andrewcastmate (u/andrewcastmate)

andrewcastmate commented on MacBook Neo apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/dm

Getting strong original iMac vibes as well, with a similar market opportunity. The chromebook / education space is awful, and a well built (and stylish) competitor can do serious business.

andrewcastmate · 12 days ago

I was wondering if they were somewhat intentionally trying to harken back to those original iMacs and iBooks. The first thing I thought when I opened the page for these was that the colors were really giving me that vibe.

andrewcastmate commented on MacBook Neo apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/dm

NoLinkToMe · 12 days ago

They already have! It's essentially what you wished for.

Below respectively 11 inch MBA vs NEO in cm

  - Height: 1.7 vs 1.27 (thickest point)
  - Width: 30 vs 29.75
  - Depth: 19.2 vs 20.65
  - Weight: 1.08 vs 1.23

11 inch was thicker and wider, neo is longer and heavier. But more or less the same form factor.

But you get 1.4 inches extra in screen size due to slimmer bezels, double storage, double pixel density, double ram, almost double battery life and a LOT more CPU, for half the price (even before adjusting for inflation, leading to a further discount).

Only thing they didn't do was keep the taper model, but I think that's a smart move even if it made for a fantastic picture at the time.

andrewcastmate · 12 days ago

I'm a bit too lazy to look it up, but this is surprising to me. I still have an 11-inch, and it has a huge bezel around it, but it still feels way, way smaller than a 13-inch MacBook Air.

If the Neo has the same size screen as the MacBook Air, it's just a little confusing to me where it could be smaller.

andrewcastmate commented on iOS 6.0 Causes CDN Overages labs.prx.org/2012/11/14/i... · Posted by u/woodhull

andrewcastmate · 13 years ago

I don't have anything wildly new to add, but I'm part of a podcast hosting site (http://Castmate.fm) and we've seen this bigtime, it's crazy.

We host some high-traffic podcasts with a huge range of listeners, and I've gone through the logs and regularily see stuff like NUMEROUS listeners making 4000+ http requests in 30 minutes, all the 206 calls everyone here is reporting, it's just nuts, so bizarre.

I feel terrible for all the people getting hit with overages, it's so gross. I did some gorilla math the other day and feel pretty confident that this has boosted our network usage by ~25%, I should have narrowed it down to just the affected iOS 6.0 devices, must be astronomical.