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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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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

It can also do things and still use the same 6 gigs.

MacOS caches a lot. That memory is freed when it's needed for other things.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

No I keep seeing this "caches a lot" thing keeps getting repeated. Memory break downs already accounts for that. They shows the different break downs of ram usage. In use vs cached.

This is 6gb of inuse memory while the laptop is chilling. Cached memory is typically like 80% of whatever the ram is on your device. If you hit that 8gb your app is getting killed before the kernel kills a system process.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Okay I don't think you've actually used MacOS lol

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 11 hours ago

Ive got a stack of them right next to me. I work on them regularly. I know older versions of macOS are lean but Tahoe and Seqouia are noticeably heavier. Its not a problem because the devices running them have 16gb+ of ram. But I'm worried 8gb will impose contains on usage. I know it'll do basic stuff like run a browser but i think people are overestimating how capable this device will be.