1. Gawd damn, scrolling through that page full of all those bright colors with their saturation cranked up to 11, feels like I'm being flash-banged by a Cocomelon episode. No other page from Apple is like that. wtf

2. Would a used older hand-me-down Macbook Air/Pro not be better performance/value than this iPhone board in a cheap laptop shell? There was a guy here saying he bought a used Macbook Air M1 16GB for 250 Euros.

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cfiggers 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> 2.

To an individual consumer perhaps, but schools need to buy hundreds at a time and the second-hand market isn't really great for that.

This is basically Apple taking a bite at the Chromebook market. Interested to see what reviewers have to say.

	▲	whizzter 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Definetly, my kids at different schools had iPad's and Chromebooks. The kid with the iPad was using an external keyboard most of the time iirc.

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whizzter 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

2: I'd say it's about the same, same RAM/SSD sizes, maybe an M1 chip is faster than A18 but limitations will come from running out of ram/disk Had an intern working with us, basically couldn't have an browser running together with Figma due to ram shortage making it slow down to a crawl.

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Handprint4469 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> feels like I'm being flash-banged by a Cocomelon episode.

This is by design, who do you think the target market for this Macbook is?

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spacecadet 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

2. Apple would know best no? lol, this screams Cook. Too many iphone boards? Existing laptop tooling. Bam, revenue.

	▲	microtonal 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That doesn't make much sense. They do lean/JIT manufacturing, so it's unlikely that they have too many iPhone boards. Also, the tooling for a completely new alu unibody size for just selling a few iPhone boards does not make much sense. This is very clearly targeted at Chromebooks in education, where the iPad is not doing too great: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-apple-lost-the-k-12-educ...

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mantas 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A used one probably has not-so-healthy battery and a bit worn keyboard. Maybe some scratches on the screen as well.

At this price, a new device seems very tempting over dealing with a used hardware which is always a bit of a lottery.

Performance-wise A18 would be plenty for casual stuff. IIRC it's faster than M1.