Apple shipped 1.1 million MacBook Neo units in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC, making it one of the strongest Mac debut performances in recent memory (via TechCrunch). The figure is particularly striking given that the laptop was only available for roughly three weeks of the period, having gone on sale in mid-March. Shipments began spiking from early April, suggesting the March tally understates underlying demand.
Me. I’m a scientist and need access to my tools wherever I am. I often move between two labs and keeping all my work with me is essential.
At home, I sync the data to my desktop, and work from there.
As per Mac Neo specifically, I believe students massively benefit from it. For starters, it’s likely their primary computer, as you wouldn’t normally carry an entire desktop PC to the dormitory (assuming you move to study somewhere). Then, a laptop is very useful during studies - making lecture notes, corrections, checking additional info, using computational software for advanced math, completing digital assignments, etc.
I never had a laptop through the entirety of my four year degree and the thought of lugging one around to every lecture just seems baffling to me. If I had someone sat next to me clacking away at a keyboard during a lecture I’d be pissed off.
Me too, I went through my bachelors with nothing but pen and paper. Yet, when I had a laptop during my masters, it helped a lot, not least because we were working with some software, and I’d rather have my machine for that. For postgraduate studies, a laptop is straight up a must, as it’s used pretty much everywhere for everything.
Also, modern laptops typically have their keyboards on a quieter side.
Me. I’m a scientist and need access to my tools wherever I am. I often move between two labs and keeping all my work with me is essential.
At home, I sync the data to my desktop, and work from there.
As per Mac Neo specifically, I believe students massively benefit from it. For starters, it’s likely their primary computer, as you wouldn’t normally carry an entire desktop PC to the dormitory (assuming you move to study somewhere). Then, a laptop is very useful during studies - making lecture notes, corrections, checking additional info, using computational software for advanced math, completing digital assignments, etc.
I never had a laptop through the entirety of my four year degree and the thought of lugging one around to every lecture just seems baffling to me. If I had someone sat next to me clacking away at a keyboard during a lecture I’d be pissed off.
Me too, I went through my bachelors with nothing but pen and paper. Yet, when I had a laptop during my masters, it helped a lot, not least because we were working with some software, and I’d rather have my machine for that. For postgraduate studies, a laptop is straight up a must, as it’s used pretty much everywhere for everything.
Also, modern laptops typically have their keyboards on a quieter side.