alt Hacker NewsThe price is fantastic but 8GB RAM feels like going backwards again, but oh well, ram shortage and beggars can't be chosers
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icedchai • yesterday at 3:00 PM
It seems fine for basic web browsing and office tasks: a youtube, facebook, or word doc machine. It's a "netbook" replacement, not for software development work.
That being said, it seems like a good living room laptop.
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pwthornton • yesterday at 2:41 PM
I do wonder if the plan was originally at least 12 GB, but the RAMageddon foiled that.
Although this is competing with PoS Chromebooks, which often don't have much ram (sometimes as low as 4 GB) and have slow CPUs.
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whizzter • yesterday at 2:40 PM
1: Education market 2: Avoiding cannibalizing their own products
Differentiation is king. If you have 25% of the market just doing e-mail, taxes, youtube and news, and 25% of the market running local LLMs, you don't want one machine that offers an average RAM, giving one group too much and making them overpay and the other group too little and making them underpay. Everyone gets a bad deal.
Instead you differentiate. This does that. Does the Neo cater to everyone? No. But it's better to put 8GB in a machine for your mom, than making her pay for 16gb she doesn't use and also creating more RAM scarcity for the people who need more RAM.