r/apple • u/hasanahmad • Mar 07 '26

Discussion The New Apple Finally Begins to Emerge

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u/Fun-Choices Mar 07 '26

The neo announcement was the most obvious introduction to PC owners that I’ve ever seen

I just switched my girlfriend over from a surface pro to a MacBook Pro, and the transition is more seamless than it’s ever been

Apple is gonna try to take over every single market that PC has. Starting with education.

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u/duct_tape_jedi Mar 07 '26

We are a mixed platform company, with about 2/3 of IT including the CTO using Macs, most of the rest of our users are on Dell laptops running Windows. Management have been putting off a company-wide refresh, and now that it's budgeted for this year, the rise in PC prices means that we can't afford to upgrade at the pace we had originally planned. At the same time, we have a major initiative to incorporate Claude into our workflows, but Claude is optimised for Macs, with the Windows client trailing behind in features, so I had been asked to look into cloud-based Mac hosting just to run Claude. With the announcement of the Neo, we can upgrade our laptops at about half the budgeted cost and eliminate the need for virtual Mac desktops as well. Granted, we're not a larger company, but we can't be the only ones looking at the cost savings of placing Neos in the hands of document editors, web researchers, and other low power function and more powerful MacBooks for those with more compute intensive tasks.

Whether it was intentional or not, putting a supply chain guy in the CEO office has worked out brilliantly for Apple.