Will MacBook Neo be the death knell of budget mid-range Windows 11 laptops?
isn't it competing with chromebooks?
>>108419715No, sir, not at all It is absolutely devouring most of the Windows ultrabook laptops even in the $700 range!
Hopefully it will force the electron and webkit devs to optimize since there will be a huge installed base of 8GB systems.
next year when it comes out with the a19 pro and 12gb ram its over
>>108419744+backlit keyboard (hopefully)
>>108419715Not really, unless you install a proper operating system on your Chromebook, but even with a Linux of choice on it most of them are dogshit in one way or another.
>>108419872they are competing with the type of people who don't run anything else on their computer anyway. it's not really powerful enough for anything else (does this explain all the iphoneification of mac os x?)
you make the common mistake. macfags are not techies. they are not gadget normies. they are macfags. they like the brand. they like the logo.
>>108419963Great picture! Thank you for sharing.
>>108419544do people really call laptops PCs? i thought that term was used for work desktops only. i'll never buy a laptop.
NoHowever it did contribute to Microsoft's latest apology blogpost going "fuck fuck fuck guys don't go, we'll give you what you want come back!"
>>108419963That tank looks like it's made out of plastic.
>>108420955Seoulite cope
>>108419858You're delusional. They gotta keep it segmented otherwise they don't sell any Airs anymore.
>>108419544A lot of people use windows for the familiarity, but younger people might go for this
>>108419544I don't know. Only 8GB RAM feels very shit and inadequate but I guess if all you do is run 3 tabs in a browser it's going to be fine.
>>108419544Let's put it this way. Sub $1000 laptops never had any business existing at all, until the Macbook Neo hit the market. I really, sincerely wish a slow, painful death upon anyone working at Apple, or anyone using their products, but it is the only sub $1000 laptop that is even remotely usable.
Dam, do people not understand why most people get a PC instead of a MAC? Is it really THAT huge of a mystery?
>>108419544>fagOS
>>108419544Kek at all the third-world poorfag cope in this thread.
>>108421214It's not even on par with third-world computers (in real world use outside of geekbench) though, see >>108421150
>>108421232>carry your disgusting plastic acer brick to school and get laughed at while your back slowly gives up from the weight of it
>>108421270What does this have to do with technology?The macbook neo LITERALLY cannot compete with PCs from 10 years ago. GTX 1050ti PCs were considered POVERTY computers 10 years ago.>The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti was released on October 25, 2016. It launched as a budget-friendly, 75W TDP Pascal-based GPU, primarily sold through board partners (AIBs) rather than as a Founder’s Edition, with a launch MSRP of $139. >It launched as a budget-friendly>with a launch MSRP of $139.
>>108421287>What does this have to do with technology?If you weren't a disgusting spergy third-world poorfag, you would know.It's not just about numbers on a spec sheet.
>>108419744Will this finally be enough cranking amps to run picrel as fast as a GTX 1050ti gaming beast?
>>108419544Yup. This is a result of decade of overpricing and rent seeking by x86 eco system.Snapdragon could have eat up this segment if they werent retarded
>>108421349Mostly Intel shitting the bed.They literally were doing nothing with their billions for like 15 years.And AMD is always useless. Who knows - maybe conspiracy theories are true and they only exist as controlled opposition to counter anti-trust proceedings.
>>108419744>12gb ram its overBarely an improvement, desu. 16GB is the bare minimum, and even that isn't great nowadays.
>>108421287It's not meant to be a gaming machine, retard, so that's a pointless metric to judge it on.
>8gbIts ewaste already
>>108421457Obviously but not being able to match literal POVERTY gaming PCs from 10 years ago puts the whole value aspect into question.The macbook neo is great value... at running geekbench.
>>108421150Except I could actually play on a Macbook Neo on my lap on battery for hours, because it wouldn't get hot or use much power, whereas that broken laptop on eBay probably got too hot for lap use before it broke.
>>108421777>"OKAY OKAY, sure your diesel F-350 can haul mountains...">"However my Prius can sit in traffic for hours and still have 90% fuel left!"
>>108421841Not him but it's more like comparing a new hybrid to a 15 year old $3000 Toyota Camry.
>>108421150>MUH GAMES VIA A COMPATIBILITY LAYER ON A THIN AND LIGHT VS TWO INCH THICK GAYMUR LAPTOP WITH JET ENGINE FANS FOUND ON EBAY WITH PRE-CUMMED KEYBOARD AND CAT SHIT IN THE VENTSbuy a toilet Rajeeshalso, that’s the stats for a DESKTOP 1050Ti, not the mobile version. Now go take a train to the face like the rest of your kin.
>>108421497>Obviously but not being able to match literal POVERTY gaming PCs from 10 years ago puts the whole value aspect into question.And I'm telling you, again, that's a retarded metric to judge it by. You could just as well pick any other laptop without a discrete GPU and compare it against a poverty gaming PC from a decade ago, and that would be equally as retarded.
Why are third-worlders obsessed with playing games on a laptop? You just buy a desktop for that.
Ive been trying to find someone who shows how much the neo slows down during actual program development and how it would look in practice but all that these people on youtube do is edit videos, benchmark or play the first 5 minutes of a 10 year old game.Do macfags just edit videos, browse web and talk in meetings all day?
>>108419544“Budget” windows pc’s are simply scams at this point. Loud as fuck, thermal throttle almost instantly, low resources. Pieces of shit, absolute jokes. The pc market just preys on people who don’t know better. Who cares if a pc laptop has a gpu in it, it’s going to be power limited and it’s going to run like shit.
>>108420939Can it definitely be linked to Neo's launch?
>>108421440>t. RAM salesman
>>108421841Use case for hauling mountains?
>>108422263I'm just speaking from personal experience. I'm using 19GB (out of 32GB) right now (although, in fairness, I have a few IDEs open I could close, which would bring it down to ~16GB). I consider 16GB to be the bare minimum I'd be comfortable with, and 32GB is effectively the new standard baseline.
>>108419544They already died by destroying the value proposition vs cheaper Chromebooks.
>>108422198It won't slow down at all. What kind of performance do you think software development requires? Unless you're running a shitload of containers locally, you're not going to run into any problems.
You buy budget computers for ssh and email. No one is buying $100 netbook to game on.
>>108422198>Do macfagsYour brain is broken
>>108422445jetbrains' ides eat 4gbs of ram just by themselves. Add on a container, web browser and spotify for background music and you are already over the 8 gigabytes that the thing offers
>>108422427im a mac?
>>108422520I don't know a single jetbrains IDE that needs 4GB of RAM on MacOS. In my experience, it's closer to 2GB - I used to run IntelliJ on a trashpicked latitude with 4GB of RAM back in 2022.
>>108422051I bet you're (rural) American.You have no idea how small average third-world (or even European or big city American) apartment it.
>>108422557No, Windows (currently). I had similar issues with feeling like I had too little RAM @ 16GB on Linux, too.
>>108422466my gaming laptop is a $35 chromebooksit down
>>108422598NTA, but I live in a studio apartment and I still have room for an matx PC.
>>108419715It's competing with mid tier shitter laptops like HPs and Dells. Apple must be really desperate if they're willing to damage their high status brand reputation by marketing to plebs
>>108422598I'm a poor european and I have 5 atx desktops in my bedroom
>>108422656>>108422693You live alone.Poorfags live with their parents who would complain about energy usage and your ugly boxes ruining their decor.
>>108419544I am confused by this because there are cheaper windows laptops with more memory, storage, not needing an education discount and better battery life. The only downside of LNL and PTL-U is lower single thread performance
>>108419544buy an ad
>>108422865You are a third world jeetoid who has never set foot in Europe
