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by pjmlp 59 days ago
I have zero reasons to recomend paying 800 euros for a mobile SOC with 8 GB, and the Apple experience is pretty much hit and miss, it certainly isn't worthwhile the extra cost when one needs to top it up with Apple Care, and get lemons like buterfly keyboard, Tahoe and many other issues that get had waved because "It is Apple!".

Then you get the nerds that get Apple because "I know this, it is UNIX!", when in reality what they wanted was GNU/Linux, and then complain all the time it isn't, because they skipped the class where UNIX, POSIX and all differences throught history were explained.
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notepad0x90 58 days ago
mass market consumers don't even know what "SOC" is, and would pretty much disagree with the rest of your sentiment. I think I was clear on the context being for them, not tech enthusiasts like yourself.
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pjmlp 58 days ago
They will disagree when they find their phone powered experience to be sluggish, after a couple of Electron garbage powered apps are running, which they also don't care are making use of.
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commandersaki 58 days ago
Mate, it'd smoke the FW12 especially when it comes to energy efficiency and heat. Also FW12 has a fan.
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pjmlp 58 days ago
Hardly something that people check down at Media Markt.
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commandersaki 58 days ago
People considering the Neo aren't thinking they're being constrained by a mobile SoC when it performs just as well as M1 with a slightly reduced core count.

The fact that they're selling incredibly well is a testament to that.

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pjmlp 58 days ago
In US, where anything Apple sells, not so much in the rest of the world.

Actually I would like to see some numbers for how much they are flying off the shelves in countries where they are priced 700 - 800 euros.

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notepad0x90 58 days ago
There has been plenty of reviews and comparisons of the neo in this area, they disagree with your take. Comparing with similarly priced alternatives, it comes out on top. Every reviewer is trying hard to prove the neo sucks by comparison, it helps contrarian takes get better views.
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pjmlp 58 days ago
Most done by Apple influencers, or people gifted one for review....
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notepad0x90 57 days ago
do you have a review i can look at by non-apple influencers, or are they all working for apple?
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