screen contrast is lower so much than m4 15 macbook air ,is a defective one or m5 just had bad panel, we need more example

Quote from: blalblaber on Yesterday at 17:46:40

Quote from: TheWerewolf on March 07, 2026, 23:09:04It's a laptop. A basic, simple, plain laptop. There's nothing special, or risky or innovative here. Even the price is unimaginative and high-middle price at best. Get over it already.

You have no slightest idea what you are talking about. Literally any other company would have a team of engineers to design a cheaper product that would be inferior in design. In every possible even smallest detail.

Apple is the exception. Apple promises that this is it.
Complete transparency. A18 Pro / 8 GB RAM, no backlit kb, entry model w/o fingerprint reader and w/ simple touchpad.
Otherwise, we will get the same <3 device.
Same CNC machining. Same metal quality. Same panel quality. Same keyboard. Same plastic quality. No software catch.

Looks like the paid apple fanboy bots are working overtime to push the macbook propaganda this week. You shills are FLOODING every Mac article on this site and not only sound like the same regurgitated nonsense people post on macrumors, but make itvso obvious its like 5vof the same people using different names and chatgpt ridden comments with the same grammar and comment style. Literally gen over yourselves apple has done NOTHING special and the neo is a poorly spec'd laptop for its price.

^ this

putting 24GB/1TB into a weak SoC doesn't translate into a better buy. In fact, it's the literal "solution" that has been plaguing entry-level budget laptops.

back then, in that price bracket, you get trash display and build quality laptop but latest CPU, kinda expandable memory and replaceable drives (if lucky, you can even found 1xM2 along with SATA). these days, you got even worse disadvantage, namely fully soldered memory using 4-5 years old CPU that has significant performance difference and efficiency.

MacBook Neo isn't stellar by any means, but it gives a decent option in the mids of zen2/zen3 and Tiger/Alder/Twin Lake laptops. The next question is will Windows OEM cut down their high margins on low end notebooks or at least produce a decent budget laptop? I've seen OEMs now outsourcing lower end notebooks to India and even the BIOS works differently.