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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by wukerplank on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:04AM (#25056156)
On paper the new Macs seem like Raspberry Pis with a fancy case and display.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by skavi on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:03AM (#25056414)
There’s a fairly significant performance difference between Apple’s new cores and the Pi 4’s A72s.

If you ignore that and the high-end display, touchpad, and keyboard, then I suppose it’s not too far off from a Pi in a fancy case, but then you could say the same for any laptop.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by wukerplank on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:55PM (#25062241)
The specs that irk me are RAM and SSD, even more since they started soldering them on. CPU & GPU were always kinda on par with the rest of the field.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by jmkerr on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:56AM (#25057922)
In 2012, the same Mac mini case held a cooling system for a 45W chip, 2x2.5" storage bays (or one storage bay and a DVD-Drive), 2 RAM slots, and had three more ports and a card reader. They really used every last corner.

The new one is apparently half empty: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22027513/m...

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by skavi on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:10PM (#25065138)
None of these new M1 devices will be densely packed. They’re putting smaller boards into the same enclosures. I assume next gen is when they will take advantage of space savings.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by agakshat on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:31AM (#25056258)
Plus a significantly more polished OS, which is the reason I enjoy coding on my Mac.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by wukerplank on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:47AM (#25056346)
I'm also a fan of macOS, but those hardware specs (RAM, SSD) were weak 5 years ago.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by oblib on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:08AM (#25056169)
I was thinking the same thing. I have new Pi and it's pretty close performance wise to my old Mac Mini which is still a fine desktop PC.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by barrenko on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:22AM (#25056518)
Seriously considering getting a Pi for Christmas (8gb) as my current laptop is slowly dying, and just do python on it and return to a simpler life.
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by wukerplank on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:48AM (#25056670)
My 2012 Macbook Pro was also slowly dying. As a Hail Mary I opened it up, cleaned it and renewed the thermal paste on CPU and GPU. Now it's back to old speeds!
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by irmis on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:31AM (#25056254)
so maybe we can expect raspintosh?
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by rusticpenn on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:06AM (#25056435)
The new raspberry pi 400 ?
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