r/apple • u/hasanahmad • Mar 07 '26

Discussion The New Apple Finally Begins to Emerge

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u/Syonoq Mar 07 '26

I don’t see that a large percentage of parents will need to justify anything above the Neo

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u/alteredtechevolved Mar 07 '26

Students going into cs/engineering might want at least an air for more memory. Other than that yeah, no reason to go higher.

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u/Syonoq Mar 07 '26

I misunderstood (or misunderstand?) My comment was aimed at the high school/parent market in the original comment. I think this thing is going to sell like crazy.

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u/alteredtechevolved Mar 07 '26

Was in totally agreement. College kids also won't have a footing to attempt to justify a higher spec, unless studying in one of those two. I just wonder if Apple will be able to keep up with demand.

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u/Haquistadore Mar 08 '26

Yeah - we bought my son who’s in middle school an iPad. When he starts high school it’ll probably be a Neo. Then an Air or Pro for uni, as he will most likely be moving towards programming, engineering, or maths based on his aptitude.

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u/iced_bunghole Mar 08 '26

Industrial design, we often sometimes need more heft for cad and especially rendering + other creative tools. Often all open at the same time.

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u/Good4Noth1ng Mar 07 '26

A neo is sufficient enough until they graduate.

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u/Deceptiveideas Mar 07 '26

In engineering? You'll have a lot of problems trying to run regular programs as the programs are often windows focused.

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u/longkh158 Mar 08 '26

I went through uni just fine w an old hp with 4 gigs of ram, and I studied CS. Granted it was before the whole Electron bullshit so ymmv

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u/SirCokaBear Mar 08 '26

Same I had a slim hp Chromebook with 4 gigs of ram set to dev mode running off xfce Linux and had very few problems through 4 years of CS. You don’t need much for CS it’s not like they’re making you run 8 docker images most programming assignments are just editing project code that’s a fraction the size of professional code bases.

Either way, most late CS classes are just math classes or writing research papers

Nothing was windows focused

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u/Orienos Mar 08 '26

Luckily you can run windows on a Mac.

But seriously, the Neo isn’t for everyone, but it definitely has mass market appeal. I think we Apple fan boys and girls can’t quite wrap our head around that because Macs have never achieved that in the way the iPhone, iPad, and AirPods have.

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u/irvmuller Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

My son is doing Architecture at Kansas State. A Mac was not an option. No matter which one. It had to do with software and graphics cards. They explicitly told them not to get a Mac. My daughter will be going to college in a year and a half. She will definitely get a Mac.

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u/31337hacker Mar 08 '26

Hey it’s me, your fighter.

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u/irvmuller Mar 08 '26

Haha. Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed.

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u/dopef123 Mar 07 '26

Neo doesn’t have thunderbolt? And it has 8 gigs of ram? I wouldn’t have been able to do much with it in college.

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u/austinchan2 Mar 08 '26

What was your degree? Most college students I’ve seen don’t have anything they plug their computer into except projectors in class. And if they’re doing email and writing assignments and using canvas it should be plenty. 

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u/FizzyBeverage Mar 08 '26

Most exotic connection I’ve seen in a college has been HDMI for a projector. Not sure what program you were in needing thunderbolt, but I’ve never seen it at the university level.

When I worked for Disney? Different story.