Used hardware is always going to be a better deal than something brand new. You can get a used M1 MacBook Pro for a similar price to a new Neo, and that will blow it out of the water on all axes except bursted single-core CPU perf. And it'll have a much better screen and trackpad than a similarly priced thinkpad.
The main place the Neo makes sense is for buying a whole classroom full of machines, or for someone who really wants to unbox something new and shiny. It's a chromebook killer.
I saw a post on a subreddit earlier where someone was considering getting rid of their 2019 Macbook Pro with an i9 and 32GB of ram, and so many of the comments were egging the poster on and saying it was an upgrade.
Terrible idea. It's cool that Apple are entering the budget space, but the hype around the Neo is nuts.
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The main place the Neo makes sense is for buying a whole classroom full of machines, or for someone who really wants to unbox something new and shiny. It's a chromebook killer.
It seems like the main complaint is that it is slow. I am not sure what all the other bits are about.
Terrible idea. It's cool that Apple are entering the budget space, but the hype around the Neo is nuts.
edit: found it https://old.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/1s2tdrm/is_the_...