Unless you’re a gamer or have other specific use cases, that’s it. 500$ and it does what you need.
From a corporate pov, I know I’d rather support 500 Neos over 500 generic laptops. One vendor is responsible for everything. No bickering between Intel , Microsoft and Lenovo when things go wrong.
I reckon schools will get the Neo for 450 to 400 at volume. And app developers have to meet good software again, your end user only has eight gigs of RAM.
> And app developers have to meet good software again, your end user only has eight gigs of RAM.
I wouldn't bet on it, especially in an corporate setting. IT departments seem to love filling every inch of their firm laptop's CPU and RAM with security and remote access stuff. I've seen that same thing happen in every company I've worked for recently: high-end laptops sitting at 100% ressource usage absolutely all the time.
How many years of support does Apple guarantee with the Neo? At some point in the future, even though the hardware is fine, it will be unsupported, and potentially vulnerable to whatever exploits are built into its version of MacOS.
Perhaps by that time the M3 will have better Linux support, but dealing with the 8GB memory size limitation will become more difficult as time ticks by.
Unless you’re a gamer or have other specific use cases, that’s it. 500$ and it does what you need.
From a corporate pov, I know I’d rather support 500 Neos over 500 generic laptops. One vendor is responsible for everything. No bickering between Intel , Microsoft and Lenovo when things go wrong.
I reckon schools will get the Neo for 450 to 400 at volume. And app developers have to meet good software again, your end user only has eight gigs of RAM.