Alright, we got a MacBook Neo in at work and after playing with it for a bit I have come to the conclusion that it’s fine.
The built quality, keyboard, trackpad, and screen are all good, and when compared against a lot of the options in that price range they are downright fantastic.
Is it as good as a MacBook Air? No, the Air is slightly better across the board and if you care about the specifications of your device at all that’s probably a better choice for you. Is it as good as a MacBook Pro? Again, no, the Pro’s have active cooling, better performance, better screens, and nicer keyboards.
It’s fast enough to handle basic office stuff, basic media consumption, and it’s cheap.
And it should terrify the folks who churn out cheap crap laptops.
In the long term I hope that this thing is going to raise the bar for what those vendors are churning out. Hopefully we can get the plastic e-waste out of the way and start seeing devices that will live for more than a year before folding up and wining up in a landfill.