Apple just announced its $599 MacBook Neo, which I was eagerly waiting to see if it might shake up the ~$600 Windows laptop market any more than Qualcomm's Snapdragon X processors did. I've always found that pricing was the biggest roadblock to trying macOS, and it's the primary reason why I never built much of an opinion of its operating system.
iPad and iPhone variants have appeared several times in my life, and I can appreciate what Apple can achieve when it refines its best hardware as close to perfection as possible. Still, I've never picked up any model of MacBook, iMac, or even the far more reasonable Mac mini like one of my colleagues, because the prices never seem to match the specs — that much seemingly hasn't changed.
