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.
Kids like being cool and trendy. Much more than adults (don’t believe me? Go to an opensource conference and count the macs). Anything from the fruit store has been successfully marketed as lit (or whatever the kids say these days). And Geerling, for all the good he does, doesn’t care about spyware, lock-in, monopolies, or big tech. He’s a pragmatist. Whether that means his godson in “the land of freedom” ends up in the walled garden or not isn’t any concern to him.
Of course the nephew chose the Neo.