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Apple is reportedly working on a $599 MacBook with an iPhone chip to rival Chromebooks (www.neowin.net)

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (40 children)

Is this the company with the Nazi salute CEO, or the bend the knee CEO who gave a golden trophy to Smaug?

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As long as it has 16 gigs of ram it would be perfect for most users. Unfortunately I feel like it's going to be gimped to only 8, maybe 12 if we're lucky.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think 8 is optimistic.

[–] misk@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

One good thing to come out of AI bubble is that all iPhones have at least 8GB of RAM.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cheapest iPhone is the same price as this laptop. I suspect they have to cut into their margins in order to make this laptop.

[–] misk@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are easier ways - getting rid of modem, replacing OLED in favour of LCD, maybe even non-metal shell. They won’t cut RAM because it’s required for „AI” and we’re still in that hype cycle.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

The 1199 15” Macbook air doesn't have an OLED.

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Why not just make the iPhone run macOS? Plug in to any monitor, mouse, and keyboard

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Because then you wouldn't have to buy two devices.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Dream on - it’s taken until now for them to add proper windowed multitasking on iPad. It’ll be a cold day in hell when they put anything even approaching macOS on iPhone.

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[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

computers so fast I probably want a maxed out (at least 24GB) one of these and make it my main.

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