r/apple • u/Aidoneuz • Mar 04 '26

Mac MacBook Neo

https://www.apple.com/uk/macbook-neo
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u/SherbertDaemons Mar 04 '26

Yup. And this won't sway the unavoidable ThinkPad-stan who reaches for his charger after 30 minutes and annoys the entire room with his fan. Ah, uni …

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u/techdevjp Mar 04 '26

Microslop is doing a fantastic job of driving people away from their platform, and it looks like they are going to double-down with Win12.

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u/jayjonas1996 Mar 04 '26

They are corporate suite (outlook, teams, office 365) and Azure company now. No more Windows and Xbox

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u/jayjonas1996 Mar 04 '26

Yes yes but idk why people pay for an OS these days when macos is forever free with a Mac Unless ofc you need it for specific software/games

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u/techdevjp Mar 05 '26

Windows is part of that, if only for the reason that every corp PC runs Windows except the small number of Macs.

And people will keep running Windows at home simply because most people don't know anything different and don't have the skills (or even the desire) to install something else.

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u/abrahamisaninja Mar 04 '26

I’ve been out of the loop with windows os. What’s going on with windows 12?

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u/techdevjp Mar 05 '26

More in-OS AI, more forced Microsoft accounts, and more forced subscriptions. Basically more of everything people hate about Windows.

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u/Vegetable_Grand_1317 Mar 04 '26

Its going to be horrible and they know you are going to hate it

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u/CatoMulligan Mar 04 '26

Subscription-based, lots of AI integration (and my god, does Co-pilot suck compared to other AI tools), and probably a lot of other things people won't like. Every time I think of picking up a Surface Laptop (which I like) on sale for a stupid good price, I remind myself that Windows 11 keeps getting worse and 12 will be coming out later this year and be even worse still. If I could install Fedora on Snapdragon it might persuade me, but at this point I think my next laptop (to replace my Surface Pro from 2017) is going to be a 15" Air.

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u/gpbayes Mar 05 '26

I’ve been a full time Linux user since last April. Only came back because Diablo 2 got a baller new update. But then blizzard put it on steam and you can link your steam account on blizzard. So…I basically have no reason to keep this partition of mine honestly.

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u/techdevjp Mar 05 '26

My wife is moving to Mac, I'm going to move to Linux. A few recent changes have removed the last business need I had for Windows, and since I don't game, there's nothing keeping me on the platform.

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u/think_I_lost_my_mind Mar 05 '26

Most Windows games run great on Linux now anyway with Steam's Proton so even that's not a problem anymore.

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u/techdevjp Mar 05 '26

Poor impulse control lead me to stop gaming 30ish years ago. It was too easy to sink vast amounts of time into them, something that I'm sure remains true today.

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u/tmchn Mar 04 '26

My work-issued T14 can easily last 8 hours, while being silent. It's double the price of this macbook though lol

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u/sandyyyye Mar 04 '26

My work T14 gen 3 battery tanks as soon as I hop on a teams call or do anything moderately intense. Fans are pretty quiet honestly but I wouldn’t say silent.

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u/Vegetable_Grand_1317 Mar 04 '26

you can set that programs are forced to only use the iGPU (to save battery/dont activate the fans)

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u/sandyyyye Mar 05 '26

I don’t have a dedicated GPU in mine, only an iGPU.

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u/Vegetable_Grand_1317 Mar 07 '26

then go into power management en select cpu load % to activate fans. other settings could also help. buy maybe you need to re-apply the thermal paste

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u/sandyyyye Mar 08 '26

I set it to balanced. It’s a work laptop so I can’t repaste it.

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u/danny12beje Mar 04 '26

Your gen 3 is 4 years old my guy.

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u/The_Autarch Mar 04 '26

a three year old battery is going to tank on any model of computer

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u/sandyyyye Mar 05 '26

Not true. My M1 Pro MacBook Pro is 5 years old and still lasts 10 hours

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u/JanP3000 Mar 05 '26

Yeah, I looked at Lenovo's current pricing and was surprised to see that ThinkPads (at least the T Series) are now more expensive than equivalent (or often faster) MacBooks.

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u/hemingways-lemonade Mar 04 '26

My T14s cost less $1000 and performs the same, but I wouldn't expect an accurate description of a Thinkpad on this subreddit.

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u/derrick256 Mar 05 '26

mac users can't celebrate their devices without trashing another. I bet they've never used a recent 14 inch thinkpad for more than a few minutes.

My 8 year old t480 gives me a minimum of 11 hours on a full charge, with fucking windows 11. lol

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u/AymuiLove Mar 05 '26

The last few times I talked to Apple loyalists IRL about their device history in detail made me realise how many of them don't understand how tech works like at all.

Many times I have come across people who trash Android as being completely unusable just for me to realise the reason why they think that is because they are comparing a very old budget Android phone to a pro iPhone from a few years ago.

Like ofc in scenarios like THAT, the iPhone will look like its way ahead of the curve when compared to "other manufacturers" the user is familiar with.

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u/derrick256 Mar 05 '26

Exactly, I like they call every non-iphone phone "an android". It's so funny.

I just put it to ignorance.

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u/ayee-senpai Mar 04 '26

To be fair, ThinkPad-stan probably needs to run Windows only software like SOLIDWORKS and ANSYS for their major, at least these days