Awful branding aside this will be dead within 3 years.

MacBook neo @ $499 and the ability to finance it leaves almost zero room in the US market for an Android laptop.

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It looks like will be a ChromeOS successor and their demographic will be schools?

aggregator-ios 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Branding is way off. Marketed as an AI laptop sounds like local inference to engineers, but no. The general public are weary of AI. The Neo is selling so well that Apple is running out of the A18 Pro chips. Rumors are that Apple may have 2 steps: mark as sold out, or upgrade to the latest iPhone SOC which comes with an upgrade to 12GB of RAM. I also suspect this is Ternus' first product launch as CEO (not officially until Sept 1).

Anyway, this will be fun to see price point, manufacturer differentiation (surprised that Google isn't building this themselves) and reviews. Hard to see how it competes with the Neo at $499 that can run a full Desktop OS and integrates well with the ecosystem.

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fooker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The general public are weary of AI.

Have you interacted with the 'general public' in the last year or so?

Every non-technical person I know uses AI for 'fact checking' now, as well as 'doing the math' before deciding something, despite these two literally being the well known blind spots of modern AI. People have adopted AI suspiciously cleanly into their habits and workflows.

The only person I have seen being weary of AI recently is a labor activist, for good reason.

	▲	functionmouse an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I'm seeing a wary public where I'm at. Dunno what's up with your area.

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aggregator-ios 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A simple search for "neo" is now up to 32 results, up from 6 at the time of this comment :) Somewhere someone said why Neo when Googlebook would be 1/2 the cost, but I highly doubt its going to be $250. No official pricing has been released.

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fragmede 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Between Crostini and Android, it's "full desktop os" that much of a differentiator? And as far as "works well with the ecosystem", the press release makes it sound like this will integrate well with an Android phone.

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kx_x 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not _just_ being able to finance; the 0% interest and 24-month period is amazing!

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pier25 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah this is going the way of the Pixelbook.