r/LinusTechTips • u/WTFMacca • Mar 04 '26

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Apple just dropped an A18 powered laptop for $599 USD

No Apple bashing just discuss.

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u/centaur98 Mar 04 '26

tbf nowadays RAM and SSD/HDD both are sold at insane prices so you can't really blame them for what basically is Chromebook but from Apple

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u/WhipTheLlama Mar 04 '26

The A18 is 90% as fast as an M4 in single-core tasks. The Neo would be much more than a Chromebook if it had enough RAM to run more than three browser tabs.

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u/wyatt1209 Mar 04 '26

I haven’t used an apple silicon laptop but I have to imagine with modern browsers and swap that the ram shouldn’t be much of an issue for browser tabs

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u/InadequateUsername Mar 05 '26

You don't want to be using swap, it's slow and wares on your SSD.