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by aggregator-ios 35 days ago
Branding is way off. Marketed as an AI laptop sounds like local inference to engineers, but no. The general public are weary of AI. The Neo is selling so well that Apple is running out of the A18 Pro chips. Rumors are that Apple may have 2 steps: mark as sold out, or upgrade to the latest iPhone SOC which comes with an upgrade to 12GB of RAM. I also suspect this is Ternus' first product launch as CEO (not officially until Sept 1).

Anyway, this will be fun to see price point, manufacturer differentiation (surprised that Google isn't building this themselves) and reviews. Hard to see how it competes with the Neo at $499 that can run a full Desktop OS and integrates well with the ecosystem.
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fooker 35 days ago
> The general public are weary of AI.

Have you interacted with the 'general public' in the last year or so?

Every non-technical person I know uses AI for 'fact checking' now, as well as 'doing the math' before deciding something, despite these two literally being the well known blind spots of modern AI. People have adopted AI suspiciously cleanly into their habits and workflows.

The only person I have seen being weary of AI recently is a labor activist, for good reason.

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functionmouse 35 days ago
I'm seeing a wary public where I'm at. Dunno what's up with your area.
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nunez 35 days ago
Most folks use AI and hate it
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andrekandre 34 days ago
just an additional "hate it but use it" anecdote:

i was using google docs the other day, and it suggested "must not be done" in place of "must be done" on a biz requirement doc via that red underline for a fixit... like, what is this...

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c0rruptbytes 34 days ago
hackernews will tell you the public hates AI and then OpenAI will report like a billion active users
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elxr 34 days ago
Who's hackernews? This is one of the most AI-optimist/AI-aligned websites on the internet.

My experience with the people around me are that most people love AI. When I go to coffee shops with people studying, I see people using chatGPT/claude web chat almost every time.

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aggregator-ios 35 days ago
A simple search for "neo" is now up to 32 results, up from 6 at the time of this comment :) Somewhere someone said why Neo when Googlebook would be 1/2 the cost, but I highly doubt its going to be $250. No official pricing has been released.
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fragmede 35 days ago
Between Crostini and Android, it's "full desktop os" that much of a differentiator? And as far as "works well with the ecosystem", the press release makes it sound like this will integrate well with an Android phone.
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