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Unless I'm missing something, I hate fanboys

> The MacBook Neo is a new kind of product for Apple

It's just a laptop with a dumbed down CPU. It is not a NEW KIND of product. Apple already sells laptop with different CPUs..

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I think "value laptop" is the new product—for Apple.

The closest they ever came to something similar was the far too expensive 12" MacBook, and the far-too-compromised PowerBook Duo (IMHO).

And to zoom out a bit, Apple has lots of experience selling budget devices e.g. iPhone SE.

12" MacBook, PowerBook Duo, PowerBook 2400, and first-gen MacBook Air were attempts at making the smallest possible Mac notebook.

The Neo is their only attempt to date at making the least expensive possible Mac notebook.

That’s a very spec-focused way to think about something that has nothing to do with specs.

This is a laptop being sold at half the price of the cheapest laptop Apple has ever sold save for some oddities like the eMate.

Apple has never threatened the “I just need a working cheap laptop for $500” market in this way before.

It's new and revolutionary, because it's the first sub-$1000 laptop from Apple.

It is absolutely a distinct, new kind of product for them and I don’t understand how it is fanboyism to say so. They have very few, very clear lanes of products with few variations. This is an entirely different fleet/price point for their laptops. It doesn’t even use the M chip, which every other computer they offer does.

It’s a budget laptop. They didn’t have a budget laptop prior.

To Apple it is a new kind of product.

Apple invents chromebooks!

For double the price!

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