Do you remember the most important characteristics you should look for in a good laptop? In the following order:
1️⃣ A high-resolution, high-density display — 3K or 4K, far beyond HD or Full HD
2️⃣ A battery that lasts all day
3️⃣ Fast storage (SSD)
4️⃣ Light, thin, and elegant
⛔️ It’s not the CPU.
⛔️ It’s not AI.
⛔️ It’s not having huge storage capacity.
⛔️ It’s not a large physical size.
⛔️ It’s not having more than 8 GB of memory (memory is not storage).
⛔️ It’s not having a stylus, turning into a tablet, or having a detachable or articulated keyboard.
⛔️ And it’s definitely not having a numeric keypad on the side.
Until last week, the best and most affordable laptop on the market with these characteristics was the $1100 MacBook Air. But now Apple has launched the MacBook Neo, which delivers all these qualities — display, battery, storage, lightness, and elegance — for 45% less: $600.
❝A laptop for me is just for browsing the internet, email, editing documents, messaging, watching movies, and relaxing with games like Solitaire or Roblox.❞
Congratulations — you’re like 99.999% of humanity. The MacBook Neo delivers the best value for you.
In the Windows laptop universe, these truly important characteristics (display quality, lightness, etc.) are usually found only in the most expensive product lines. To justify the high price, their marketing shifts the focus to things that are largely irrelevant: unnecessarily powerful CPUs, unnecessarily large storage, unnecessarily large memory, tablet modes, styluses, and so on.
All unnecessary for 99.999% of humanity.
And even in those expensive lines, the battery rarely lasts more than two hours (the reason: inefficient CPUs), let alone all day.
Don’t be misled when choosing your next laptop. Pay attention to the characteristics that really matter: display, battery, fast storage, lightness, and elegance.
This also applies to the laptops that companies give to their employees.