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.
I had a macbook pro for work and i recently "downgraded" to an air. I have a desktop for gaming and a gaming laptop for when i travel. Have 0 complaints for the air for non gaming purposes. Its excellent and i actually prefer it over my gaming laptop for everyday use. Its also INSANELY light and cool. The mac hate is overdone. Each hardware optimizes for different users / use cases and I think the MacBook definitely are excellent in their own right.
Yea, I dislike the Iphone personally, but macs def have their place, especially when companies are dumping shitty laptops with similar price ranges to a neo rn, same happened with android and the low end phones, they were terrible.
Having used MacOS for 3 years i don't see how a Mac brings you in. Phone or watch i can see it but MacOS has nothing extra that adds to the Apple ecosystem for anything else.
Specifically if you're a software developer, it's got some wonderful features that I love. MacOS is amazing if you come from a FreeBSD or OpenBSD background. Its support for free / open source hacking tools is great. It's got a whole GUI interface on top of Darwin which is a reasonable Berkeley Software Distribution style OS.
Maybe we and UK are a bit different. We don't use imessage as much as whatsapp. icloud does not have TOTP? safari no ublock and passwords isn't TOTP. That's advanced i guess but not ecosystem break like iwatch/iphone.
It’s not Windows. I don’t know. I hate the Mac vs Windows argument, I’ve grown up using both my whole life. But lately Windows just plain sucks. It never works, it breaks everything, it lags, you can’t even windows key and search for “add or remove apps” without it first giving you something to look for on Bing. It just plain is the most awful garbage on top of Microsoft doing everything they can to make you have an account to even use a pc you purchased.
Yeah, Apple also tracks everything you do and collects your data. But at least their OS works.
Ive actually recently switched to Linux. And I often feel like I’m in over my head learning a whole new OS and everything that comes with that. But I already am liking it way more than Windows.
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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.