John Siracusa

That's the only thing I can really fault these things on.

And obviously, the limitations inherent in the A18 Pro, which I'm not going to say is an Apple's fault because they made this computer, but it's not Apple making poor decisions about what to put into a product.

It's Apple of the past not having the foresight to realize they needed a chip to go into a low end.

laptop right but that it is what it is so be aware that some of the limitations of this are are to blame on the a18 pro and there's nothing apple could really do about it short of not short of not rolling out this computer until it has an a19 or a20 or something with fewer limitations but i think this is pretty good but i don't know what do you guys think

like yeah that's hard to justify i think that i do wonder why those cost so much maybe it's like low volumes or whatever but yeah that doesn't have a lot of computing power in the keyboard and it's just a plastic and then it's not even like they're super durable because at various times the ipad keyboards have like fallen apart after several years so that's a tough product

So here's here's the real comparison to think about this, because Apple is rolling out this line of low cost laptops and fun colors.

They're trying to go down market.

We can we feel like we can feel the laptop at a lower price that is still a good product.

And here it is.

It's called the Neo.

What about the Neo versus the Walmart M1 MacBook Air, which they have been selling for many years now?

It's the MacBook Air.

They've sold through Walmart for $650.

And it's just the M1 MacBook Air as it existed.

They just, you know, they gave it to Walmart to sell when they stopped sort of selling it themselves.

Here are some comparisons.

Here are the ways in which the Neo is better than the M1 MacBook Air.

It is 30% faster in single-core and about the same in multi-core and GPU.

It has a 100-nit brighter screen.

It has one hour better battery life.