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- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 hour ago:
Relevant because Neo has it built in.
The difference in manufacturing cost compared to the iPad Air is pocket change, way less than a M4 CPU would cost. It’s just Apple ripping off its customers as usual.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 hour ago:
How about a travel bag to hold all this extra equipment?
Completely irrelevant to the topic that Apple the cost of the Neo is not reasonable.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 hour ago:
Did you read the post?
You replied to my post and I compared Apple hardware to Apple hardware.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 hour ago:
How much for a 13" display to match the real estate of the Neo display?
Look up the costs of 11" and 13" HiDPI displays and subtract the costs yourself. I’m sure you can do it.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 1 hour ago:
A18 Pro? Intel? Neither CPU is used in the MacBook Neo nor the 599 iPad.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
you have to spend $270 on a keyboard/trackpad regardless
That’s Apple tax, not manufacturing cost. MacBook replacement keyboards sell for 10 dollars on Aliexpress.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
How about a keyboard that is similar to the Neo keyboard?
10 dollars and that’s retail, not manufacturing cost.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
How much does each USB port cost per device?
A 5-pack of USB C ports costs about one dollar on Aliexpress.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
Isn’t it about 40% cheaper than the M4 CPU macbook ?
It’s 100% the same price as another portable M4 computer sold by Apple
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
How soon until Asahi will run on it
Years. Asahi fully relies on reverse engineering by the community and those community members tend to get hired by the competition. Get a device where the platform designer supports Linux development upstream if your priority is Linux.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
Please enlighten me then, if you don’t mind. Are there some good benchmarks out there that show the Inadequacies of the A18 chip?
I found several after only 30 seconds of googling, including Apple fans’ favorite benchmark: Geekbench multicore where the A18 is about 40% slower.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 hours ago:
The MacBook doesn’t have a touchscreen. It cancels the keyboard cost out.
They don’t even put touch ID on the entry model.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 3 hours ago:
Similar iPads also come with a lot less ports, no physical keyboard, no aluminum clamshell protection, and a shittier OS.
If you honestly think these justify the crap CPU, you’re absolutely out of touch with reality.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 3 hours ago:
Apple’s is $270.
Typical Apple tax, completely unrelated to the few dollars a keyboard costs for real.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 3 hours ago:
Yeah 8gb of ram is unusable for most things.
Most notably web browsing which one would think this thing is mostly for.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 7 hours ago:
Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook
One has a keyboard (cheap components), the other has a touchscreen. The cost cancel each other out.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 7 hours ago:
Sure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.
So form factor, not hardware internals should be the deciding factor in cost?
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 8 hours ago:
Reasonably priced Mac.
Phone CPU. Similar priced iPads come with a much better CPU.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 8 hours ago:
makes it really good value
An iPad Air costs the same but comes with a much better M4 processor. The main difference is a less crap operating system in macOS.
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- Comment on Study shows how rocket launches pollute the atmosphere 1 week ago:
Fire causes air pollution. News at 11.
- Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI 1 week ago:
they are letting an AI develop the browser
The port from C++ to Rust was assisted by an LLM. That’s different from “ChatGPT, write me a web browser”.
I cannot speak for the quality of that code, not advocating for it, I merely want to make that distinction.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 1 week ago:
It reminds you of that because it’s the same interface. It’s literally just a different web view that checks the browser’s user agent string.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 1 week ago:
Alternative: flathub.org/apps/rocks.shy.VacuumTube
The UI is regular YouTube for TV but bundles plugins such as SposorBlock.
- Comment on Double standards 1 week ago:
Peacocks are chicken made of pea protein. They’re vegan! /s
- Comment on Great price Netflix. I wil get right on that /s 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Double standards 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure halal and kosher meat requires that the animals bleed out.
- Comment on Blocking Threads 2 weeks ago:
Threads doesn’t work with Lemmy/Piefed. Their ActivityPub implementation only targets Mastodon.
Also, instances that defederate from Threads but not Truth Social are a joke.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
BREXIT MEANS BREXIT
Stay on your island!
