I’ve been shutting up through the majority of this round of Discourse online because I think the whole Mac Neo thing is distinctly pitched for murka-lowend or similar
I see maybe a couple of corp types here (ZA) try it out, and pull back in revulsion/failure. The price point isn’t especially a major winner/attraction point either afaict
My reasoning here comes in multiple parts. As already stated, I don’t believe the economics are as attractive as it might be elsewhere
Idly, with the world where it is right now, I don’t know how long it’ll stay attractive elsewhere either. How fast and how bad that’ll go, no idea, but I do see it as a risk
On the compute/resource side? Oh boy I’ve seen some weirdly hopetimistic takes
My current machine is a 16GB 2020-series m1 mbp, not even running Apple Ass. So I know *exactly* how that experience will end up turning out
And let me tell you: it’s a fair bit more limiting than you’d expect
Not that it’s going to be useless! The M1 is a stunningly impressive chip. I’m *still* quite surprised at what it can carry given the age. Power efficiency is great, I love it for what I gain. Part of why I’ve held onto the machine so long.
But I’ve also started feeling how a bunch more modern software feels
And I don’t for a second buy the argument that “being resource constrained” will make eg webdevs actually code for those things
Unless these devices take over entire markets at some extremely rapid pace (sufficient enough to have slow things be complained about at scale) nothing web/app dev side will change
We’re in a world awash in (consentless) product telemetry, and with many people (across third world) already on slow devices, and I have *seen* how app dev teams respond to that internally: it’s with derision, with disregard
If you want that dev to care, *they* have to work on one of these
JP
maxine 🇵🇸