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I believe the MacBook Neo was a real wake-up call for management. Apple dominates the high-budget market. Now that Apple has entered the low-budget market, it could threaten their market share, as well as Copilot's.
I agree. They’re getting attacked on three fronts - Linux for the gaming user base and now macOS for the student, education and casual user base; and all the while, the professionals and creatives get tempted by Apple hardware increasingly running faster, cooler and more energy efficient than anything in the Intel/AMD world. It’s Microsoft’s game to lose and boy they sure seem to want to lose it.
I would never have believed it a few years back, but a world where Linux and Mac collectively have a higher market share than Windows could actually be possible. It’s the perfect storm of M-series chips kicking ass, Valve investing so much in Linux, and Microsoft giving the finger to their customers.
And m$$ demanding user hardware that's flat out unavailable because chipset cash machine go brrrrrrr
Low... lol
Sub 500 dollar laptops are low budget for new hardware.
Imo $500-700 is squarely midrange when it comes to laptops, the low end is populated with the e-waste that is shitty $200-300 HP laptops
If you can find a mid range in that price range your living in bullshit land of nonsense and rainbow unicorn farts.
The ai bubble has ass fucked laptop pricing.
Even the second hand market is fucked.
Most 500-700 dollar laptops are the ewaste crap now. Anything below that price point is out of date Chromebooks at best.
I can't agree that there are none, there are just few. If I was in the market for a midrange laptop at the moment I would probably go with this idea pad which should be good for the basics and should be able to do productivity tasks, albeit slowly: definetly not what I would call e-waste
They start at $730 where I live, there are way better alternatives for less.