Well, why can’t my 17 Pro run macOS apps when connecting it to an external screen etc?
MacBook Neo
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Re: MacBook Neo
#382This is a major challenge to Microsoft. A 13-inch Surface Laptop costs $899 [1], that's 50% more than an equivalent MacBook! And even at that higher price the Surface Laptop doesn't have a good screen: it uses 150% scaling (as opposed to the ideal 200%) which means you have subtle display artifacts. Other than Microsoft nobody even makes decent laptops in the Windows world. I am typing this on an Lenovo Yoga, it has…
The surface laptop is a competitor to the MacBook Air, the cheaper Surface Laptop Go was the low cost attempt from MS.
Also, there are plenty of good laptops from HP, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, and others, the market is not that dire.
Re: MacBook Neo
#383This is a major challenge to Microsoft. A 13-inch Surface Laptop costs $899 [1], that's 50% more than an equivalent MacBook! And even at that higher price the Surface Laptop doesn't have a good screen: it uses 150% scaling (as opposed to the ideal 200%) which means you have subtle display artifacts. Other than Microsoft nobody even makes decent laptops in the Windows world. I am typing this on an Lenovo Yoga, it has…
This is not primarily competing with the surface line of laptops, this is mostly competing with chromebooks which dominate schools. That's a completely different segment of devices.
It needs a touch screen for elementary schools kids. Fine for older kids.
Re: MacBook Neo
#384This is a major challenge to Microsoft. A 13-inch Surface Laptop costs $899 [1], that's 50% more than an equivalent MacBook! And even at that higher price the Surface Laptop doesn't have a good screen: it uses 150% scaling (as opposed to the ideal 200%) which means you have subtle display artifacts. Other than Microsoft nobody even makes decent laptops in the Windows world. I am typing this on an Lenovo Yoga, it has…
Some of the new HP laptops are pretty well designed and have reasonable prices.
Re: MacBook Neo
#385This is a major challenge to Microsoft. A 13-inch Surface Laptop costs $899 [1], that's 50% more than an equivalent MacBook! And even at that higher price the Surface Laptop doesn't have a good screen: it uses 150% scaling (as opposed to the ideal 200%) which means you have subtle display artifacts. Other than Microsoft nobody even makes decent laptops in the Windows world. I am typing this on an Lenovo Yoga, it has…
This is not primarily competing with the surface line of laptops, this is mostly competing with chromebooks which dominate schools. That's a completely different segment of devices.
I'm not sure that's true given that Chromebooks can be had for one third the price.
Re: MacBook Neo
#386This proves macOS should/could just be an iOS app that you can run when docked. It has great suspend and resume, the phones/tables would just need more ram and storage. Maybe we'll see it in the future
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#387If this makes people develop stuff under the assumption that the user only has 8 GB of memory, I am happy for where we are going :-)
People forget that macOS and even Windows (well, pre-11) excel at swapping. There are all sorts of hacks and tricks they do to make sure the system remains responsive when under severe memory pressure. This compared to Linux, where desktop environments seem to get noticeably bogged down and stressed out when swapping (the cursor starts stuttering and the shell becomes unresponsive). Although even KDE does OK on 4gb o…
That's only true for M Macs. Intel Macs with 8 GB of RAM perform pretty poorly.
Re: MacBook Neo
#388that's a wild price point for a mac, impressive
Re: MacBook Neo
#389How will the A chip fare for LLM-based use cases, compared the M series? And will we have software compatibility issues because of A versus M issues?
I don't think LLM use cases are the target audience's chief concern here
Re: MacBook Neo
#390If this makes people develop stuff under the assumption that the user only has 8 GB of memory, I am happy for where we are going :-)
I'm old enough to remember when 640k ought to be enough for anybody.