Comment by blazarquasar

11 hours ago

Surface Laptop is 1099€ vs 699€ for the Macbook Neo in Germany.

Macbook Neo is also 219ppi vs Surface Laptop at 178ppi. We’ll see about performance, but i’d expect the macbook to be on par or better.

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pjmlp  10 hours ago

Except most Germans don't buy Surface Laptops, and there are much cheaper options with 8 GB, naturally they lack a glowing apple to show off at Starbucks.

It is also actually 800 euro if you want a proper SSD storage in 2026.

And as mentioed, get out of German economy, into the southern and eastern countries, or over the Mediterrean to see who gets a Neo outside the well in life families, or maybe bundled with a cable TV contract bound to five years.

  • rbanffy  10 hours ago

    > they lack a glowing apple to show off at Starbucks.

    If your MacBook has a glowing apple, you might be running Snow Leopard. You need to upgrade like now.

    • rescbr  8 hours ago

      I miss the glowing apple on my white polycarbonate MacBook. What I don't miss is the shitty Intel GMA X3100 iGPU and Apple not releasing a 64 bit driver for it.

      Should have spent the money on a MacBook Pro with a real GPU, I would have used that computer way longer than I had.

    • pjmlp  9 hours ago

      Thankfully I don't own any, I rather have computers with replaceable parts, more environment friendly, thus not something I need to worry about.

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  • antfarm  9 hours ago

    The Apple logo is on the wrong side of the screen to be concerned about. Apple's OS and user experience is miles ahead of the competition and so are the displays they use.

    • margorczynski  7 hours ago

      The Mac OS is the thing that keeps me away from those computers. I really don't like when a piece of software tries to treat me like I have some kind of brain injury and needs to "help" me at every point.

    • achenet  7 hours ago

      I disagree about Apple's OS and UI, I prefer the user experience of Linux :)

      With a distro like Linux Mint or Ubuntu everything basically "just works", and you have much more freedom with how you setup your computer. Plus, while Apple is generally better about not bloaring their OS with bothersome corporate BS ("log into your Windows account! Sign up for OneDrive! AI in your email!") then Microsoft, they're not exactly perfect.

    • klardotsh  6 hours ago

      To each their own. The OS is easily one of the most frustrating I’ve ever been required to use. It does some things very well, but many things absolutely infuriatingly.

      Now, yes, almost everything about Apple’s hardware UX is a light year ahead of most competitors. That’s been true for ages.