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
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“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
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.
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@rpgwaiter @zzt according to PassMark, A18 Pro is slightly faster per core, but M1 has better performance overall
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@rpgwaiter @zzt according to PassMark, A18 Pro is slightly faster per core, but M1 has better performance overall
@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)
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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.
@zzt @fincham It is significantly more powerful than machines I still use to write code, write proposals, flash firmware, draw diagrams, manage infrastructure, read very strange takes like this. Do not take me for an Apple sycophant I do not like closed systems. But the narrative that you cannot compute without 64GB of memory serves no-one.
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@zzt @fincham It is significantly more powerful than machines I still use to write code, write proposals, flash firmware, draw diagrams, manage infrastructure, read very strange takes like this. Do not take me for an Apple sycophant I do not like closed systems. But the narrative that you cannot compute without 64GB of memory serves no-one.
@canllaith @fincham my guy please get off the soapbox and buy a used lenovo or a chromebook and put linux on it like a normal person
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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
@zzt
Anthropomorphisation?
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Holy shit, I spelled that correctly first go
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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.
if you’re considering a macbook neo or defending the macbook neo in my replies like a fucking weirdo, please do our environment a solid and get a used device that’ll outperform the neo instead
if available, a surplus thinkpad running linux will knock your fucking socks off, I guarantee it. it is the repairable, tinkerable, cozy system you imagine the neo must be.
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@ckfinite this reads like an ad and has so many factual inaccuracies that I’m somewhat convinced it is one
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if you’re considering a macbook neo or defending the macbook neo in my replies like a fucking weirdo, please do our environment a solid and get a used device that’ll outperform the neo instead
if available, a surplus thinkpad running linux will knock your fucking socks off, I guarantee it. it is the repairable, tinkerable, cozy system you imagine the neo must be.
@zzt
My load-bearing 9-cell battery can beat your dented aluminium case that renders the USB-A port nearly unusable*.
* I've had this exact problem with my secondary school Elitebook (8th gen i5) -
if you’re considering a macbook neo or defending the macbook neo in my replies like a fucking weirdo, please do our environment a solid and get a used device that’ll outperform the neo instead
if available, a surplus thinkpad running linux will knock your fucking socks off, I guarantee it. it is the repairable, tinkerable, cozy system you imagine the neo must be.
believe it or not you don’t need to buy a brand new device that’s, by both its spec sheet and benchmarks, less performant than a 2020 MacBook Air, in the opening stages of a global economic depression
you don’t actually owe these capitalists your attention, your free advertising, or your money. they do not give a shit that you’ll be the goodest little consumer and use your neo to make cozy little indie games and ssh into servers and program mcus and post on fedi. you’re invisible to them.
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@zzt
My load-bearing 9-cell battery can beat your dented aluminium case that renders the USB-A port nearly unusable*.
* I've had this exact problem with my secondary school Elitebook (8th gen i5)@zzt
wake me up when CoolerMaster, Lian Li or the International Coalition of Gadget Dads drops an ITX laptop kit and conquers the CAD/gaming laptop market overnight -
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