2026-03-22 13:06 UTC
@mjdxp
I heard that the Windows 7 Starter thing was some Microsoft licensing bollocks. (arbitrarily raising the OEM license prices on anything with "proper" Windows and a core2/i7 or something like that)
On a related note, I wonder if the Macbook Neo will prompt the Dells and ASUSes into making cheap Windows laptops around literal telephone CPUs.
(ideally we'd all be packing smartphones with integrated physical keyboards, but I guess the vendors decided that such a device would make the plebs too powerful or something)
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@moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org 2026-03-22 13:11
@mjdxp all I know is that "Windows 8.1 with Bing" was a real thing that could absolutely hurt you. (MS giving Windows away for free, if it defaulted to their unwanted search engine) (probably trivial to work around, but still heralded their move towards a "users are the real product" business model)
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone 2026-03-22 14:33
@moses_izumi i mean, the macbook neo is targeted towards education, and everyone already has their own line of chromebooks which basically use phone CPUs (since most of them are ARM)