Windows PC makers typically haven't had to compete with Apple on the low end, but that changes with the Neo, says S.Y. Hsu. The memory shortage might complicate things, though.

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.

  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

    I’m running Mint on an 8BG laptop and I’m surprised by just how much can be running at one time. Right now I’m running Firefox with 10 open tabs, Waterfox with 8 tabs, Thunderbird, Keepass, Calibre, Signal, a Whatsapp client, Syncthing, Libreoffice Writer with 2 open docs & Calc with 2 open small spreadsheets, a couple of terminals and Gedit, and didn’t even notice it until came across these comments. A friend who uses Windows 11 says 32GB is recommended now.

    Microsoft must be thrilled with age verification being required at the OS level. What a great way to lock people into their Microslop garbage.

    • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      on my work PC at the moment (lovely little AMD 5700u mini-pc with 16Gb ram) I have a debloated LTSC build on W11 and two profiles of firefox running with a total of 25 tabs, a couple of them are more complex web apps but most are static pages, plus a couple of file browser, an old dumb custom invoicing app we use (~2003 application so its very light) and a VNC viewer with another machine running.

      7.9gb of ram use.

      it’s not that bad really, I mean it’s a lot for just mostly websites but we know they arent as light as they used to be, 8gb would be too little since I need some dedicated for Vram as I run 3 displays but I certainly dont need much more than 16.

      I did have 32gb in this machine at first since I was doing some light photoshop and basic CAD/CAM, but it very rarely exceeded 16gb, so I cut it back and it’s been absolutely fine.

      If you give windows more ram, it will use more ram as a baseline of course, unused ram is wasted ram.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      Right now I’m running Firefox with 10 open tabs,

      Oh…I guess I’m the only one who opens firefox, and literally thousands of tabs.

      One day I closed one window and it said “Are you sure you want to close 158 tabs?”

      I said yes. It was one window. I had 23 more windows.

      • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Literally thousands? Have you tried bookmarking things after they’ve sat unused for awhile?

        I typically just periodically save my browser windows with a tab manager extension. I just say because thousands sounds like way too much to keep track of…

      • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        When I get to 20 or so I have to start closing some tabs to keep track of things. How do you find the tab you’re looking for when you have that many open?

        • masterofn001@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Tab search.

          Tab groups.

          Color coding.

          I use sideberry addon on Firefox and workspaces in Vivaldi.

        • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Zen (firefox (gecko) derivative, No AI, focus on decluttered interface) has bloody excellent tab management these days, workspaces, folders, horizontal tab lists (like sideberry), essentials (tab icons pinned to the top), auto unload, all built in, and everything disappears when reading a page.