The Apple MacBook Neo’s $599 starting price is a “shock” to the Windows PC industry, according to an Asus executive.
Hsu said he believes all the PC players—including Microsoft, Intel, and AMD—take the MacBook Neo threat seriously. “In fact, in the entire PC ecosystem, there have been a lot of discussions about how to compete with this product,” he added, given that rumors about the MacBook Neo have been making the rounds for at least a year.
Despite the competitive threat, Hsu argued that the MacBook Neo could have limited appeal. He pointed to the laptop’s 8GB of “unified memory,” or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can’t upgrade it.
Prediction - eWaste in less than 2 years. It will only live through 1, maybe 2 OS updates.
There’s lots to criticize Apple for but they do support their hardware for several years, not one or two.
As someone who had an iPod Touch and a Gen 1 iPad ganked by OS updates, I have serious doubts about that.
One man’s e-waste is another’s Linux homelab.
We will optimistically be just climbing out of the ram shortage in that period, so I doubt this.