Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'
Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours agoI can get a better PC than that for $400.
Are you sure? Because at this moment with $400 you only get the RAM.
Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'
Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours agoI can get a better PC than that for $400.
Are you sure? Because at this moment with $400 you only get the RAM.
artyom@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I’m positive, thanks. 2x8GB CL16 DDR5 RAM currently sells for ~$250.
Cort@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s a celery with a 128GB emmc. Even with 16GB of ram it’ll be so slow.
artyom@piefed.social 17 hours ago
So pull it out and replace it.
Cort@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Emmc is not nvme. They’re not compatible or interchangeable. You’ll be limited by the max emmc speeds for storage. It’s probably why it comes with an external drive, because they know just how slow the drive is.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Intel celeron N150?
I mean, yeah, technically it’s got more ram, but that’s literally the only thing going for it. I’ve got a mini-pc server with that exact CPU. It’s good enough for what I need it for, by my wife’s 5 generation old M1 Air from 2020 trounces it several times over in terms of speed, even with 8GB.
artyom@piefed.social 15 hours ago
An N150 w/16GB RAM is gonna be way more useful than a A16 or whatever with 8GB. Most people will never touch the potential power of their processor but they certainly will be doing a bunch of shit simultaneously.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
Categorically: nope.
encelado748@feddit.org 14 hours ago
As an owner of both an n150 minipc with 16gb of ram and an m1 8g air I can assure you this statement is false. The first is a toy compared to the latter. You can use it as inexpensive home server, but not as a work machine.
rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
I mean, if that fits your use-case, I’m not gonna tell you not to get it. Plenty of folks just need a machine for scrolling a social media feed, documents, and Youtube.
But anyone who wants more than what amounts to a Chromebook can get it pretty affordably with the low-end macbooks. Effectively tripling your speed for another $200 is definitely worth it for lots of folks, and memory paging is a lot faster than it used to be.
Benchmarks can be hit or miss, but aren’t totally useless:
N150: www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+N150
Low-end M1 from 2020: www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+M1+8+Core+…
And finally, the A19 they’re talking about using: www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+A19+Pro
blitzen@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
You’re absolutely right, that is an ass laptop.
artyom@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Almost as ass as a an irreparable, unupgradeable $700 Macbook with a phone processor and 8GB of RAM.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
That Celeron ain’t got nothing on any phone processor Apple’s made in at least the last half decade lol
I’m not sure the Macbook Neo will make sense, but I know for sure that docked tablet doesn’t. They’re also ass to repair, performance doesn’t exist and the screen belongs in 2008.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This is already less powerful than an old iPad. My SO is looking for a cheap laptop and this one is one I would tell her to avoid like the plague.
artyom@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Power is meaningless without RAM.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
The bottleneck of that laptop is CPU and drive, and with 8 gigs of RAM it would still be. 16GB RAM is the only thing that laptop has going for it.
Honestly, as a Certified Apple Hater I still have no doubts that the laptop with the A18Pro will run circles around the one you showed and will be a better bang for the buck.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Better to get a used Thinkpad with how well those hold up being over thousand dollars, but get discounted steeply to hundreds with companies offloading them once warranty is up. Can get actual nice Ryzen CPUs and have a proper storage.
artyom@piefed.social 8 hours ago
True, but now you’re talking about used PCs.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Yep, and used in this case is much better than the new cheap laptops with crappy specs.