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Kuo: Apple to release cheaper MacBook powered by iPhone processor (9to5mac.com)

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[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

This would unironically appeal to me. I’m not spending huge dollars on a MacBook for a glorified terminal/browser machine. Not saying they’re bad, just that my use case doesn’t require that much horsepower.

For more strenuous tasks I have a full tower PC that’s decked out but having something sleek for on the go that works with the rest of my portable items (AirPods, iPhone etc) would be nice.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Makes perfect sense to dial the horsepower back. For the last ten years Apple’s software has been visibly incapable of taking advantage of the hardware it’s installed on.

iPads could run macOS, easily.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

Macbooks are already underpowered

LOL what?

known as a meme among the gaming community

That has nothing to do with processing power.

This is not some cheap chromebook

It could be? We don't know. I mean it probably won't be cheap but it'll also probably be a lot cheaper than a MacBook Air.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Dunno, have you used Win11? I have. It led me to uninstall windows

[–] accideath@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean yea, they’re a joke among the gaming community, because they’re Macs. They’ve been getting better at gaming than they were before but they’re decidedly not gaming machines. Most games don’t even run at all. For productivity work (and definitely day-to-day tasks like browsing the web) they’re definitely not underpowered. Even the worst, 5 y/o AppleSilicon (i.e. ARM powered) Macbook is a very decent daily driver and machine, even capable of light video editing, animation, coding, etc. (I would know, I have two and work in media)

And iPhones are far from being underpowered (for phones) either. Quite the opposite, being at or among the top of the phone-chip leaderboard for years now. The current A18 chip benchmarks similarly to a M1 chip in CPU and much higher in GPU workloads.

A cheaper MacBook with a lower powered chip would absolutely make sense. Of course, given they hit a competitive and affordable price point. This has the possibility to get much more people to buy a MacBook, not less. A brand new 600-700€ MacBook that has the same power as an M1 would absolutely sell like hot cakes. Heck, even used M1 MacBooks still sell very well on second hand markets.

And btw, proof that lower powered AppleSilicon Macs would totally work already exists. The dev kit that released before the M1 processor was powered by an A12Z iPad chip. It’s much slower than any current AppleSilicon Chip (and any M series chip) and even it performed perfectly well as a platform to develop and test apps on until M1 arrived.

But yes, it won’t be a gaming machine beyond the casual market. But for a student or as a family laptop, or anyone who just doesn’t need a whole lot of power…

[–] miguel@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, but hear me out - what if it could play all of the ipad/iphone games AND steam games with full desktop controls like mice? That'd be interesting :D

[–] accideath@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, in theory, you can already do that on AppleSilicon Macs. In practice, Apple’s Windows translation layer („Game Porting Toolkit“) isn’t particularly good yet