Mastodawn

"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.

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Glyph Mar 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.

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Glyph Mar 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

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cthos 🐱Mar 15

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

Also global supply chain collapse something something.

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Dan Sloan

@cthos @glyph This is on brand for apple; they’ll lobby to fight regulations like any other big tech, but once it passes or if it’s clear where things are going, they’ll get out ahead of it and turn it into a virtue (and then usually start telling people how great they are for adding this thing they were legally required to 😁). The European Union Batteries Regulation comes into effect in 2027.