Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip (macrumors.com) 147
Continuing its product launches this week, Apple today announced the "MacBook Neo," an all-new, low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip. It starts at $599 and begins shipping on Wednesday, March 11. MacRumors reports: The MacBook Neo is the first Mac to be powered by an iPhone chip; the A18 Pro debuted in 2024's iPhone 16 Pro models. Apple says it is up to 50% faster for everyday tasks than the bestselling PC with the latest shipping Intel Core Ultra 5, up to 3x faster for on-device AI workloads, and up to 2x faster for tasks like photo editing. The MacBook Neo features a 13-inch Liquid Retina display with a 2408-by-1506 resolution, 500 nits of brightness, and an anti-reflective coating. The display does not have a notch, instead featuring uniform, iPad-style bezels.
It is available in Silver, Indigo, Blush, and Citrus color options. The colored finishes extend to the Magic Keyboard in lighter shades and come with matching wallpapers. It weighs 2.7 pounds. There are two USB-C ports. One is a USB-C 2 port with support for speeds up to 480 Mb/s and one is a USB-C 3 port with support for speeds up to 10 Gb/s. There is also a headphone jack. The MacBook Neo also offers a 16-hour battery life, 8GB of unified memory, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6 connectivity, a 1080p front-facing camera, dual mics with directional beamforming, and dual side-firing speakers with Spatial Audio.
It is available in Silver, Indigo, Blush, and Citrus color options. The colored finishes extend to the Magic Keyboard in lighter shades and come with matching wallpapers. It weighs 2.7 pounds. There are two USB-C ports. One is a USB-C 2 port with support for speeds up to 480 Mb/s and one is a USB-C 3 port with support for speeds up to 10 Gb/s. There is also a headphone jack. The MacBook Neo also offers a 16-hour battery life, 8GB of unified memory, Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 6 connectivity, a 1080p front-facing camera, dual mics with directional beamforming, and dual side-firing speakers with Spatial Audio.
Wallpapers (Score:5, Funny)
I'm so glad it comes with matching wallpapers, that would've been a deal breaker for me.
Re: Wallpapers (Score:2)
Boss, I must have one. Gimme gimme gimme.
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I hope that was less confusing for you than the meaning of the term "magsafe."
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Yeah it was! I'm frankly surprised Apple still calls them wallpapers, I'd think they'd have called them something else far more stupid. At least they're still trying to gaslight people into thinking that Macs aren't PCs.
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It can be pretty triggering to feel like you're getting gaslit. Cheers.
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Does anyone still use wallpaper in their homes anymore? I think it fell out of fashion like 30 years ago.
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It's making a comeback. It's WAY easier than painting, and the glues are better so it's easier to get the paper off afterwards if you want to take it down.
I hope it does make a comeback (Score:3)
Yeah. I hung a lot of wallpaper when I was a teen because that's what my parents did for their house. I eventually got pretty good at it.
I'm decent at painting now too. but it's a lot more prep work. And when I'm doing wall treatments after hanging drywall, I prefer something like orange peel as the paint looks a lot better on it than smooth wall unless your house is perfectly straight.
My wife is not into doing wallpaper at all though, but I keep asking her. (I'm perpetually unfashionable) And of course she
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They're not. The word you're looking for is microcomputers.
The PC, short for Personal Computer, was IBM's entry into the microcomputer market. And, as you might expect from Big Blue, the terms were trademarked to hell and back. I don't know if IBM let them lapse since they existed the market. But PC has, from the very beginning, meant a microsoft OS running on intel or intel-compatible CPUs.
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As I remember, at the beginning PC's were offered with PC-DOS, CP/M-86 or UCSD Pascal. MS's contract allowed them to set the price of the OS's as I understand, so only one was cheap.
To quote Byte, https://archive.org/details/by... [archive.org]
OS is ommited (Score:3)
So odd that the product page on the Apple website doesn't say whether it runs OS X or IOS.
If people don't care, they might as well try shipping it running Linux...
It runs macOS. It's show in the video. (Score:3)
EOM
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Why would a laptop run a phone OS?
Re:OS is ommited (Score:4, Insightful)
Ask Google why they're trying to fold ChromeOS into Android. On that side they barely managed to just give it a new name, while on Android side they're toying with a terribly lacking "OS" UI, and all apps are still the regular Android apps, missing even the (proper) Chrome from ChromeOS (!). And they've been at it since late 2024 (publicly, probably more behind the scenes).
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Ask Google why they're trying to fold ChromeOS into Android.
Why would you ask a stupid question like that? They're obviously tired of maintaining two Linux distributions. ChromeOS only exists at all because Chrome for Android was shit at the time, and it was actually easier to make a whole new Linux distro than to fix it timely.
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And Apple has MacOS, iOS (and iPadOS) based on Darwin (BSD).
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And Apple has MacOS, iOS (and iPadOS) based on Darwin (BSD).
Yes, and look at how they are making them more like one another over time. Eventually they will either merge them or discard one and go another direction.
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That's what we were asking ourselves when Windows 8 came out.
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Well, my Mac Mini (newest version) can run some IOS games. It's kinda neat.
And you should tar and feather me for doing a few micro-payments in one of them. I hate myself.
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Nothing odd about it. It's a laptop formfactor. Apple has not to date shipped a laptop formfactor device with iOS nor a slate device with MacOS. Do they also need to state on their website that the Sun will rise tomorrow?
Re: OS is ommited (Score:2)
Those are called iPads, with the magic keyboard case. They've been around for years, over a decade.
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The product page mentions macOS Tahoe in several places. That should have been a huge giant obvious clue.
Charging extra for security? (Score:2)
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It also has twice the storage, so it's not all about the Touch Id. Everything costs money, even the Touch Id. If Apple intends to offer the cheapest laptop it can, then it does make sense. We got along just fine for a long time without biometrics. Touch Id mostly adds convenience. And, given what I've observed, people tend to use their laptops with an admin account and either no password or a simple 1234 style password.
Re:Charging extra for security? (Score:5, Interesting)
Or, perhaps Apple wants to push back against Chrome books in education, and touch ID/biometrics can be dicey with PSUs (public school units in this context) in the US.
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What's that got to do with it? Don't administrators have ultimate control over how hardware is used and how systems are set up? If not, then I would argue MacOS has no business in the school and Chromebooks have nothing to worry about.
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That's really not obvious? If you're buying close-to-disposable computers for 5,000 or 30,000 other 80,000 students in a district, why would you pay for hardware that you can't, by policy, use?
Who knows if Apple will make a dent in the Chromebook market with this, I kind of doubt it, but these are some weird reactions. None of the Chromebooks my kids use have any biometrics either (and terrible touchpads, terrible keyboards, terrible screens, etc.)
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Citation, please. I'm reading the keyboard with Touch ID is just a hardware purchase, no subscription.
Prove it, prove me wrong, and watch the mod points valorize
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It is not a subscription. The one and only option available on the new MacBook Neo is $100 to double storage from a 256GB SSD to 512GB SSD and adds Touch ID. This is something many schools DON'T want, as it means storing student information they cannot access. You see the same on Chromebooks, where they're offered with and without similar.
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This is something many schools DON'T want, as it means storing student information they cannot access.
Schools shouldn't care. The ability to use hardware or not should be lockable on an OS level by the administrator.
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The ability to use hardware or not should be lockable on an OS level by the administrator.
Why would they want to pay for hardware they aren't going to use?
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This means schools can save $100 by going with the lower storage option and they'll still be able to lockdown these machines. Touch ID and Secure Enclave just gives the user options like Apple Pay, and additional protections from an administrator accessing their data. Yes, an administrator could lock it down so they can't access such functionality, but then the user also loses access to such also.
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TouchID is a nice-to-have, not a must-have. I have a Mac Mini and I have no way to get TouchID on this thing and it doesn't make it a bad computer with no security.
The extra storage is the REAL thing you want for MacOS. 256GB is almost unworkable, IMO. It's what I have on this Mac Mini and I've had to fight pretty hard to keep my disk space free, even with a bunch of external drives hanging off of it.
A cheap MacOS Laptop? (Score:3)
This could be a writer's dream laptop. 16 hour battery life advertised, so probably around 10-12 hours of actual use. If this thing runs my writing apps worth a damn, I could be tempted back to the Apple universe just for my writing. Linux works mostly, but I miss my Scrivener running without weird glitches. WINE mostly lets it run, but it's sloppy which leads to fears as the projects grow longer.
Congrats Apple. You're tempting me for the first time in a very, VERY long time.
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I've never used it, but an author friend of mine swears by Ulysses (mac software).
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I've never used it, but an author friend of mine swears by Ulysses (mac software).
I haven't used it either, but from what little I know, Ulysses is similar but has more features built in, like grammar checking and such.
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Scriveners organization system really is its killer feature. Its amazing being able to just nest folders deep with research and notes and have that in the same space as folders with chapters and other detaills, that can be transformed into a zillion different final formats for publication. Word USED to be great but they seem to have deprecated their outline system which was always its killer feature in my view. Scrivener lives and breathes its outline features
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I would agree with that except Apple's keyboards have gone to shit over the last decade or so, and there's zero chance their lowest end laptop is going to have a decent keyboard when their higher range offerings and even their desktop keyboards make Chromebooks look quality.
(I really wish Apple would fix this, because aside from everything else they set the trends, and numerous other manufacturers have decided if Apple doesn't care about keyboards, neither should they. I have a Thinkpad from the mid-2000s s
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I would agree with that except Apple's keyboards have gone to shit over the last decade or so
Which is especially ironic considering how good the keyboard was on their first laptop. They made a great machine the first time, took a long look at it, and said "we'll never do that again." Powerbooks all had meh keyboards at best for example, I had a 230c.
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Entire anecdotal and subjective, but I absolutely love the keyboard on my M1 MacBook Air. My M4 MacBookPro.... less so... but it's the same as my M1 MacBookPro had. The Air really just has a fantastic keyboard.
Digging around the site, they're selling refurb M4 Airs for just a shade over the higher spec on these new Neos, and that seems like a much better laptop overall. I may have to ponder this one a bit.
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M4s are excellent performing parts- being able to get one for that price is very worth it, if you're in the market for it.
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Apple Refurbished is always worth it if they have what you want! Same specs, same warranty, same extended warranty options. Literally the only thing you don't get is the "original unboxing" experience and a few hundred dollars more out of your pocket.
Every Mac I ever owned save one was refurbished. Like you say, it's the same machine with the same warranty.
Overdue. (Score:3)
This is one of the points where I actually would say "This wouldn't have happened with Steve Jobs". Ever since he died they've been somewhat neglecting that one affordable price-point option they always had since the iMac days. It has been a very long time since I've been this interested in an Apple product. Will check if out, might get one. If I ever again get a laptop that is and convergence doesn't happen before that.
USB 2? (Score:2)
Wow, I can't believe they had the gall to put a USB 2 port on that thing.
Re:USB 2? (Score:4, Informative)
It's a limitation of the A18 processor. It supports one port at USB3 speeds. Be real, 99.9% of people using this thing have no need for even a single USB3 port. At no point during their ownership will they need to plug in anything other than the charger to this thing.
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At no point during their ownership will they need to plug in anything other than the charger to this thing.
Unless they want to back up their data to someplace other than Apple's cloud, in which case they will absolutely want to plug in a USB3 storage device. There's no need to make excuses for a corporation that doesn't give even one one-thousandth of a shit about you.
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The average user doesn't connect a drive to their machine to backup. The purpose of this machine has gone a mile over your head. These people need nothing more than the free iCloud backup and that's just fine.
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The "free" iCloud backup only comes with 5GB of storage, which is even less than Google and Microsoft offer.
If you have an iPhone and use the camera at all, you'll use up that storage and need an upgrade in less than a year. Maybe it would last a longer if you had just a Macbook, but the iPhone integration is one of the big selling points of this device.
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in which case they will absolutely want to plug in a USB3 storage device
Then they're in luck, there's a USB3 port on the laptop.
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8gb ram (I get that AI is eating our ram, but come on)
It costs $100+ right now to get 8GB DDR5 SODIMM of any brand, speed, etc. Apple has to buy it just like everyone else. Their orders are for millions of units at a time.
Just sell a laptop style doc for an iPhone already. There'd easily be room for an M.2 mount and extra battery capacity too.
And how would this dock interact with an iPhone where iOS is designed around touch controls?
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Run MacOS and iOS on the same device as containers and which OS is available depends on if it is plugged in to a screen/dock or not. My iPhone has 1 TB storage, so disk space isn’t an issue.
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Run MacOS and iOS on the same device as containers and which OS is available depends on if it is plugged in to a screen/dock or not. My iPhone has 1 TB storage, so disk space isn’t an issue.
Again how would you run iOS that is designed around touch controls? I said nothing about disk space. iOS is designed around touch, specifically multi-touch. It is not designed for keyboard and mice. You need a multi-touch interface with it. Like using another iPhone/iPad as the interface which would defeat the purpose of having a dock.
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And how would this dock interact with an iPhone where iOS is designed around touch controls?
Given they can run full MacOS on the system, it seems like a software exercise to have the phone detect and run an appropriate OS interface for the form factor.
That said, they'd need a different iPhone anyway, for the same reasons this laptop is so limited, you couldn't implement a compelling 'dock' via external connection with this hardware.
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Given they can run full MacOS on the system, it seems like a software exercise to have the phone detect and run an appropriate OS interface for the form factor.
Ok, and what is the appropriate multi-touch monitor that they should use for this form factor? Also if they need to induce a shake for a specific control like Undo, should the user shake the monitor?
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I said that the OS personality would adapt, not that the docked phone would act just like a 'giant phone'.
E.g. if you take an android phone with desktop capability and you 'dock' it, you get desktop style window management, mouse cursor, etc. Except their window manager is pretty lame, but that's not fundamental to the concept.
Look at this device, it's effectively a hard-docked iPhone already. iOS and MacOS are roughly common core with different 'desktop shells'. So in principle you have the desktop shel
Re: USB 2? (Score:2)
I've owned an iPhone for 10 plus years and while I'm sure it's possible I've never shook my iPhone to do anything. Are you really arguing that it would be hard for Apple to make an iPhone dockable? Are you on their payroll of something.
Re: USB 2? (Score:2)
You seem to have forgot that iPads and iPhones work with keyboards and mice.
Similar usefulness as the 2016 MacBook... (Score:3)
This is of similar usefulness as the MacBook made in 2016, with the m3 CPU (not M3, Intel m3). It wasn't a screaming machine by any means, and it only had one USB port... but it was good enough for most things, like basic Web apps, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
I am thinking about the Neo + the TouchID scanner upgrade.
The Neo is about the cost of a decent tablet, offers decent functionality, a USB dock can be added so it can be plugged into a basic keyboard and monitor setup. This is ideal for taking a personal PC with the business laptop on a business trip. (I always keep my personal stuff on my own device.)
For this, it is ideal, and if it gets lost or stolen, iCloud Lock provides a decent defense of the data present combined with benefit denial.
Is this better than an 11" iPad? I prefer the 11" iPad with a keyboard because it is easier to wrangle, and some laptop cases have a spot for a tablet. The tablet is definitely more secure, with its built in cellular connection. However, the restrictions on workflow on a tablet compared to a desktop OS can get annoying.
It's an interesting, lower-cost Mac (Score:2)
However I see that I can get a refurbished M2 MacBook Air for $679, or an M4 Air for $759. Those are more capable, but with 16GB of RAM and MagSafe (although the storage is 256GB). The M4 will actually drive multiple displays.
I will say I'm glad to see Apple isn't ignoring this market segment anymore... I liked the old plastic MacBooks from, what, 15 years ago?
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Some personal pros and cons from me (Score:3)
I'm intrigued by Apple's decision to add another MacBook model to their lineup that, for the most part, has stayed pretty much the same since the early 2010s, but I think there's a fair bit more bad than good.
Pros:
* More affordable than almost anything else from Apple, but you're still looking at Apple's absurd prices for what you get
* Nice display size, bonus points for not having that goddamn notch Apple seems to love
* Runs on an ARM SoC, which could open the door to future support from the Asahi Linux project
* Comes in yellow, which is my favorite color
Cons:
* Only 3 ports on the entire machine - come on Apple, I thought you were past that bullshit. I guess decent port selection is only for the rich
* Runs macOS, which is a net negative in my opinion
* SoC is from a smartphone, so probably not very performant compared to other MacBooks or even a decent x86 laptop
* Linux support (if it comes at all - for all we know, Asahi might decide to skip it) won't show up for a good while, so you're stuck on macOS if you pick one up right away
* If we're being realistic, Apple's SoCs probably have a backdoor somewhere that we don't know of (and therefore can't disable like the Intel Spyware Engine)
* Probably has worse build quality than Apple's normal standards, which are already kind of low in some regards
* You're left with the shame of being viewed as a member of the cult of Apple hipsters
Jack 3.5 millimeter (Score:2)
45 long slide with laser sighting
"Only what you see, pal"
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But seriously, is an iPhone chip up to the task?
That was my concern, too - does it suggest the Neo is underpowered or the iPhone overpowered? Although, as I think about it, most tasks people complete on their phone (posting to social media, taking and minor edits to photos, email, text, whatsapp, browsing the web) are similar tasks to those most people do on their laptops, just with a larger screen. It does seem really odd that they would put this chip in a new laptop when they've got M-series in their iPads (although those would be $200+ more expensive
Re:An affordable Macbook? (Score:5, Informative)
But seriously, is an iPhone chip up to the task?
That was my concern, too - does it suggest the Neo is underpowered or the iPhone overpowered?
Both. For a phone, the iPhone is massively overpowered. For a laptop, the chip is massively underpowered.
It's fast enough at single-core or low-core-count workloads to be a decent Chromebook equivalent. Where it falls apart is connectivity.
IMO, Apple should not have released this product as designed. It adds needless levels of confusion in the marketplace to have USB-C ports that aren't compatible with Thunderbolt peripherals or devices, and the extra confusion from having a crappy USB 2.0 port disguised as a USB-C port is sure to piss users off enough that a lot of them won't come back. I doubt they shaved more than a couple of dollars off the bill of materials for that corner cutting.
Re:An affordable Macbook? (Score:4, Insightful)
Think of this like a Mac for mom or grandma that now costs $300 less than the entry-level Mac you'd otherwise have to buy that was overkill for what they needed. That's what this product is. Expect to see loads of these on college campuses next fall because a less expensive MacBook is going to be incredibly popular with students.
Re:An affordable Macbook? (Score:4, Interesting)
For a laptop, the chip is fine. The A18Pro is faster than the M1 Mac Mini that I'm typing this on, and the M1s are all still getting along just fine--I'd like a newer machine because I compile code now and then and it's punishing on this thing, but for day-to-day use, it's still going strong. The REAL limiting factor on these machines is storage. 256GB is *barely* enough. macOS is bad about allowing you to offload certain things to external drives without jumping through some hoops, and once the space starts to run out, the OS flips out pretty hard. So storage management is kind of always an ongoing thing.
But if you're mostly using it for a bit of schoolwork, web browsing, some spreadsheets, and you rely on the cloud for all your photos and music, it's probably fine.
Seriously, this is a very good deal. I do agree that they should have physically marked the USB 2.0 port SOMEHOW, but other than that, this was a decent set of compromises to make to drop the price.
Re: An affordable Macbook? (Score:2)
No it doesn't stop havering. People wont 'get confused' people actually just dont care. Only people posting on nerd site about this topic like yourself are the people who care and they already know what it mea
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Re: An affordable Macbook? (Score:2)
>>I doubt they shaved more than a couple of dollars off the bill of materials for that corner cutting.
Tim doesn't even include thier apple logo stickers with their hardware devices anymore.
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The tasks may be similar, but iOS is aggressive about suspending or terminating applications that are not in the foreground.
I would be skeptical of performance with multiple foregrounded apps, personally.
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The tasks may be similar, but iOS is aggressive about suspending or terminating applications that are not in the foreground
Hmm, I wonder if it ran a version of iOS if it would be a better experience for the user?
Re:An affordable Macbook? (Score:5, Interesting)
The A18 Pro would have been considered a supercomputer-class processor not too long ago.
Re:An affordable Macbook? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Nice to see a good-natured post/joke about an Apple product for a change.
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I'd be more worried about the non-upgradable 8 GB of RAM. You can burn up that much memory nowadays just by opening Firefox with a couple of browser tabs and a basic Mac application like Notes.
I can also see some high school kids getting this laptop and then getting annoyed that they can't play a quick Fortnite match between assignments.
Re: An affordable Macbook? (Score:2)
I'm inclined to think this is like the Gillette twin blade razor wars all over again. "ya, we got your Chromebook right here"
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Yes, a Chromebook that is likely several years old and cost $200 is going to be disappointing compared to a $1000 laptop from a premium manufacturer.
There is an awful lot of middle ground between those, though.
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There is an awful lot of middle ground between those, though.
Is there though? I hadn't specced out PC laptops in some time, so I just checked. I looked for 11" non-Chromebooks.
First comment--HP, Dell, Lenovo all have annoying, cluttered websites with unclear product lines. At Lenovo, when I click Laptops, I'm next asked to pick between Lenovo Thinkpad, Lenovo Yoga, Lenovo Legion, Lenovo Loq, Lenovo Thinkbook, Lenovo Ideapad, and Lenovo Slim. Acer -- Everyday, Professional, Swift, Nitro, Travelmate, Aspire, or Thin & Powerful. Ugh!
Dell, 11" Education laptop (Windo
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The 8GB of RAM on this thing seems like a mistake though. Not that they don't function fine on 8GB- I've got a coworker using an M1 Air with 8GB still to this day... but still 16GB is a common offering at that price point.
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but still 16GB is a common offering at that price point.
A few models yes. Dell.com will deceptively show you a $329 laptop if you select 16GB filter however that price applies to the 8GB variant of that model. The 16GB variant might be $700. For $600 there are quite a few 8GB models.
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I would prefer 16gb of ram, but with macOS, I don't think it's that big a deal (I'm also not the target market for this laptop). I assume this is also related to the recent surge in ram pricing.
Pretty much every PC laptop I specced in the $500-$600 range has 8gb as well. Windows will eat that up far faster than the Mac. Heck, the Acer Travelmate B3 11 ($450) only comes with 4gb (!).
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What they have is a fast SSD that makes paging seem less impactful to you. However, you will pay for that reduced RAM in shorter SSD lifespan.
Pretty much every PC laptop I specced in the $500-$600 range has 8gb as well.
You didn't try very hard.
Go to Amazon, search for PC laptop, click the 16GB button on the left.
No, 8GB is not the norm for that price range.
Heck, the Acer Travelmate B3 11 ($450) only comes with 4gb (!).
The B3 11 can also be outfit with 8GB for $549.
Also, that's a laptop literally for children.
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My anecdotal impression (just to be clear, it is anecdotal) is that I know more and more people who no longer have home computer. They're doing everything they need on a phone or tablet.
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My gaming/TV desktop at home is an i7-4790 from ~12 years ago. It has an ~8 year old SSD, 16gb ram, etc. The newest part is a Nvidia 3080 from ~6 years ago.
It runs everything I want to run just fine. It runs everything my kids want to run just fine.
Why do you think latest and greatest top specs matter for the vast majority of the marketplace?
The A19 has more cores than the i7, uses ~1/10 of the energy, and I would imagine (without seeing benchmarks) the performance is strongly better.
p.s. hilarious job with
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What are you doing on a portable device that requires 128gb of ram and 64 cores?
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The 128GB is ridiculously handy for large data processing.
It also, as an aside, ended up making it really functional for local LLM running.
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So many people are looking to escape Microslop but Apple thought it would be funny to sell a Clownbook with specs that were obsolete in 2017.
From what I can see, you can spend $20 more and get a Clownbook with Microslop from Dell [dell.com] with nearly the same specs. Or a Lenovo [lenovo.com] for $50 less. It will be interesting to see when people pit these against each other in tests.
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This reads less like "new product category" and more like "oh f*ck, people can't afford our products any more.",
It has 8GB of LPDDR5X RAM. It is $100+ dollars right now for a stick of 8GB DDR5 SODIMM. Now I wouldn't buy one of these MacBooks as it does not suit my requirements, but it seems like no one can afford anything these days.
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Apple just released a new $3499 monitor this week and a $4800 laptop, they're still clearly in belief that the high-end market exists too.
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Apple just released a new $3499 monitor this week and a $4800 laptop, they're still clearly in belief that the high-end market exists too.
Yes, they need something to sell for receptionist use in the lobbies of the various AI scams.
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It reads to me like they're making a reach for next step down in price point.
Spoken like someone without kids (Score:3)
This reads less like "new product category" and more like "oh f*ck, people can't afford our products any more."
Correction: People have young children who need a laptop and would rather buy a $600 one in a nice color than deal with Windows or rely on giving them the grown-ups hand-me-downs and then listening to their kids complain about never having a decent battery and wondering when something critical will break. This is not meant to be your only macbook. It's meant to allow your kids to have their own instead of borrowing yours.
THIS IS HUGE. I think it will be a hot seller and they should have done this lo