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Marco Arment

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Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

They have clips on the left and right side, in the middle of the left and right side.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

I don't know why they just didn't put other screws there, but...

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Like I said, the the regardless of what they did to save money, the construction of it, when you pick it up in the hand, it still feels very solid, which which he acknowledged.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

So I think that's the main takeaway there.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

But they found a way to get money out of it without seemingly sacrificing much, except for maybe like fractions of a millimeter in the shut line between the bottom and the top of the case.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

It's amazing.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Like how you look at that as like, how could they both fit a laptop in the same case, given the massive difference in the size of logic board.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

It's really interesting.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

It's totally going in different design directions.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

But check out this teardown if you want to see.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

You just go to the library and pick one up.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

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