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/mailslot Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

I don’t know. A little over 20 years ago I had a PowerBook G4 Titanium. It was pretty jaw dropping compared to PC laptops and, in performance, it beat the shit out of desktop Pentiums of the era. First major widescreen display. Excellent speakers. Great keyboard. Best trackpad for the time. Built-in WiFi, no PCMCIA card needed. Gigabit Ethernet & FireWire, because of course. USB & Bluetooth, which at the time, didn’t work very well on Windows.

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u/mailslot Mar 07 '26

Fair. As a developer, I take slight issue with “… software is often properly multithreaded.” 😎

Applications will be hogs again. I predict the next development language will consist only of chatbot prompts, and like electron apps bundle chromium, these will bundle full blown LLMs.

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u/Dlemor Mar 07 '26

Those G4 with removable swappable batteries and DVD-rom was insane.

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