My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's squarely where the Neo landed for the good-but-cheap laptop category. My nephew is also my godson, and to kick off his computing journey, I thought I'd let him choose from a Framework 12 I bought to test, or the MacBook Neo I bought a couple months ago to use around the studio.
    • misk@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      iBooks were nowhere near as performant as contemporaries because they ran on IBM PowerPC CPUs which were showing their limitations already (it was the driving force for switch to x86 in 2005). 1999 starting price for G3 iBook was $1600 ($3100 adjusted for inflation), Neo is $600. Jeff Geerling is 40, he probably remembers.