[object Object]Mar 15
what do you call the psychological phenomenon where you hallucinate a human face onto a corporation like Apple and decide it must have goals other than profit maximization and exploitation
Show thread[object Object]Mar 15

“the macbook neo will usher in a new age of software tinkering” cool! so they finally rereleased HyperCard?

…no? ok fine, at least they published some new developer guidelines such that developers will need to ensure their apps run great on the neo for 8 years since it’s such a performance gap from the high end macbook pro they’re using to develop, right?

…also no? oh dear, how strange. the neo is starting to look a lot like the utterly obvious: an overgrown iPad for SaaS apps

Show thread[object Object]Mar 15
the macbook neo is a device that’s designed to normalize low-end devices as consumption-only SaaS clients. it’s the soft opening blow for the death of general purpose computing for anyone who doesn’t have a corporation’s budget for a $10k+ a pop pro laptop. the future looks like a macbook neo but more expensive, less powerful, and more locked down.
Show threadrpgwaiter
@zzt afaik the neo is more powerful than the m1 macbook that I daily for coding, playing runescape, admining servers, etc.
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Show threadNina KalininaMar 15
@rpgwaiter @zzt according to PassMark, A18 Pro is slightly faster per core, but M1 has better performance overall
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@nina_kali_nina @rpgwaiter that’s in line with the specs I pulled and had to double check cause I couldn’t believe them at first: by the spec sheet, the neo is almost the same as a 2020 M1 MacBook Air but with 2 fewer cores. the neo also cannot be expanded to 16GB of memory.

(for the screenshots, the first screenshot with the white background is the neo)