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Something I'm still curious about: can these new ARM Apple devices run arbitrary software? Or do you have to install things via the App Store only?
Could Apple someday decide that you're not allowed to install whatever software you want and only install their approved software?
They really said 'Cheap' and $600 in the same sentence.
They sell 4 wheels for $700. People buy it.
Apple Mac Pro Wheels Kit - Apple https://share.google/FCOp7IY3rKkfeIOth
"Adds improved mobility to your Mac Pro"
That's absolutely ridiculous. Easy to see how Apple got to where it is now if people actually pay this amount for this crap.
Easy to see how America got to where it is today too... Grifting is the only American culture.
8GB RAM? No.
You are not the target audience
If you know what ‘8GB RAM’ means you’renot the target audience for this machine.
As an IT person that's worked at schools for 20 years I can say this has no place here for us. Too underpowered for adobe products or composer products that our arts/graphics/music labs are interested in and too expensive to replace the Chromebooks that the students use. This is for the wealthy to give to their 4 year olds instead of a MacBook pro like they usually would have. Or a really good porn machine 😁
That's odd, because it is similar in performance to the M1 Air which is still pretty banging at basic introductory media production.
If you are running a proper production lab you aren't using $600 computers anyway, or you are economizing guerilla-film style. If you wanted to introduce 1080p NLE or basic DAW to incoming noobs, probably an okay device... but a lab should be using desktops anyway or your curriculum is badly broken. Definitely get minis if you're doing macs.
This basic laptop in a premium case with great battery life is for folks doing lots of admin or studying and running office, with Pixelmator or Affinity or other mid range production apps. It WILL run photoshop fine if you don't work on large files.
this laptop running Asahi would be a great entry level machine
This is basically Apple's version of a Chromebook. It's an iPhone in the shape of a laptop.
But it runs full macOS.
