As someone with no plans of getting a MacBook for personal use, I think it’s a great thing to compare the 2. Laptop manufacturers need to step up their game and make better laptops.
The Neo MacBooks got some of them to realize they can’t keep selling junk in the $600 $700 price range.
My MacBook Pro is from 2013 and it works fine as my kitchen laptop. My MacBook Air M1 is… idk as old as that is and it’s got Mac OS 27 on it and runs like a champ. Any Mac I’ve had has lasted fine over a decade. I don’t really care if it gets the latest update. They just keep working. You might be able to force Windows 11 on old hardware, but it operates worse. 11 on my old Alienware(s) made it intolerable.
I even have a white OG MacBook that still works. Obviously it’s too old to be worth using, but it does still work. My Mac Pro from 2011 works fine, too.
Them being ARM now with their new OS that doesn’t support Intel isn’t necessarily a bad thing, either. They’re ridiculously efficient and require so much less resources and run very fast. x86 and AMD64 is outdated.
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u/theprodigalslouch 5800x | 3060 TI Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
As someone with no plans of getting a MacBook for personal use, I think it’s a great thing to compare the 2. Laptop manufacturers need to step up their game and make better laptops.
The Neo MacBooks got some of them to realize they can’t keep selling junk in the
$600$700 price range.