The common narrative around device design is that you can have repairability or a low price, but that they are inversely proportional to each other. Apple’s new budget MacBook Neo seems to attempt a bit of both.
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The strongest version of this narrative highlights Apple’s incremental but meaningful progress toward repairability, acknowledging external pressures like EU regulations and grassroots advocacy as key drivers. It also contrasts Apple’s approach with industry leaders like Lenovo, framing the Neo as a step forward while critiquing the company’s broader ecosystem control—such as its avoidance of Vulkan and x86 gaming. The discussion reflects a tension between corporate priorities (e.g., Metal over ...