Slashdot has had a long running hatred of Microsoft products in general. I'd imagine that anything that helps loosen their grip on the sub $1,000 laptop OS monopoly would be cheered around here.

I don't think that Honda ever wanted to build those EV's in the US, but was probably required to by the prior administration to at least attempt to meet the EPA's alternative fuel and fleet fuel mileage requirements. Now that those regulations are gone for at least the next 2 1/2 years or so, there really isn't any pressure to build these vehicles.

I don't think that Google really had any real interest in becoming a major ISP. It just wanted to shame the telcos and cable companies who were offering 20Mbps "broadband" service at the time with a gigabit service option in order to force them to upgrade their offerings to meet international standards.

I'm not sure if I would use the terms "8 GB of total memory" and "highly capable" in the same sentence.

Sure, it will run a web browser or an e-mail client just fine. But if you try to develop on it, edit videos, or even play a 3D game you're going to regret your purchase decision quickly.

Use it what it's designed for (basically a glorified Chromebook or an entry level note taking laptop) and you'll be fine. Just remember that it's for content consumption, not content creation.

Alas, I've seen Firefox use up 12 GB of RAM on it's own with just 7 or 8 browser tabs open.

Now, that's not really Firefox's fault, but it does show that some web apps out there are incredibly bloated.

The Neo does have one USB 3 USB-C port and the upgraded 512 GB SSD model has a touch ID sensor, but everything else that you stated is correct.

I think that the non upgradable 8 GB of memory is the deal breaker here for most people thinking of switching from a PC. It ensures that this thing will be obsolete 3 or 4 years from now when Apple releases a new Mac OS version that "recommends" at least 12 GB of memory.

Sure, but doesn't EA like to pump out a new Battlefield game every two years like clockwork?

Or, are they going with the Fortnite model where they keep doing quarterly mission packs to an existing game over and over again?

The question could be rephrased as "What Clickbait headline can we use give this Verge article more attention?"

Linus Sebastian is the kind of person who will probably never migrate to Linux. He's a business owner now, so there is always going be that one stupid "Enterprise" business application that he'll need to use that isn't supported on Linux.

Plus, he seems to get really whiny when he runs into trivial technical issues. You really need to be willing to make adjustments to your workflow for a Linux migration to be successful, and he's the kind of person who would rather complain about a limitation instead of finding a way to work around it.

Yeah... it doesn't say much for Amazon's Well Architected Framework that says that your data should be safe and you should have little or no downtime if it's set up in multiple availability zones.

Apparently what they REALLY meant is that you're OK if just one AZ goes down. If 2 of the 3 AZ's go down, you're screwed.

Hell, I'd do it for $500. It doesn't really matter at this point, anyway. Here in 2026, you have to assume that everything is either AI generated slop, or bullshit generated to create engagement bait.

Oh, I'm sure that they'll pay "market" prices for their electricity... minus their bulk discount, of course.

We'll just ignore the fact that they're doubling the demand for electricity in the area and causing the market prices to adjust accordingly. And if anyone complains about the price increases, we'll just blame it on electric vehicles. Boomers already hate those for some reason.

I'd be more worried about the non-upgradable 8 GB of RAM. You can burn up that much memory nowadays just by opening Firefox with a couple of browser tabs and a basic Mac application like Notes.

I can also see some high school kids getting this laptop and then getting annoyed that they can't play a quick Fortnite match between assignments.

The "free" iCloud backup only comes with 5GB of storage, which is even less than Google and Microsoft offer.

If you have an iPhone and use the camera at all, you'll use up that storage and need an upgrade in less than a year. Maybe it would last a longer if you had just a Macbook, but the iPhone integration is one of the big selling points of this device.

From prior personal experience, I'd imagine that a good 20% of the "updates" are just new ways to break YouTube ad blocking.

Which is why I use Firefox now. Their priority seems to be user privacy, Google's is improving quarterly ad revenue.