MacBook Neo

jsheard

I wonder if this means a Mac Nano with an A-series chip is on the table now. Essentially a beefed up Apple TV that runs macOS.

joshstrange

I'm kind of shocked that they don't have much higher battery life. I'll be really interested to see one of these in person, those colors look great. Why is it that the Pro devices always get the boring colors? If/when my M1 MBP dies (a long time I'd guess) I might consider one of these as a remote/couch laptop to connect back to my main machine.

joe_mamba

1. Gawd damn, scrolling through that page full of all those bright colors with their saturation cranked up to 11, feels like I'm being flash-banged by a Cocomelon episode. No other page from Apple is like that. wtf 2. Would a used older hand-me-down Macbook Air/Pro not be better performance/value than this iPhone board in a cheap laptop shell? There was a guy here saying he bought a used Macbook Air M1 16GB for 250 Euros.

r0fl

"Education customers can purchase it for $499." That is insane pricing for a brand new apple product. They will sell so many of these!

opjjf

$599, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB, *No* Touch ID $699, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB, Touch ID Honestly pretty fantastic product and price. This is clearly targeted towards education but I think I will happily replace by MacBook Air M1 with this :)

Retr0id

I wonder if the bootloader will be locked down, I hope not.

crims0n

8GB RAM, no apparent upgrade option. Regardless, these will be insanely popular. Apple has finally made a play for the budget laptop market.

ValentineC

Why do all the low-end Apple laptops not have USB-C ports on the right? That's one of the main reasons I had to get a MacBook Pro.

alexwrboulter

Because of course there's no magsafe.

ValentineC

Why do all the low-end Apple laptops not have USB-C ports on the right? That's one of the main reasons I had to get a MacBook Pro.

trillic

Mom is getting a new laptop

dgxyz

8Gb. Fuck off no chance. Not in a world of everyone shipping fat browsers with everything. Edit: everything my kids use in their educational side is browser based or thick web apps. This is going to suck. We shouldn't be here and 8Gb should be absolutely fine, but that is not the case.

WarmWash

An iPhone in a laptop body to be an Apple "Chromebook", I can only imagine this will be pretty popular.

ndiddy

I think the lack of RAM kind of kills this product for general use. 8 GB of RAM with no option to get more is ridiculous in 2026. I bet they'll be very popular with whatever school districts have stuck with Apple rather than switching to Chromebooks though.

lvl155

Why don’t they just allow MacOS on iPad Pro. It’s what people want.

lvl155

Why don’t they just allow MacOS on iPad Pro. It’s what people want.

syntaxing

Interesting how it runs on the A18. I wonder if this means they will try to unify macOS and iOS within this decade.

moolcool

You can now officially get a device with mutli-user support for only $100 more than the base model iPad. They've really got to throw us a bone with what the iPad is capable of.

cj

Is this the end of chromebooks?

saejox

8gb ram is criminal. For $100 more Air is the one to buy.