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Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry (www.pcmag.com)
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The Apple MacBook Neo's $599 starting price is a "shock" to the Windows PC industry, according to an Asus executive.

Hsu said he believes all the PC players—including Microsoft, Intel, and AMD—take the MacBook Neo threat seriously. "In fact, in the entire PC ecosystem, there have been a lot of discussions about how to compete with this product," he added, given that rumors about the MacBook Neo have been making the rounds for at least a year.

Despite the competitive threat, Hsu argued that the MacBook Neo could have limited appeal. He pointed to the laptop's 8GB of "unified memory," or what amounts to its RAM, and how customers can't upgrade it.

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[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is not a lot, but it is not that hard to extend storage. For example with an external SSD/HDD or a NAS.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Even if tethering any portable device to an external drive wasn’t wildly inconvenient, you would be giving up your only usb port on this thing

[–] xep@discuss.online 2 points 1 day ago

NAS over Tailscale is remarkably workable for non performance oriented workloads.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still doable, but you can't have external RAM. Hence, lack of RAM is a bigger issue.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

More than 8GB of RAM is unnecessary, and getting around that limitation does not require any action by the user.

Setting up a NAS + tailscale solution is doable but not worth the hassle for whatever niche use-case that would resolve.