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Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by dwedge »

Aurornis wrote: post #41
bfrog wrote: post #13

Funnily it probably runs Windows better than the typical corporate spyware burdened x86 laptop.

Every thread about Windows on Hacker News includes claims about apps taking 30 seconds to launch, web pages taking 20 seconds to load, simple applications being unusable, and other extreme performance problems. These are puzzling for anyone (like me) who uses Windows at home without all of these extreme performance problems. That was until I realized how many reports are coming from people talking about their work la…

A bank I worked at had one so bad that at 9am when everyone was logging in or forcing updates it could take 15 minutes to be usable. And every couple of weeks they'd force update just to change everyone's lock screen to something like "I support pride month"

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by sourcegrift »

porphyra wrote: post #156
nextos wrote: post #152

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In the US, cheap ThinkPads like E14 sometimes sell for a bit less when you factor in all typical discounts. They are good machines that run Linux well and can be repaired. In EU, and I imagine other markets, there's nothing remotely close. I hope this puts some pressure on Lenovo and the rest of manufacturers to be more competitive.

> and can be repaired The Macbook Neo is highly repairable too [1]. Not _quite_ as repairable as some Thinkpads with a 10/10 score, but still pretty respectable at a 6/10 with easily replaceable batteries and stuff. [1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...

8 GB RAM and 6/10 "respectable" repairability.

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by nar001 »

sourcegrift wrote: post #172
porphyra wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and can be repaired The Macbook Neo is highly repairable too [1]. Not _quite_ as repairable as some Thinkpads with a 10/10 score, but still pretty respectable at a 6/10 with easily replaceable batteries and stuff. [1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-r...

8 GB RAM and 6/10 "respectable" repairability.

RAM has no bearing on repairability? And yes, sure stuff is soldered to the motherboard, but everything is basically modular outside of it, you can replace every big part pretty easily, and no glue, even for the battery

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by ActorNightly »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #142
ActorNightly wrote: post #138

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ITs going to sell like crazy not because of specs, but because its apple, and its a cheap. Cause god forbid you pull out a chromebook in a starbucks and be seen as a peasant. If you know what you are doing and don't want to spend a lot of money, its really not that hard to buy a refurbished thinkpad, swap in more ram, and install your linux disro of choice, for a lower price and get very similar usable performance.

And run what on the Chromebook exactly?

Web browser and youtube. You know, what people mostly do on macbooks.

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by kstrauser »

sroussey wrote: post #162
dragonwriter wrote: post #144

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> Most people run Windows just fine on cheap laptops with 4GB of RAM. And if they can do that, they can get them (at full MSRP) for about half the price of a MacBook Neo. Heck, you can get 8GB Windows laptops with twice the SSD size of the MacBook Neo's for a little over half of the Neo’s price (again, at full MSRP.)

I went looking, and did find stuff on Amazon, though none were made of an aluminum chasis, and none had the geekbench score anywhere near, and none had the screen brightness.

As I write this, the top Amazon search for "windows laptop" is a

> Lenovo IdeaPad 15.6 inch Business Laptop with Microsoft 365 • 2026 Edition • Intel Core • Wi-Fi 6 • 1.1TB Storage (1TB OneDrive + 128GB SSD) • Windows 11

The person who approved describing its 128GB storage as 1.1TB should be hanged.

The CPU also has[0] 31% of the single core and 14% of the CPU Mark rating. The screen has 220 nits (vs 500) brightness, comes with 4GB of RAM, and weighs 30% more. At least it's half price, though.

The shopping situation for Windows laptops is utterly dire.

[0]https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6268vs4227/Apple-A18-Pr...

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

ActorNightly wrote: post #175
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And run what on the Chromebook exactly?

Web browser and youtube. You know, what people mostly do on macbooks.

But that’s all you can do on Chromebooks.

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by MBCook »

SpecialistK wrote: post #151
MBCook wrote: post #126

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The M line was derived from the A line in the phones, and the individual cores are generally the same (though not in the same year). Counts, accelerators, other stuff on package/die is custom. I think it was a fair question too. Even if things should be capable it was always possible the feature would be disabled in hardware or software somehow. And with iPhones never running VMs as far as I know, we didn’t know if i…

UTM seems to make VMs available on iOS (with App Store limitations) although I've only used it on Mac: https://docs.getutm.app/

I thought it was emulating everything like QEMU, not using virtualization hardware like you normally would on a computer.

Re: Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine

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Post by ActorNightly »

mountainriver wrote: post #163
ActorNightly wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ITs going to sell like crazy not because of specs, but because its apple, and its a cheap. Cause god forbid you pull out a chromebook in a starbucks and be seen as a peasant. If you know what you are doing and don't want to spend a lot of money, its really not that hard to buy a refurbished thinkpad, swap in more ram, and install your linux disro of choice, for a lower price and get very similar usable performance.

MacBooks are a far superior product, not just a status symbol

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