GlyphMar 15

"Is the macbook neo good for Gaming" the Influencers howl, looking at multivariate equations including the price of RAM and the number of teraflops that a GPU can produce

you dolts, this machine is about to be in the hands of like ten million children. its price point means it is highly likely going to be The Computer for an entire generation. it already plays a huge catalog of casual games just fine. the demo units in the apple stores are all playing Apple Arcade titles with no difficulty.

Show threadGlyphMar 15

the entire video game industry rested on the Nintendo Entertainment System for an entire decade, a computer with 2 kilobytes of RAM when price-competitive home computers had megabytes.

the macbook neo is not a good choice if you are a competitive Valorant or a Cyberpunk 2077 streamer with a million dollars of annual brand deal revenue on the line. but it is going to change what "gaming" *is* for the actual public where game studios make their money.

Show threadGlyphMar 15
unrelatedly, as an owner of a Macintosh Computer Book (Professional) with 64GB of RAM, I am _psyched_ that Apple has implicitly made a promise that its operating system will be usable with only 8GB for at least 8 more years. this is absolutely my favorite computer that I will never ever use
Show threadcthos đŸ±Mar 15

@glyph I’m just slightly shocked at how replaceable the battery is.

Also global supply chain collapse something something.

Show threadGlyphMar 15
@cthos the shocking level of repairability also makes sense for a K-12 device. half of these things are going to be christened by a curious first grader pouring an entire bottle of coca cola on them to see what happens
Show threadDan Sugalski
@glyph @cthos I haven’t looked at the tear downs yet but I remember finding out that apple had, in fact, considered the “what happens if some dolt spills half a cup of coffee in his keyboard” case with the old white plastic MacBooks (the ones you could drop down stairs) and designed it so that the keyboard sat in a little water tight tray with the cable hole at the front top — coffee would pool in and if you lifted it up it’d just spill out safely. I suspect they’ve done the same with this one.
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Show threadDan SugalskiMar 15
@glyph @cthos not that I spilled multiple coffees on that machine. Or dropped it down stairs while in a backpack definitely not.