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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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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 30 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmings that focus on the RAM spec are telling on themselves. 256gb storage is the real travesty here.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It is not a lot, but it is not that hard to extend storage. For example with an external SSD/HDD or a NAS.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Even if tethering any portable device to an external drive wasn’t wildly inconvenient, you would be giving up your only usb port on this thing

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Still doable, but you can't have external RAM. Hence, lack of RAM is a bigger issue.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

More than 8GB of RAM is unnecessary, and getting around that limitation does not require any action by the user.

Setting up a NAS + tailscale solution is doable but not worth the hassle for whatever niche use-case that would resolve.

[–] xep@discuss.online 2 points 6 hours ago

NAS over Tailscale is remarkably workable for non performance oriented workloads.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Is it, though?

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you like to actually do your computing locally, it sucks. If you're using it for web browsing, the specs are great.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I do all my computing locally.

I doubt I have a system using more than 256GB on a system disk. There's 14 running in the house.

[–] pseudonaut@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You are a unicorn man doing everything locally is so uncommon these days it’s a small percentage.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

OK not EVERYTHING.