The MacBook Neo went from $599 to $699. That's still significantly more powerful than anything you could buy at that price point last year.

I’m not happy with the price increases either, but saying this is the end of personal computing or that the next step is dumb terminals for everyone is very the-sky-is-falling.

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drnick1 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Get an XPS13 for the same money, and put Linux on it. It's a much better hardware/software combo, and Apple can't unilaterally kill it by refusing to provide upgrades a few years from now.

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frollogaston 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah it'll just be dead on arrival instead

Edit: Also Intel Core 5 320 that's way slower than the Neo, with same amount of RAM

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drnick1 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Also Intel Core 5 320 that's way slower than the Neo, with same amount of RAM

Arrant nonsense, the Core 5 comfortably beats the A18.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+5+320&id...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Apple+A18+Pro+%28Ma...

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frollogaston 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Seeing the other way around on Geekbench 6, for example https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/18371082 vs https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16884902 and the Intel has more samples there than on Passmark

n.b. the Geekbench multicore test is more like a 2-core test because it adds lock contention, which is arguably closer to the real use case for these machines but isn't what you normally think of a multicore test doing

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toraway an hour ago | parent [-]

Though it does seem safe to say your original claim of "way slower than the Neo" isn't correct. Considering it's losing in one benchmark and only ahead in Geekbench (that tends to show higher scores for Apple processors relative to other benchmarks anyway).

"Roughly equal" seems to be a more accurate description.

	▲	frollogaston 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's not normal for these two benchmarks to deviate that much, so I'm not gonna take an average between them, just trust one or the other. My default has always been Geekbench, I didn't even look at Passmark until it was mentioned, and in this case Geekbench thinks the Mac's single-core speed is 35% higher.