My wife bought a Neo and has been very happy with it. I was wary of the 8gb memory limit but she is running claude code doing web development with a reasonable number of tabs open and no noticeable lag, so I'd say its definitely getting a lot of mileage out of it.

It honestly seems good enough that it might cannibalize Macbook Air sales.

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majorchord a few seconds ago | parent | next [-]

How on Earth did you find a wife who codes? Asking for a friend.

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

It might be more likely that it cannibalizes used Macbook Air sales.

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GeekyBear an hour ago | parent | next [-]

After years of incremental upgrades to the Airs, a new entry level M5 Air gives you double the RAM, double the storage, and double the CPU and GPU performance of an M1 Air.

Hopefully used Airs will come up for sale more frequently, as they remain a step up from the Neo.

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adastra22 an hour ago | parent [-]

At double the price.

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		Sure. Used M1 Airs are selling for roughly half the price of a new Neo.

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Octoth0rpe 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

which seem to be out of stock in any case, so probably not a loss for apple.

https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac

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bjelkeman-again 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I am running Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex and Docker Desktop on a last generation Intel Air, that admittedly has 12 GB RAM. One has to be a bit careful with more apps. But I look forward to an upgrade. Maybe a Neo, but more likely a second hand M.