> I don't think this is about the macbook neo.

It shouldn't be, except that the author chose to make every single paragraph about Mac, Apple ecosystem and bashing Chromebook.

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creshal 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And faking being sick so he could clap at Apple marketing events. He kinda lost me there.

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RattlesnakeJake 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He's looking back to a time when they were still special. When every keynote brought out a new, interesting product, feature, OS enhancement, etc. Back in the Steve Jobs era, it was still worth tuning in every year to see what was new.

	▲	raincole 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The whole article is about how Apple is still special just like when he was a kid. But anyway, I find it funny that author implies if a kid gets a MacBook Neo they will explore all the possibilities to use and customize it, but somehow the same kid won't try to push a Chromebook to its limit. It 100% matches my stereotype of how Apple fans view machines.
	▲	creshal 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, you'd find out about it all in the newspapers a few hours later, and none if it was "clap to yourself in an empty room" impressive anyway. I was around back then and I didn't feel the need to act like a drug addict whenever Steve Jobs opened his mouth.

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criddell 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Lighten up. He was a kid and he knows how silly that was.

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markild 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd agree it is about the Neo in the sense that the device and the talk around it obviously triggered this post.

I don't think the author is exactly bashing the Chromebook. I'm reading it in that the author praise an open ecosystem where you have flexibility and the choice to "take off the guard rails" and go where the device was not originally made to take you.

There's an argument to be made that it is ironic that Apple is the example of this, but to me that shows why I _still_ like MacOS, when all the other variants (iPadOS and iOS) are entirely locked down.

	▲	NamlchakKhandro 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		it's so wild that we're in a place now where the utterly brainwashed can say this with a straight face: > There's an argument to be made that it is ironic that Apple is the example of this, but to me that shows why I _still_ like MacOS, when all the other variants (iPadOS and iOS) are entirely locked down.