchase if you were buying it outright, but $500 is just not a lot of money in America for the vast majority of citizens.

Though I agree with you completely regarding the "oops I dropped it".

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qn9n 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When compared to the rest of the line up it is only, the Air is now $999 for the base model, that's 1k, 500 is cheap in comparison and for the quality it beats out a lot of laptops in this price range.

	▲	hypfer 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That is a correct statement, but "whoopsie, dropped it, but no biggie, it's just $500" is not.