brendan (ジャンク品)macbook neo is $1 more than the base ipad + magic keyboard yikes
the macbook neo is gonna be an insane machine once asahi linux runs on it. macos is such a RAM hog even with memory compression
Cory W@bnys I imagine it'll probably be fine for it's target market?
IME nontechnical users are pretty decent at cleaning up tabs and quitting programs they're not using
As a fun data point Apple was still making-and-selling the 2020 M1/8/256 Air and selling it at WalMart for $699 until AFAICT just a few weeks ago
And, even with only 8gb of ram it seems like a pretty good deal if you can deal with 8gb of ram and need a Mac, in light of the ipad+keyboard costing within one dollar (lolol)
@bnys The other thing nontechnical people tend to do is not intentionally nerf/remove power, ram, and energy management settings, e.g. almost all modern browsers are pretty good about sleeping tabs and tossing the data from those tabs onto disk freeing up the ram.
(and I "need" 16GB+ of RAM because I turn that feature off much of the time.)
@coryw I want to agree with your points but macOS + Chrome is a bad combo for RAM use, and then a lot of people I know are terrible at managing their tabs. When tabs are put to sleep it'll take a while for them to come back on this device and I imagine users will feel like it's "slow" before too long. It'll be fine but not great.