Find me a better value laptop. You can't.
680 dollar acer aspire might have ethernet have x86 and be 319 dollar savings not for everybody
>>108275291Is the SSD on these Macbooks non-removable like the RAM? That would explain the low price.
>>108275301Yes, I was going to attach the image of a version with the 512 GB SSD, but it seems that they're either out of stock or there are no sales on them, probably because an update to M5 is expected this week
>>108275291it's cheap rn because a better newer one is coming real soon. Can you call dumping of old stock 'value'? Well, guess that depends on the eye of beholder to be serious
>>108275323therein lies why its being shilled here, panic selling high before it fucking drops massive "value"
Value brained retards. Just buy an rtx 6000 pro and enjoy it.>but i want le $30,000,000.00 to spend when I am old, crippled, blind and deaf
>>108275291M4 air 10 core gpu 512gb ssd 16gb ram 7 battery cycles purchased used with minor cosmetic damage at $720
gemibook
16GB unified? Easy there Mr moneybags
>>108275291Maybe I'm out of touch, but surely this is marked up for being a mac, right? I don't remember laptops being this shitty of a deal.
>>108275340expensive123
>>108275301Yes.
>>108275301Most mac users have an external ssd anyway.
>>108275291An old $50 Dell laptop from Facebook marketplace.
>>108275291I'd buy it if it ran Linux and was half as large.
>>108275875Asahi Linux
>>108275964Unsupported for the M4 chip
I don't know, anon. Soldered ram and storage(?) at that price point would be a dealbreaker to me. But you do you.
>>108275964Is the author still alive? I thought they wigged out and quit (I can't believe this is real) reverse engineering the hardware since Apple refuses to publish documentation.
>>108275291Apple resell store: Yes you can for less
>>108275981Would 16/512 be okay if it cost $1099?
>>108275291ive bought better hardware than this for <$200
>>108276077Like what?
>>108276001https://asahilinux.org/blog/idk who you mean by author but the project is still alive
>>108275301the base 256G ssd is also slow as shitif you dont believe me go ahead look it up2,100 MB/s like it's 1st gen nvme from a decade ago
>>108275291Used ThinkPad for fiddy bux mate
>>108276380>Thinkpad T480, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 8 core CPUB-b-but how is that better?>can run linux>can repair shit if it breaks>better keyboard>nipple>roll cage so it won't break if i drop it
>>108275299fuck no I hate Acer with a passion, at least shill some dell or asus consumer grade trash
>13"Didn't know they made laptops for ants
>>108275291Better buy an iPad.they are the same shit
>>108275291>apple>13.6">16 gbhard pass
>>108276799You can do 15.3", and 24 or 32 GB in either 13.6" or 15.3"
>>108275291But I need to do more than just checking my email and watching gay porn. Does apple offer a solution with an actual OS?
For those that criticize soldered ram just keep in mind that right now the text we have incentivizes soldered ram for performance issues, a lot of laptops now come with soldered ram for that same reason even PCs like the Framework does it.
>>108276672if you literally don't do anything other than watch videos, read PDFs, video calls, skim a spreadsheet, then you are genuinely better off with an iPad. it's more portable, costs less, turning your display 90° to portrait mode is very useful. no downside as long as you know what you actually need a computer for.
>>108275291You're right, the m4 is incredible, but /g/ is full of contrarian gnuspergs, so the very mention of apple gives them a meltie. They start grasping at straws about shit no one with a brain gives a fuck about.
>>108277016the only legitimate criticism is that it doesn't have the massive x86 software library
>>108275291There are none. But I wouldn't take 256gb ssd. On my 512gb - macos is 109,3gb total. I don't know wtf is exactly in "system data" - on work laptop it is even larger (109gb) + 29gb macos.>System Data: Contains files that don’t fall into the categories listed here. This category primarily includes files and data used by the system, such as log files, caches, VM files and other runtime system resources. Also included are temporary files, fonts, app support files and plug-ins. You can’t manage the contents of this category. The contents are managed by macOS, and the category varies in size depending on the current state of your Mac. You can manage your data that falls outside the other categories using the Finder or the third-party apps that created it.
>>108277262it's your cache. that's always a lot of storage
>>108277016Why is Apple derangement syndrome so strong on this board? What's the reason?
>>108277942technical literacy
>>108275291Don't actually buy 256 GB
>>108275871I did that and fucking av1 codec filtered me :(Now I when I download I have to make sure it's I'm hevc or my fucking quad core starts LARPing as a fighter jet. And no both the sexy dancing kind.
>>108277016First here's your (you), faggot.Second, when people argue that applel can do better it's not because they want to narrow the options to one manufacturer, it's because they want every manufacturer to expand it's options.The limitations arbitrarily placed on applels devices are frustrating knowing that applel can actually build and offer a real computing device to satisfy would be customers.Instead they pull some bullshit marketing to wrangle as many drooling normies into their gay overpriced ecosystem.
>>108275291ez
>>108278807Is the the logical step if upgrading from a T420?
>>108278920yes, nupads are a downgrade
>>108278807Is it good
>>108275291>Find me a better value laptop. You can't.I can't think of a worse consumer product than apple stuff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZ8ek-6ccc
>>108275291Alienware 18 Area-51 Gaming LaptopIntel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX, 24 coresNVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 508032 GB DDR52 TB SSD18" WQXGA
what is the cheapest pantherlake laptop with a b390 on it?
Anons, just in: MacBook Air now starts at 512 GB storage, $1099. So it confirmed that the new low-cost MacBook will start at $799 or $699 then.
heheheh 16 core neural engineheheheheeheheh oh man
>>108275291does it run any real os?I have one macbook pro with an arm and it's just gathering dustos is so shitty. I just use it when I have to compile something for applel os or troubleshoot iToy devicesfuck off
>>108275291completely ruined by the 256GB SSD. FFS my phone has more than that. How much is left after an Xcode install? 50GB?
glad I waited. I was thinking about picking up a mba for my on the go old mmo machine. though, the mbp I want with similar specs is only $300 more.
>>108275291I found one. Costs like 400 bucks.
>>108275291More bang for your buck
>>108276452Come on now
