MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production

Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by commandersaki on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:47PM (#48388980)

I think Apple's era of unreliable laptops were the ones with Butterfly keyboards. So many issues back then, but they did a complete 180 once they reintroduced the magic keyboard and then Apple Silicon.

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Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by raspasov on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @05:42PM (#48390538)

Apple Intel laptop + a butterfly keyboard was the absolute gutter tier experience. Not only it was slow and ran hot, but after a few months a random key would get stuck and stop working.

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Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by frollogaston on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:04PM (#48390758)

Also touch bar, also was all USB-C at a time when there was 0 adoption (2016). I went out of my way to buy a 2015 model instead, held up for 10 years.

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Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by wil421 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:21PM (#48402559)

I was gifted a Touch Bar and bought an M1 air when they came out. It was a night a day difference. Fan speed and throttling killed the experience and Touch Bar was not good.

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Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production by sgt on Thursday June 04, 2026 @05:21AM (#48396157)

I agree that sucked, and I fixed a few of them myself instead of sending to Apple. Got quite good at it.

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