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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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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 172 points 4 days ago (72 children)

I can't speak for Macs. But in the Linux world, 8GB is fine. In Windows it's awful because of all that bloat. I'm guessing Macs fair better for OS efficiency.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (14 children)

I'm running Mint on an 8GB 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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (11 children)

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.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Get Sideberry for your sanity.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery

I literally have over a thousand tabs open in one window.

8Gb ram. Mint. 10+ year old pc.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah sidebery is the goat. I too have thousands of tabs open.

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