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The MacBook Neo’s education price of $499

It blows my mind that a Pi is a significant portion of the cost of it.

And the Pi doesn't even come with a monitor, keyboard, speakers, or power supply!

I’d bet a lot that the Neo has a better SSD in it too.

Having a SSD certainly is better than no SSD.

The Pi isnt a loss leader for user acquisition nor do they get to enjoy Apples economy of scale. Apple can take a small loss on this and it will still be worth it if they retain the users in their ecosystem.

Is there any evidence that’s the case? They always had massively bigger margins than all other PC manufacturers so it’s unlikely they are selling it at a loss even if’s significantly reduced

I mean, it's Apple we're talking about. Selling at margins <50% can probably be considered "at a loss"

Does this comment make this page NSFW on Marginalia?

I had several sent to these local parts as well.


I got 201 activation emails in 98 minutes.


I believe Apple’s iCloud+ option is $0.99/month.


You can do that at least for CLI apps with OrbStack. Not sure if it has X or Wayland support.


micro?


You literally, and I mean literally read my mind dear random stranger down to the wording. Micro is definitely underrated.

Micro is a truly goated software. I mean, it can genuinely replace vscode for small scale editing in the context of shopify that the parent comment was referring to.

https://micro-editor.github.io/

It also helped me in physics when I had to remember the units like 10^-6 being micro, 10^-9 being nano etc. and the funny thing is that I used to remember it in the start by seeing I am not sure if it was on micro's github or something but it was a comment on how micro has more features than nano and thus it's name.

So like for some time I definitely felt like I was thinking of micro software, then nano and making the feature comparison to find micro to be larger than nano.

Might seem kinda niche but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MICRO. Its the one software that I install everywhere, even on my android phone by using UserLand[1] with alpine linux.

I tried writing python code on my phone and it was definitely pleasant thanks to micro.

[1]:https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd




You could call it Elegant Variation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_variation


In the case where it's rather forced, you could call it Inelegant Variation instead.


Exactly that, thank you!


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