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Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry (www.pcmag.com)
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The Apple MacBook Neo's $599 starting price is a "shock" to the Windows PC industry, according to an Asus executive.

Hsu said he believes all the PC players—including Microsoft, Intel, and AMD—take the MacBook Neo threat seriously. "In fact, in the entire PC ecosystem, there have been a lot of discussions about how to compete with this product," he added, given that rumors about the MacBook Neo have been making the rounds for at least a year.

Despite the competitive threat, Hsu argued that the MacBook Neo could have limited appeal. He pointed to the laptop's 8GB of "unified memory," or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can't upgrade it.

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[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 21 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

I mean, at its heart, Mac OS is a heavily re-tooled fork of the BSD platform, so it's not inconceivable that it's light enough to run on 8G. I doubt it would run well on 8G, but it could do it.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

MacOS' kernel is derived from Mach, though with with some BSD code, and is Apple's own work since then. Its API is compatible with FreeBSD, but it's not FreeBSD. And the FreeBSD userland tools don't have effect on systemwide memory management.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 37 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

My M1 MacBook Air idles at 1.03GB, my XPS 13 running Gnome on Vanilla OS idles at 2.4GB

[–] thatonecoder@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

GNOME on immutable distros = very bloated. Try antiX instead, as it uses a lighter DE.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Even a bloated GNOME runs with much less ram than Windows

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I’d be curious to see what Gnome looks like on Debian stable or the like

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

I’m not looking for anything lighter

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

It runs fine, unless you load up on chrome tabs, or try to run pro apps. Itdoes basic photo editing and admin apps and phone holiday video editing just fine for average users. I have a lot of clients with 8GB M1 machines.

[–] just2look@lemmy.zip 4 points 18 hours ago

I know it was lighter than windows the last time I used Mac, but that has been quite a few years now. Hopefully it is a decent machine. Computing just keeps getting more expensive, so having more budget options is definitely good as long as they are reasonably functional.