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MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

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Post by dmos62 »

quietthrow wrote: post #183

Apple makes unbelievably good hardware and software that just lasts and just works. Until it’s 7 years old. After that you essentially have to chuck it as you don’t get any updates from Apple and slowly you descend into incompatibility unless you world exists in browser. I wish once you bought an Apple computer it was truly yours for as long as you wanted it instead of it being dictated by Apple. Still Great computer…

Fruit Construction Inc. makes great houses. Wish you could own them, but really great houses.

Re: MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

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Post by DANmode »

nicce wrote: post #203
jorisw wrote: post #185

> There’s also a silver lining to the tight memory envelope: Apple has to keep macOS running well within 8GB, which is actually a nice forcing function against bloat and inefficiency. We could all use a little more of that. Love this

Meanwhile GitHub tab in Firefox/Chrome eats 6GB RAM alone.

GitHub, GitHub…where else have I seen that name recently?

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Post by Oreb »

dlcarrier wrote: post #215
nwienert wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you decry bloated web apps and use Chrome on their Mac... there's Safari. It's far more efficient and has a far snappier UI.

There's also Epiphany web browser for cross-platform desktop support and the Fulguris browser for Android. It is noticeably faster, but Chrome is the new Internet Explorer in more ways than one, and many web pages don't work in WebKit browsers.

Posts like this makes me feel like I’m using a different World Wide Web than everybody else. Where are all these pages that don’t work in WebKit browsers?

I use Safari as my main browser, I open Chrome only when I encounter a web site that doesn’t work in Safari. It happens maybe once or twice per year, and half of the time, it turns out that it doesn’t work in Chrome either.

Re: MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble

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Post by mmoustafa »

codazoda wrote: post #17
briandw wrote: post #3

We just bought the Neo for our daughter to use at school. My biggest concern was the trackpad. This is the first MacBook to not use a force touch trackpad since they were introduced. I must say that the new trackpad is really good. It's not quite as good as the force touch one in my MacBook Pro, but it's close. We will see how well the Neo holds up over time, but it's off to a good start.

I never use the physical touch on the MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. It’s one of the first things I configure so that a light tap is a click. It somehow feels “faster” to me.

how do you select text?

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Post by iknowstuff »

revengerwizard wrote: post #227

Was it really necessary to cut out Magsafe? I feel like I end up stumbling on the charging cable at least one or two times. Plus, I wouldn't be able to re-use the old Macbook charger I have :(

Just buy a magnetic usb-c cable if it’s very important to you

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Post by yokoprime »

lynguist wrote: post #204

Seriously what is this ugly engagement optimized LLM slop of an article doing here yet again on the HN front page? I love the Neo as much as any other enthusiast, so yes, the subject matter is subjectively “cool”. But this “article” is indigestible. Not only it regurgitates the same thing over and over (and it has links to other articles on the same page where they already did the same), on top of that the writing st…

The author appears to have done actual measurements and put in the work. I agree that the article probably has been run through an LLM, but as long as there's actual new (for me!) information, i don't really care

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Post by majorbugger »

Fannon wrote: post #162

While I got me a 16GB Macbook Air, I appreciate that Apple continues to make 8GB devices. This indicates for me also a commitment for not bloating up the OS (like Windows did) too much and caring about memory efficiency.

I don't understand this logic. You can live with 8 GB but there is nothing to "appreciate". It's enough for some stuff but totally short for other stuff.
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