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Apple's $599 MacBook Neo Sold Out Through April Amid Surging Demand (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] 19 points 5 months ago (10 children)

No surprise really. For the price it’s a pretty great little machine. People who complain about the specs are just not familiar with Macs and are basing their comments on windows assumptions or are not the target market for this device.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's a mac-sized iphone(A18.)

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    And that’s plenty of CPU and memory for most tasks. I threw a 150GB image at one with Affinity to edit in the Apple Store. Didn’t even blink.

    People forget how powerful phone CPUs are. If they let iPhones run full OSX natively with a display, keyboard and mouse docked they’d upend the entire computer market.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    My concern lies squarely with the 8GB of RAM. MacOS has great swapping implementation, but swap is not magic.

    Inevitably, the OS and applications will get heavier, requiring more swap and therefore more disk reads and writes.

    8GB on phones isn’t bad as iOS and Android are designed to freeze and kill background apps quickly. As an app developer, it’s something you design around. But on a desktop, that’s not an option, apps should only be frozen and killed at the last moment to avoid locking up the OS.

    I’d be more comfortable buying an older/used M1 Mac with 16GB of RAM. And given that Neo and M1 are roughly comparable, they should hopefully be supported for the same length of time.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    I was concerned until I played with it. It’s not a MBP but it’s remarkably fast for what it is. Playing with a 150MB photo didn’t cause it to break a sweat. Video editing HD footage is probably fine too.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Ngl I had the baseless worry Tahoe was gonna choke out the M1, now with the Neo I have more confidence Apple will keep their new OS releases optimized 😅

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