Comment by 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.
> 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.
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.
Thankfully I don't own any, I rather have computers with replaceable parts, more environment friendly, thus not something I need to worry about.
what computers are you buying that are more environmentally friendly? The MacBook Neo is 60% from recycled materials and Apple offers free recycling for all their products.
How do you recycle your old parts?
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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.
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.
Indeed nothing beats the Tahoe experience.
Yes, this should convince people who cannot afford to pay for Apple brand to buy it.
The post that I commented on was arguing that what sets the Mac apart from other options with 8 GB RAM, and what makes them more expensive, is that they are seen as a status symbol. I made a point against that mentioning two areas in which Macs are truly superior.
What exactly is your point?
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.
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.
Glowing logo for Starbucks dig? What year is it?
2026
"With 8GB". 8GB on Apple Silicon acts more like 16GB on a PC.
Depends on how many ChromeOS Platform apps you have running.