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1 HN user recommended this in 2026, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2026, in one comment.
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Of course you can. You can do real work on an $80 Amazon Fire. Yes, some things will be potentially impossible or frustrating but that's also true of the MacBook Neo, just a bit higher of a bar. A lot of this also depends on your definition of "real work".
$350 USD can get you a decent laptop with a SSD, 16GB RAM and something like an Intel N100 or N95. And they pretty comparable to a decent Intel Skylake CPU which are still pretty usable.
https://www.amazon.com/NIAKUN-Computer-Processor-Keyboard-Fi...
https://www.amazon.com/AOC-Computer-Processor-Laptops-Window...
Yes, the Neo has a faster CPU but it also has less RAM and less storage and costs more and has less ports. Besides ray traced games what can the Neo do that the others can't? They'll take longer but they'll get there.
And if you're willing to go used? That $350 goes a lot further.