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.
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artyom@piefed.social 15 hours agoAn 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.
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artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
I also own both and disagree.
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
artyom@piefed.social 8 hours ago
These are CPU benchmarks, they don’t account for available RAM.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca 3 hours ago
Categorically: nope.
artyom@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Seriously: yep.