Post #1626160
2026-03-22 15:20 UTC
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@ross@hachyderm.io 2026-03-22 15:46
@truh @j404 @rootwyrm @graydon @cstross it’s really not that unrealistic for casual use. Until my daughter needed a laptop for school last year I was happily using a base M1 MBA for personal use (including coding and Lightroom). Yes, my new 16GB M3 MPB is faster but for safari and basic Photos stuff the 8GB M1 is absolutely fine.
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@Tubemeister@mstdn.social 2026-03-22 15:50
@truh @j404 @rootwyrm @graydon @cstross Nah. It's cutting it close for us nerds. I'm not in the market for a Neo either, though it'll probably actually do 90% of what I want. But my wife's been running a base config (ie, 8 GB) Air for a few years now and it's *fine*. Even with the obligatory 50 tabs open, it does ok. She would have absolutely been in the market for a Neo. $600 takes away the main pain point for a lot of people looking at Macs. And it comes in yellow, too. ;-)