MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production

Post by trimethylpurine » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 3:45 AM UTC

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These are new. The Macs are faster if you use regular Windows out of the box with all the bloat. But that's not what businesses do. Put any kind of security software on the Mac and remove the bloat from Windows (normal for enterprises), and the Windows machines are faster. You can blame the security software if you like, but you have to have it to carry insurance. And you have to have it to make a fair comparison any…

Which security software matters greatly. If its poorly optimized, and doesn't use Apple's framework it's going to perform terribly (SentinelOne is notorious for this) , and by default with smb on mac it will scan every single file modification over the network. If you're working with huge files over smb you have to disable packet signing, make sure the mac isn't writing and looking for .DS_Store, and make sure direct…

Post by bel8 » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 6:07 AM UTC

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Indeed there aren’t many of us, but macOS is easily the worst part of the Mac experience, and worryingly it’s getting comparatively worse vs kde or even gnome each year. ‘It’s POSIX’ doesn’t cut it when I deploy to Linux and I work in containers all day anyway (and wsl is better than macOS at this, too, but the rest of windows went downhill real bad recently). The problem is even before the rampocalypse it just wasn’…

FWIW I run real linux VMs on my Mac with Lima. Only limitation is that it can’t use the GPU. Otherwise works great for me. Is WSL functionally equivalent?

Post by static_motion » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

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You're right, I skimmed over the latter part of your comment. I don't know about your claim that M1/M2 will outperform Wildcat Lake in performance and battery life though, do we know specific figures to be able to say that for sure?

M1/M2 matches Panther lake i5 chips in performance and still excels at efficiency. Hard to imagine Wildcat can do anything extra here.

Post by osigurdson » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

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It hurts, but I'll pay a premium for worse hardware that will run Linux. But for others in my family Macbooks are just far better value by a wide margin than Windows laptops. Vertical integration really wins these days.

I've been wondering for a while, how much of macos can you strip out and still run a VM with something like linux in it? Ideally passing through as much of the hardware as possible, and booting right into that config. Running it natively is ideal, but projects like Asahi are forced to play catch up porting another OS to new devices.

Post by codedokode » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

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The screen is too small, not usable for work, you can buy a 15-inch Linux laptop for the same price. And it might even have replaceable RAM and SSD. Also, 8 Gb is too little, it will become a useless toy several years later. Also, there are just 2 USB ports and no USB-A. Also I wonder how long the keyboard lasts and how does one replace it.

What do you use the USB-A for? I mean, I get it, I still have flash drives with the A-style connector. Is there some other critical item that you use on the regular (and is awkward with the little adapters)?