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The Tech Radar podcast crew discusses Apple's brand new MacBook Neo. Powered by the A18 Pro chip from the iPhone, they debate its performance, potential limitations like 8GB of RAM, and why the price point is the most crucial factor for its success.
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00:00Neo has Apple's A18 Pro chip, which is the same processor they used in iPhone 16 Pro.
00:06The A18 Pro, it's not like a replacement for a low-end, like the chip you get on Chromebook,
00:12or even an i3 that you'd get on maybe a low-cost Windows system. This is going to be a
00:18more
00:18powerful chip, and I think it's going to be a more powerful system. The question is,
00:22how much more powerful? One key to that, one clue, is the 8GB of RAM. That will probably be
00:30one of the largest limiting factors, second only to the storage space, 256GB of storage.
00:38I think it does feel a bit weird for it to be the chip that's in your iPhone.
00:41I think it's almost a flex, to be honest, to be like,
00:44we can build a laptop that's going to be this powerful, but using an iPhone chip.
00:48I was thrilled to see they had hit that price point. We were all standing there before the
00:52event, and I remember somebody said, oh, $6.99. Then someone else said, I heard $7.99. I said,
00:59look, if it comes in at either of those prices, it's a meaningless product. No one's going to care.
01:06I said, they have to break the mold here. If they don't come in at $5.99, people are not
01:10going to get
01:10excited.
01:10It's literally the perfect product for someone like my sister, who's like college age,
01:15just wants something to be able to send emails and do work, and it'd be a new shiny Mac. And
01:20you're
01:20smart in that it looks, it doesn't look cheap. I think the colors are smart in that it makes it
01:24seem accessible and fun.
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