| ▲ | saltyoldman 4 hours ago |
| I think the craziest thing is that a macbook for $599 that's more powerful than nearly anything they had offered a decade ago (except probably ram amount), and even after adjusting for inflation (which is like 35% from 10 years ago) means the price dropped at least $1500 for a comparable. (People may correct me if I'm wrong) |
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| ▲ | asdff 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The ram is the real sticking point honestly. Yes they are more powerful but consider people's use case. My 2012 dual core mbp is still performant for what most people use their computers for: internet, email, office suite, etc. And I shoved 16gb RAM in that thing 10 years ago. I guess they will just swap on the fast ssd so it will be alright. |
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| ▲ | cls59 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If Apple keeps using A Pro-series chips for the Neo, then the RAM will go to at least 12GB when they swap to the A19 Pro, or newer. | |
| ▲ | riffraff 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > I guess they will just swap on the fast ssd so it will be alright but that should cause extra wear on the SSD, or is this no longer a concern? | | |
| ▲ | asdff 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Certainly but I'd guess the problem won't manifest for years and other showstopping pieces might fail before then. That old frankenstein macbook of mine had the same 850 evo ssd I shoved in it for like 8 years of use and abuse, always high temps with that macbook too. People say you shouldn't use an ssd like that but oh well, it seems to work alright. | |
| ▲ | GeekyBear an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | There wouldn't be so many people who see no need to upgrade their M1 series computers if this were a real concern. |
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| ▲ | varispeed 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Friend of mine has 32GB laptop with top spec last gen Intel 9 and it barely handles larger Word documents and Teams calls. The fan is just obnoxious on top of that. | | |
| ▲ | asdff 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There is just no way it is actually barely handling them. My 2012 with the dual core handles that. Fans turning on doesn't mean it barely handles it. That is just how those intel macs were. They were like that on day 1 in 2012. Spotlight indexing could be enough to spin the fans. Still does the job though even if its hot and noisy. | |
| ▲ | rationalist 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Top-spec computers will always shit the bed when they aren't taken care of properly (bloatware, blocked airflow, etc) | | |
| ▲ | asdff 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Even for the arm series macs the max cpus run way hotter and spin fans sooner than base model in general tasks. Just how those chips are designed. They aren't designed to throttle to keep temps down, they are designed to give you all the horsepower knowing you don't care about noise and heat and care about performance. |
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| ▲ | lowbloodsugar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| >a decade ago It's more powerful than my $4000 M1 Max until it heat soaks. |
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| ▲ | regularfry 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Is it? I had it pegged as pretty much neck-and-neck with the 8GB M1 Macbook Pro that work gave me. |
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