| ▲ | zemvpferreira 7 hours ago |
| A perfectly performant, luxury-feeling laptop with a secure OS for under $500? This thing is going to eat Chromebooks and budget HP shitboxes for lunch. Sure a lot of niceties are missing but compared to the experience most people have with their $500 laptops, this is going to be night and day. |
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| ▲ | SirMaster 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Depends what you consider luxury feeling. It's so stripped down. Aside from the slower CPU, half the ram, and half the SSD as the Air this is also what it's all missing compared to the Air: TouchID, MagSafe, slightly bigger wider color (P3) screen, better 12MP CenterStage camera, 2 more speakers, 1 more mic, backlit keyboard, ambient light sensor, force-touch trackpad, WiFi 7, 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports, larger battery with longer runtime and faster charging. Yes you can get TouchID with the 512GB upgrade for more money on the Neo. |
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| ▲ | quacker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | You are comparing it to other Apple laptops but you should be comparing with its competition at a $600 price point. The aluminum enclosure, touchpad, battery life, display, and performance are all best in class (or near enough) at this price point. | |
| ▲ | wiseowise 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is still miles ahead of plastic garbage other vendors sell. | | |
| ▲ | cromka 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | People miss that point. An entry level Windows laptop is an upper and complete garbage. You get the ick within seconds of using it. This thing will sell like crazy. No longer is Apple an expensive brand! |
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| ▲ | Geonode 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's $600, unless you're a school. |
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| ▲ | apparent 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Academic pricing also applies to individual purchases by students, staff, and faculty. In-store, they ask for an ID. But they don't use any mechanism for online purchases, aside from attestation. I think they used to use edu email addresses to confirm, but now that so many people have alumni emails, that would be useless (and not capture k12 students, whose email addresses typically cannot receive outside emails). | | | |
| ▲ | ezfe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In the United States (population of 340 million): * 86 million (27%) are under 21 and most of those are students.
* Those people have parents, assume 2 parents per 2 children = 86 million parents (27%) That means 55% of the US population is eligible for the cheaper rate before you even account for people getting secondary degrees, educators, and yes - the schools themselves. | |
| ▲ | stetrain 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Or a student, or a family member of a student. Also these days Apple actually allows sales and discounts at retailers. I bet this will be on sale for $499 at Amazon or BestBuy before the end of the year. | |
| ▲ | happyopossum 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Or a student, or a teacher. Individuals get edu pricing too... | |
| ▲ | busymom0 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | EDIT: With education discount, in Canada, it's good price: $679 for base, $849 for Touch ID + 512 SSD. -- $799 in Canada for the base model & $999 for the one with touchID & 512 GB ssd. Looks like both models only come with 8gb ram. |
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| ▲ | jeffbee 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You can't kill Chromebook with hardware. Apple needs software if they want more share of that market. |
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| ▲ | bubblewand 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | What software do they need to compete with chromebooks? It has a browser (it could have several browsers, if you want). I personally prefer all their productivity software to Google’s or Microsoft’s, and it’s not a close race, but you can use those on it too. Accessibility, I was shocked to find is kinda awful on Chromebooks when I had to try to configure it, considering their target markets are kids and the elderly, while Apple’s the gold standard at that. | | | |
| ▲ | commandersaki 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That's exactly why they will kill Chromebook. Better software ecosystem. | | |
| ▲ | jeffbee 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | That's great if they intend to, but it would be more convincing if there was any sign of them working on the software at all. |
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| ▲ | tedd4u 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Can you say more about what software? (I'm sure the Neo runs Chrome perfectly fine) | | |
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