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Comment by mohsen1

10 hours ago

$499 for education which a lot of target group would qualify.

A friend has M1 with 8GB of RAM (the old design!) and she's perfectly happy about it still. Bought it in ~~2019~~ 2020!

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mrweasel  10 hours ago

I have one of those, it's perfectly fine for everything I do. 8GB of RAM isn't a lot, but I've never run into issues with it not being enough.

The M1 and A18 seems rather similar, but I might be concerned that the integrated GPU isn't as capable as the one in the M1. I guess they picked the A18 because they make them and because the NPU much better and Apple cares more about AI than I do.

  • swiftcoder  6 hours ago

    > I might be concerned that the integrated GPU isn't as capable as the one in the M1

    This is the A18 Pro, specifically, which should have a faster GPU than the M1?

  • lostlogin  8 hours ago

    > Apple cares more about AI than I do.

    I’m not sure they do. They love their AI chip, but that might be where the live ends.

pwthornton  10 hours ago

$499 for general educational discount, but I am betting that school districts will get volume discounts above that. It's going to be very price-competitive.

  • asadotzler  1 hour ago

    They famously don't. Betting and guessing doesn't work well here. Best to ask the question instead of make the assertion.

  • adgjlsfhk1  10 hours ago

    I doubt schools will be getting this much cheaper. This is already a really aggressively priced product.

    • Imustaskforhelp  10 hours ago

      These are probably gonna have a decent resell value. Macbook products have a very higher resell value compared to say chromebooks/normal laptops.

      I can imagine schools buying them for their students and then taking them after the semester is over and then giving to next but also reselling it at a very nice value if they might want the next line of product at a decent price.

      Also this not only applies to school but normal people who buy the Macbook Neo too

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