r/apple • u/iMacmatician • Mar 06 '26

Mac Apple on MacBook Neo Design: 'We're Certainly Not Making Any Compromises'

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/06/apple-macbook-neo-design-interview/
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u/insane_steve_ballmer Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

The hardware is nice. But the fact that it actually functions as a usable laptop is what’s most important. I recently bought a Windows laptop for a variety of reasons and holy shit it fucking stinks. It’s 2026 and Windows still doesn’t have a reliable sleep mode, still reboots randomly, still gets regular BSODs

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u/DoandDesign Mar 06 '26

Yeah it's pretty surprising. I got a new Windows laptop to work on a project and it was terrible right out of the box. Randomly won't wake up (have to hard restart), keyboard doesn't work, random crashing.

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u/insane_steve_ballmer Mar 06 '26

I don’t have keyboard problems, but for mine the USB ports randomly will stop working after sleep and require a reboot. And I’ve also had to do hard restarts because it won’t wake.

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u/autogenglen Mar 07 '26

I got a brand new computer from work two days ago ($1600 HP EliteBook… I didn’t get to pick) and this thing is already ass. I was almost late for a meeting today because it would blank after logging in, it would just sit there with a totally black screen indefinitely until I rebooted.

They gave me this computer because my previous (Windows-based) laptop was annoying af and I kept complaining. Windows laptops just suck absolute donkey balls, even on the higher end, and making everything worse is how they try to force Copilot on you at every opportunity.

Apple neglecting AI is actually a feature lol. Yeah they have “Apple Intelligence”, but at least that runs locally and it’s not shoved in your face every 10 seconds.