Before the 12" MacBook, before the 11" MacBook Air, there was the 9" ASUS Eee PC hackintosh, and there were a number of new-to-macOS developers in our community who learned how to develop for iPhone on this very setup, and started their careers from it.
The Eee PC 901 netbook was priced at, you guessed it, the same $599 as the brand-new incredibly-powerful MacBook Neo
@stroughtonsmith The Macbook Neo (2026) has the compute power of the iPhone 16 (2024) because it has literally the same SoC.
I wonder how the eeePC (2008) compares to the iPhone 1 (2007) in raw performance.
@adamrice @Peetz0r you can't remotely compare a Geekbench 2 result to Geekbench 6, but just for fun I can convert it. The most recent Geekbench 2 result I have is an iPhone 6, which I have benchmarked on GB5. And I can bench the MacBook Neo on GB5 too.
Neo: 2394
iPhone 6: 327
For a 7.32x multiplier.
So the MacBook Neo would be 17,868 in GB2 numbers, or 22.6X the performance of the eeePC, per core
(Naturally, you can't directly convert between GB results, but fun experiment)
Steve Troughton-Smith
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adamrice