> No, you can't do real work on a $350 windows machine.

Sigh. I mean, even absent the obvious answers[1], that's just wrong anyway. You're being a snob. Want to run WSL? Run WSL. Want to run vscode natively? Ditto. Put it on a cheap TV and run your graphical layout and 3D modelling work. I mean, obviously it does all that stuff. OBVIOUSLY, because that stuff is all cheap and easy.

All the complaining you're doing is about preference, not capability. You're being a snob. Which is hardly weird, we're all snobs about something.

But snobs aren't going to buy the Neo either. Again, the business question here is whether the $350 junk users can be convinced to be snobs for $600.

[1] "Put Linux on it", "All of your stuff is in the cloud anyway", "It's still a thousand times faster than the machine on which I did my best work", etc...

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NetMageSCW 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean that machine from 30 years ago that was running 30 year old software that has nothing in common with today’s development? And how well does Linux run on 4GB?

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ajross 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So weird to see this kind of flaming more than a decade after it got stale and silly. I mean, yeah, kinda: a 64MB K6-300 was pretty great!

But as to the 4G quip, that's showing some ignorance of where the market is. The value segment is filled with devices like this: https://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-BrightView-N4120-Graphics/d...

That's a 16G windows box which will happily run multiple VMs for whatever your deployment environment is, something the Neo is actually going to struggle with. The Jasper Lake CPU is indeed awfully slow, but again for routine "dev" tasks that's just not a limit.

You would obviously refuse out of taste, but if you were actually forced to use this machine to do your job... you absolutely could.

	▲	mkesper an hour ago \| parent [-]
		But this has no real SSD. Back to external SSD like on Apple devices?