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Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by nobleach »

NoLinkToMe wrote: post #136

Interesting that it's the same weight, less wide and less tall than the Air model, though it is a bit thicker. Seems like an amazing entry-level offer for kids and students. But to be honest for myself I also don't really much added value of an Air or Pro anymore. I think the memory of 8gb is the biggest limit for a device you want to use another 6-8 years, except for the most casual of users. Those who have multiple…

8GB of "unified" memory. That means it's also shared by the GPU. I realize these things aren't meant to be gaming rigs, or CAD workstations, but I do agree that this isn't very forward thinking.

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by itake »

r0fl wrote: post #6

"Education customers can purchase it for $499." That is insane pricing for a brand new apple product. They will sell so many of these!

call me crazy, but ignoring size, weight, and color, wouldn't $500 be better spent buying an m1 or m2?

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by oybng »

Given how incredibly bloated OSX is now and that everything else is CEF, how can they possibly justify 8gb of ram? Even my ancient w7 box has 64gb

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by jitl »

andy_ppp wrote: post #96

I imagine this will be popular in other countries too. Such an incredible product for the price. Does anyone have benchmarks comparing the A18 to an M1 say?

A18 is ahead of M1 single core, slightly behind in multi core on Geekbench

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16858435?baseli...

you’re essentially getting an m1 macbook air with a worse keyboard

a quality used m1 air on ebay is about $400 w 256gb storage https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=m1+macbook+air&_trksid=...

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by ultropolis »

I hope that Steve Jobs gets up and slaps whoever thought scaling the "Hello Neo" font to 150% width was ok, fires them, and then gets back in his grave grumbling that he would never have let this happen.

I have a degree in design, I paid good money to have bad type piss me off.

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by moolcool »

NoLinkToMe wrote: post #136

Interesting that it's the same weight, less wide and less tall than the Air model, though it is a bit thicker. Seems like an amazing entry-level offer for kids and students. But to be honest for myself I also don't really much added value of an Air or Pro anymore. I think the memory of 8gb is the biggest limit for a device you want to use another 6-8 years, except for the most casual of users. Those who have multiple…

Assuming nothing really bad comes out of the reviews, this looks like the best computer for like 99% of users. I really can't imagine buying some plastic-fantastic Acer unit when this is on the market.

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by giancarlostoro »

On the one hand I feel like 8GB is low these days, but my iPhone 12 Pro only had 6GB of RAM, so maybe for light usage this is fine. I do feel like 16GB is the new "8GB" minimum of the 2010s. Especially on windows, 32GB feels like Windows just chews through it no problem.

Overall, I might pick one of these up at some point.

Re: MacBook Neo

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Post by paxys »

> Built for Apple Intelligence.

With 8GB RAM?

After Tahoe and Apple Intelligence what's going to be left for actual applications to use?

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