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A sample size of 15 doesn't really help man. It is also a very biased population: "I conducted a survey on a group of fifteen Digital Media majors to find out what their all-time favorite video games were."
He does that a lot, and he never admits being wrong even when you point out that his source says the exact opposite of what he thought it did.
This literally proves nothing other than Acrobat being a resource hog.
Woot. Thanks for doing that. Fuck Chrome. Because you know Chrome with four tabs open wouldn't just be 400MB
Honestly even the M1 chip is overkill for what the majority of casual users need as a processor but the architecture itself lacks some modern functionality.
My gut says Apple originally intended to launch the Neo with more than one ram option but dropped back to 8GB only because ram prices went nuts. I wouldn't be surprised if the original intended launch price was $500 instead of $600 for the base model, but ram and storage costs forced an increase.
Adobe has been caught doing AI training on users devices without their concent using their local work as training data, they have a pending lawsuit over it.
Is this the lawsuit over the author included in the SlimPajama dataset or something else? As in that case it was using pirated copies found online.
Who actually loads 30gb+ PDFs. Something crazy happening in that screen. lol
What's the default PDF tool on MacOS? I can't use Adobe Acrobat because Linux user, but I'm using whatever comes default with CachyOS. I don't actually know what it is but it works. As a normie laptop built for normie people, I think they'll use Acrobat, along with Chrome and Microsoft Office.
It wasn't fine before, so why is it fine now? The reason Apple went 16GB by default is because the backlash was hard.
There are two problems with the CPU. Three if you're like and hate ARM, but lets pretend that doesn't matter. First, this had better be as good or better than an M2. Apple was putting M2's in everything like tablets and their Vision Pro. I'm wiling to bet the M2 is cheap enough that it could be put into these Neo's. Second, the CPU isn't even current generation iPhone SoC. Would explain why one of the USB-C ports is USB2.0. A18 pro is not even the latest iPhone chip. At least no notch.
I'd assume Safari. The only time I ever see people using Adobe Acrobat or whatever is when IT demands it or for digital signatures
This is not really representative...I opened discord and haven't even entered any servers and this is my usage:
It's the same really, browsers gonna browser.Woot. Thanks for doing that. Fuck Chrome. Because you know Chrome with four tabs open wouldn't just be 400MB
the default PDF viewer is preview which is pretty useless.
Teams...lol, kills your battery and memory.
On my personal I have 10GB used and 300MB compressed and my work one 22GB used and 1,1GB compressed, not sure what the difference is since most of it is web browsers. I have safari open on my personal and firefox on my work but the other apps are the same (vivaldi, chrome, outlook, textedit, textmate). Perhaps it's because I just rebooted my personal where the work one has been on for quite a while.
I might be confusing the Adobe lawsuits with Adobe just being bad.
Apple selling out when they absolutely do not need to. The air was low enough. Maybe if they had limited it to k-12.
Its coming in at a much lower price point. In Canada the starting price on a neo is almost half the price of a Air.
One of the jobs I have at work could easily be done with one of these as all we need are a few spread sheets open, a couple of browser windows and an application that links back to a centralised database. The laptops for the task are communal so whoever is doing it that day just uses the same laptop. The only reason they couldn't easily switch is that the industry I'm in is heavily government regulated and the application that links back to a central database (glorified GUI) is only written for windows. Getting a ported version approved would probably take months/years.
Exactly, if people can cope with the steam machine having 8GB VRAM by saying devs will have to actually optimize to hit that market, then the Macbook of all things can do it as well.
Except the Chromebook market died. This is why Google is now moving forward with Android instead. This is more about taking market share away from Windows, and there's a lot better options with Windows machines.
That's copium. Developers are not going to develop applications with 8GB in mind. You're likely going to have to avoid multitasking on these devices, or at the very least just deal with it being 5x slower.
8GB of VRAM being equal to the Neo's 8GB is not a flex. That's just sad for the Neo, and the people who bought them.
I know this is a bit old, but I want to call this out as a poor bid at correcting an already huge mistake.
Let's not forget repair. Repairing a Chromebook is substantially easier than Mac of any type to repair. Students beat the hell of out of devices and being able to quickly swap a keyboard or LCD is important.
Remember "don't put tape over your webcam or you'll crack your screen"?
That just means that Chromebooks or now known as Androidbooks are going to not expand into the Windows market.
Even at $500 with a $100 discount, it doesn't mean will jump all over the Neo. You can still buy two Chromebooks for the price of one Neo. Though I will admit, the Neo is 1000X times better than any Chromebook. Though a cheap Windows laptop is also 1000X times better. I think the reason schools went with Chromebooks was because they were easier to lock down while also still being cheaper than Windows. There are plenty of dirt cheap Windows laptops.
