Apple's MacBook Neo has been a huge hit, and it's still in high demand over a month after it launched. The MacBook Neo is just $599, and with PC makers raising prices because of global RAM shortages, the Neo's low price tag and Apple allure are even more appealing. MacBook Neo orders placed today on the online Apple Store won't reach customers until May, which means that it's sold out for the month of April, as 9to5Mac points out.
  • fourish@lemmy.world
    3·
    14 天前

    No surprise really. For the price it’s a pretty great little machine. People who complain about the specs are just not familiar with Macs and are basing their comments on windows assumptions or are not the target market for this device.

    • Nobody@lemmy.world
      11·
      13 天前

      My concern lies squarely with the 8GB of RAM. MacOS has great swapping implementation, but swap is not magic.

      Inevitably, the OS and applications will get heavier, requiring more swap and therefore more disk reads and writes.

      8GB on phones isn’t bad as iOS and Android are designed to freeze and kill background apps quickly. As an app developer, it’s something you design around. But on a desktop, that’s not an option, apps should only be frozen and killed at the last moment to avoid locking up the OS.

      I’d be more comfortable buying an older/used M1 Mac with 16GB of RAM. And given that Neo and M1 are roughly comparable, they should hopefully be supported for the same length of time.