John Siracusa

It even made my girlfriend switch to the Mac.

She actually wanted a PC laptop, but there was no comparison.

Either PC laptops were big and freaking ugly, or they were nice and small, but completely unaffordable, like the Sony Vios.

So switching to the Mac was an economical decision, and that was unheard of.

I'd even go so far as to say that the white iBook, it was the most affordable Mac ever until the launch of the Neo.

There have been at least a couple of teardowns.

I think we've talked about one or two of them, but there was a new one done by the Framework company, the founder, Nirav Patel.

He and a coworker did a MacBook Neo teardown, and they compared the MacBook Neo to their own Framework Laptop 12.

Nirav came up with a bunch of tidbits.

I also came up with one.

Let me start with mine.

The framework laptop does not do inverted T arrow keys, which is gross.

It's the ones that Apple was using for a while where the up and down are the same height as the left and right, like the combination of up and down are the same height as left and right.

I hated that.

I don't like it.

Oh, the ones where they were all in a line?

All right.

And then for his, uh, notes, complaints, et cetera, uh, he complained and I agree by the way about the maximum hinge angle of the Neo.

This drove me nuts.

When I first originally got my poly book that the compared to almost any PC that I'd ever used Dell IBM, it didn't matter a laptop specifically.