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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.

edit: found it https://old.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/1s2tdrm/is_the_...

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That specific Macbook Pro model is famously bad to the extent that people have tried to suggest Apple made that generation intentionally bad to make the m1 look more revolutionary. The Neo's still not going to be better performance when plugged in, but it's a more reasonable comparison than the stats suggests.

Was that the old or new keyboard? If it was the old one, I'd take the downgrade of everything else, to get a keyboard that doesn't jam up if you accidentally breathe on it.

It is the butterlfy I think but they had pretty much fixed it by that point, and OP wasn't complaining about the keyboard

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