> During an earnings call on March 10, co-CEO S.Y. Hsu said the $599 starting price is a “shock” to the PC industry, adding that Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and PC vendors are already discussing how to respond.Source: VideoCardz.comhttps://videocardz.com/newz/asus-co-ceo-says-apples-599-macbook-neo-is-a-shock-to-the-pc-marketThey told us PCs would only get more expensiveApple changed the conversation Macbook Neo $599
>>108349956thank you apple
>>108349956>apple innovates>pc industry shocked>plan to respond is qualcomm phone chips in low-end laptops with 8gb RAM
>>108349956I never purchased a laptop for more than 600€ and my acer is still a lot better than the 3000€ MacBook pro my job gave me. Hell even my phone runs absolute circles around that MacBook
>>108349956They did get more expensive, you used to be able to get one of these for $200. They were called chromebooks.
>>108349956The sad thing, the really sad thing, about all of this is that even if SNSV could slap together a laptop at that price with comparable performance and battery life, it would still be running CopilotOS.
Good. We need some competition on this price level.It's hard not to recommend this laptop to normies that don't plan any changing their OS. The preinstalled version of Windows is so incredibly bad and full of crap on pretty much any laptop. And a laptop with bad specs and a lot of bloat is just a no go. Also, security and privacy will be much better on this device.I fucking hate apple's locked down everything but the hoops you have to jump through to have a better, more private and more secure experience on anything else is just insane. Not feasible for normies.
>>108350114>my aceryuropoors are something else lmao
>>108350362Cry harder shitvinder
>>108350383>my acer fuking LOL
>>108350413Cry harder shitvinder
>>108350507>my acermy sides..
>>108350114>my acer you weren't even a little embarrassed typing that?
>>108350413>>108350530>>108350534How much did Apple pay you?>Postan from my HP mini
>>108350534it's a very decent device. I've always bought acer because they never failed me, they withstood some incredible punishment - stuff that would have left a MacBook bent to shit. And considering that the Acer is still better despite being twice as old and a fifth of the price really speaks volumes.But I'd rather use a raspberry as my daily driver than a fucking Mac
>>108350186implying that MacOS is in any way better than Win11, hilariousThe self-resizing tabs in MacOS alone are a reason not to use that shit, and there's thousands more
>>108350538>HP miniBased. I need to fix the fan on mine.
>>108350653I'm a Mac and Linux user. I have an old Windows laptop I use rarely, and Windows 11 is my least favorite OS to deal with.
>>108350114does anyone actually fall for this?
>>108350673Truth be told, I'm still on 10, but MacOS is an absolute UI/UX clusterfuck, and people refuse to see itThe only people I know who like Macs are people who are scared of technology
>>108350679Acers have been pretty damn decent since around 2018.HPs, Dells and low end Lenovo all suffer from dumb shit like hinge issues.Acer knows their place and optimizes their shit for the price.
>>108349956>ASUS's co-CEOASUS owns Pegatron, the company that makes most of Apple's Macbooks.
>>108350710pic related was my first acer, that thing was damn near unbreakable. The only thing that failed (after like 10 years) was the GPU dissoldering itself.
>>108350710You live in the shadow universe.For me my HPs never break, but Acers are made out of fragile shit plastic that shatters if you look at it.
>>108349956Lmao I can't wait for the absolute nuclear disaster this is gonna cause in the PC market.1. Apple releases decent "apple chromebook" for $5992. Every single manufacturer freaks the fuck out3. Releases $559 Windows 11 laptops with 8GB of ram and worse build quality than $1 temu products4. PCs doesn't even work because consumer windows need minimum 16GB these days due to all the spyware bloat5. Every single cons00mer goes "lol" and buys the apple one instead, skyrocketing apples OS marketshare6. The only customers are the ones who buy it to install linux on it to use as a server or mediapc or cheap stardew valley machine or something7. Retard manufacturers lose a bunch of money and microsoft has to have yet another "all hands on deck" about their falling marketshareThank you apple for making them all suffer
>>108350757Higher End HPs like Elitebooks are pretty good, but low end shite like the Pavilion series are absolute dogshit.
>>108350760Nobody is going to buy a Mac because it doesn't run the software they need.Windows has 95% marketshare for a reason.
>>108350757I've had an inverse experience. I once bought an HP that felt totally hollow. Took it to uni for a single day, it broke, sent it back, got an Acer for the same price, superb quality in comparison. If you compare at same price range, acer tends to be better
>>108350727yeah but MBN is quanta so they may be miffed
>>108349956>MacBook Neonetbooks are back huh?ffs
>>108350778No, it's a 13 inch laptop.
>>108350778>netbooks are back huh?This is the world we live in like watching human intelligence spiral down a plughole in a sink
Apple being able to drop compat and tell their cattle to sink or swim really saved them here. I wouldn't be surprised if the biggest premium in a "Windows laptop" BOM is the shitel or gAyMD CPU.
>>108350782It's a netbookAn overpriced one.Again.
>>1083507608gigs of ram for $559 sounds like a steal these days.
>>108350767Windows has marketshare because gaymurrs. And they're a dying breed because $5090 prices and AI slop in the kernel.Don't forget the popularity of the steam deck, and how hyped people are for the gabe cube. And that's all linux.We're literally going towards a world where gamers run linux and the rest are on macos because it's more normie friendly than microsoft could ever hope to be. And corporations are just waiting for an excuse to ditch windows in favor of something free. Most of their employees are tablet babies by now anyway, so not a big problem.
>>108350800Have you ever actually held or used a netbook? Those things were trash tier plastic monstrosities. And costed around 60% of the neo.I'd happily pay a bit extra if it meant I got apple build quality.
>>108350767MacOS has Microsoft’s office suite and also apple’s office suite and apple’s creative suite and that covers most employed people that need a laptop. Also if you’re a student all you need is just a pdf viewer, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. MacOS simply doesn’t have games.
>>108350804>the popularity of the steam deckcloud portal device>>108350804>the gabe cubecloud portal device>windows 11cloud portal device>apple productssocietal holding tank for morons and also walled garden cloud portal devices
>>108350760>'apple chromebook'a device so shit, they warn you twice
>>108350804Windows has market share because somehow even some dogshit made 20 years ago using the gayest obsolete pascal framework still runs on it. That's basically it.
>>108350811>pay a bit extra if it meant I got apple build qualityyeah.
>>108350813MacOS also has a batshit insane UI/UXOnly brainwashed people can tolerate that bullshit
>>108350824I never transfer photos over mtp desu. I'm just glad they have usb-c so I don't need two different cables for my work phone and not work phone.
>>108350793Americans voted for Trump twice, of course dumb shit like Apple would become popular as well.
>>108350824> Sitting here with a perfectly functional iPad from 2018 despite abuse> iPhone 13 still great> People still buying intel macs> M1 Airs is fan favorite and still widely used by a ton of people> Apple vintage computers is the most popular vintage computer among enthusiastsI keep forgetting people here live in some kind of weird tumblr-level reality bubble based on shitty memes, my bad.
>>108350867I have a Mac and absolutely hate it
>>108349956don't worry pcbros you can enjoy your mediatek 97600 pc edition and Exynos laptops very soon
>>108350899as long as I don't have to use MacOS, I'm game
>>108350876Only thing good about macos is apple prevents ((security software)) from being as poorly invasive as it is on Windows. That's it.
>>108350899Mediatek laptops would unironically be based.$199 laptop with 28 hours battery life? Yes please!
>>108350867and the contrary, apple fanboys who watch hours of apple commentary to justify their purchase.
>>108350760>3. Releases $559 Windows 11 laptops with 8GB of ram and worse build quality than $1 temu products>4. PCs doesn't even work because consumer windows need minimum 16GB these days due to all the spyware bloatBrands already do this on third world countries. Some even ship with old 768px sceens and HDDs in the absolute bottom tier devices.Personally I think that instead of making them import x86 craptops from the third world, this will make brands bet again on ARM chips, but instead of using the new Snapdragon X2, they'll pick old SD X1 and SD8 chips to have thin devices without fans and act like the lack of power is a feature.
>>108349956get rekt applel
>>108350530Cry harder shitvinder
>>108351110>LenovoSetting your money on fire is a better option than buying from that brand.
Apple is a marketing company, not a technology company. Threads about apple should be banned and removed.
>>108351173at least they real real hardware lmao
>>108350114>my acerthis is the brownest post ever
>>108350760W10/W11 need 12GB minimum to deal with the crappy updates MS pushes out, but 12GB dimms don't exist so you need 2x8 or 1x16
>>108351404>12GB dimms don't existyes they do they are more common on laptops
there is no equivalent to macsmacs have:>soldered SSD/RAM/WLANdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs >when pajeetOS runs out of RAM it swapfile rapes the SSD to death within 3 yearsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>when the SSD dies it bricks your entire currybook because the EFI is stored on the soldered SSD to save $0.05 on a dedicated chipdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>components serial numbered and tied to the motherboard to prevent repair and replacement (including battery)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>riveted keyboard that requires total destruction of the chassis to replacedoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>flexgate cables that are so brittle they crack from opening your screen past 90 degrees more than 2 dozen timesdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>screens so fucking shit they have over 90ms response times (essentially 10Hz)doesnt exist on 99% of PCs>screen made from pajeet trash glass that cracks from temperature change in seasons or tape over the iBotnet webcamdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>so fire and explosion prone the FAA have banned them from all flightsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>uses phone CPU that's so shit it gets destroyed by decade old i3s from 2017 and can only "compete" by cheating at benchmarks in extreme edge cases with hardware acceleratorsdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>curryniggers at apploo get so full of sniffing their own currynigger silicon shit they ship currybooks with no fans and they run so hot they melt the keyboard keysdoesnt exist on 99% of PCs>keyboards with 63.5% failure rateunheard of on PCs, and yet you curryniggers defend it with "jus werx fer me!"just because you're in the 36.5% survivor group doesn't make your currynigger trash any goodthis list goes on foreverthere's no PC laptop as total fucking currynigger shit as crapple's streetshitter booksthey are the biggest heaps of steaming currynigger shit in the history of computing second only to curryPhones
>>108350362>>108350534>>108350679>>108351394your street shitter currybook literally gets destroyed by decade old intlel netbooks
>>108351404>W10/W11 need 12GB minimumNot reallyWindows 11 uses about ~1.5GB when memory pressure is high.On a 2GB machine you can have windows and maybe a few browser tabs before you get into swapping territory.Personally, I would be ok with 8GB on a windows machine for the same usecase a Neo is used for (web browsing, office, etc)It probably would do good for MS to release a more stripped-down windows but that would mostly involve tuning down the "consumer experiences" which ends up being a shitload Edge instances always loaded for search in the start menu and stupid news feeds
>>108349956$599 iPhone Pro when?
>>108350362>>108350413>>108350530>>108350534Ilpve how amerimutt measure and compare hardware by brand. Really shows how.fucking stupid and brainwashed they are
>>108351404as bad as M$ is, their curryniggers are still better than crapple's curryniggers
>>108349956
>>108349956>both SKUs come with 8GB RAMWow. It's shit.
>>108351486>>soldered SSD/RAM/WLAN>doesnt exist on 99% of PCsI absolutely loathe the cult of Jobs but you're being facetious. So much shit comes with soldered RAM now.
>>108351617You're replying to a bot that has been spamming the same copypasted message for almost two years.
>>108349956I sell Asus things and my god they are incredibly jew with their prices on everything
>>108351656Oh. I only browse /g/ on the shitter. Thanks for pointing it out.
>>108351522This is clearly written by someone who has not tried Win11 with 8GB of ram.Want to play a game? Fuck you.Want to use more than 3 browser tabs? Also fuck you.Mandatory Windows update spinning up to download more slop? Extra fuck you with a serving of go fuck yourself.8GB gives you the privilege of looking at the desktop and clicking around menus. If you actually want to do something besides watching video on MPC/VLC or playing stardew valley you're gonna have a very, very bad time.
Glad I've never entered the icuck ecosystem/walled garden Someone bought me an ipod years ago but I hardly used it since my phone could play video and audio Imagine thinking this piece of ewaste is something good, 8gb of ram is just sad and it's soldered to the motherboard so no way of even expanding lmaoPoors will pick that garbage up anyhow because they only use devices to consoom media turds
My thinkpad $200
>>108350767>Windows has 95% marketshareHad.
>>108350172Chromebooks are mostly VERY low end hardware, to the point even new ones get spanked by any old ass Core 2 Duo.
>>108351935Now down to somewhere between 65-70%
>>108351617>>108351656>>108351832street shit harder currynigger
>>108352010Bro why would I even want to compile linux on a power constrained device?
>>108352074Don't reply to the bot/schizo.
>>108352074>why would i need any use case that my steaming heap of currynigger shit cant handle?
>>108349956We need Windows laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 now.
>>108349956>Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and PC vendors are already discussing how to respond.<holy shit bros we can sell ewaste now
