Marco Arment

It's really interesting.

Obviously, Framework's whole deal is their stuff is very serviceable and has lots of swappable parts, and you can upgrade the memory and change these little modules that you plug into it.

It's totally going in different design directions.

It's also more expensive than the Neo, by the way.

But check out this teardown if you want to see.

Obviously, it's done by the founder of Framework, so they're a little bit biased towards Framework, but it is really interesting to see a different way to do a similarly sized and similarly priced laptop.

I don't think they're in conflict because one is in a school where they already have MacBooks for everybody.

And I think Henry's point stands, which is like, I'm not sure how well the Neo would do given the criteria that he is touting for the Chromebook.

So the first example is, say you forgot your laptop or something or you need another one.

You just go to the library and pick one up.

Chromebook that's more of like an OS platform thing because you just sign into the Chromebook with your Google ID and all your stuff is there because all your stuff is never there it's in the cloud that pulling that off like I don't think if you forgot your your MacBook Neo went to library even if they handed you a new one

Could you have it up and running to the point where you could use it for something in time for your class, given how long it would take for the Mac to do its whatever network boot setup, home directory configuration, blah, blah, blah.

You know what I mean?

Like having all your stuff there.

I'm not sure how people configure MacBooks in school systems, but if it's a one-to-one type thing, I have to imagine there's more local stuff online.

Or even if there's not any local stuff.

But you got to log in, right?

Do they all log in as like a school account?

Right, but is it individual school Google?

I'm saying you've got to type something in the login prompt.