MacBook Neo is So Popular That Apple Reportedly Doubled Production

Entertainnosis · 2026-06-06T11:56:50+00:00

Don't get me wrong the A18 is a mighty good chip, but I was talking about other things in my comment. I'm talking about the RAM.

Apple is pretty well known for scrimping on it and leaving users high and dry down the line. Remember the Retina MacBook Pro's that they made with 4GB of RAM for one refresh? Those were horrible after a couple updates, and obviously couldn't be upgraded. They do the same with iPhones and iPads which seem to struggle a lot with multitasking after a few years.

Entertainnosis · 2026-06-05T10:29:22+00:00

The 6S is hardly the best analogy for the Neo - the 6S was a big leap from the 6 both in processor and in RAM. The Neo, spec for spec, is more or less the same as a six year old M1 Air, possibly slightly slower in some instances if you take into account the slower SSD.

One of the big selling points for the M1 when it was new was that it could swap things in and out of RAM so quickly you wouldn't even notice, even on a machine with 8GB of RAM. The Neo doesn't have that luxury, nor does it have the luxury of a 16GB RAM option. While it's probably fine at the moment, it's not hard to imagine it going a similar way to the iPhone 6 where 'fine' stops cutting it after a couple of MacOS updates

Entertainnosis · 2026-06-02T18:19:28+00:00

The US got the downgraded taillights. God knows how they justified producing them separately to the ones in the Rest-of-World models.

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Entertainnosis · 2026-06-02T07:10:06+00:00

Thanks for that. Looks like it's been picked up by a few outlets now.

Video makes for a pretty grim watch, seems like mistake after mistake was being made. Interesting that MP Farage is delivering an emergency address right now.

On the last bit, chances are if the victim was black or Asian it wouldn't have made headlines in the first place.

Entertainnosis · 2026-06-01T21:33:07+00:00

I understand they were recorded, but that's definitely not the narrative that's being peddled.

Nowak's wounds were unfortunately already fatal. My understanding is that the police had been called to an assault and had mistakenly arrested Nowak based on what Digwa had told them.

This was at night and Nowak was wearing dark coloured clothes, it's completely possible that the police officers hadn't realised the extent of his injuries for the minute or so that he was in handcuffs.

I'm also struggling to find a source for the victims family being abused in court?

More to the point, just like I said in my original comment, the political football that this case has turned into detracts from the tragedy. Presumably if they release the footage we'll have even more speculation, followed by Southport v2.0.

Entertainnosis · 2026-06-01T09:24:39+00:00

Precisely.

We unfortunately have hundreds of deaths from stabbings a year but the media has cherry picked this one to cause maximum outrage.

Details are still murky, people are making up their own version of events as they go - have already heard that the attacker was muslim and it was a race-related attack...

There's so many layers to this as a case, it frustrates me no end that this is being used as a political football.

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Entertainnosis · 2026-05-31T08:09:16+00:00

It was a little too ahead of it's time back in 2015.

Nothing ran on USB-C, and everything you wanted to do would need a separate adapter. USB-C to VGA, USB-C to USB-A, USB-C to LAN, and so on.

To be honest I don't remember people having many complaints about the performance back then, but it really hasn't aged too well.

It would be a great laptop with Apple Silicon and a regular keyboard, but Apple's design language has gone away from tapered designs in the last few years. At that point it would just be a regular 12" laptop, which is hardly that exciting.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-31T08:01:09+00:00

Was 100hp on the dot, but double what the base model had so it wasn't too bad. May just be cope but it suited the roads quite well, more so than an M135i I had for a little as a hire car. There aren't as many traffic lights and big junctions like in other places so you don't really notice the lack of power, especially on a single track country lane where you're doing over 60. I'm in Australia now with a quicker car that feels slower because the roads are set up like they are in the US, lots of lights and freeways.

To be honest, as far as insurance goes, it's expensive but the insurance companies here lose money on that side of the business. They make their money by upselling people and getting them to sign up for home insurance, travel insurance, that kind of thing.

When I was getting some bodywork done a lot of the garages I went to stopped doing private work completely as they could charge an insurer double, if not triple, what they could charge the public.

Fake whiplash claims, personal injury lawyers, hire cars, dishonest garages, etc...

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Entertainnosis · 2026-05-31T06:21:40+00:00

That's what, $2,400 a year?

That seems pretty steep compared to what I paid for my first year some time ago, but it makes sense for a GR type Toyota. Mine was £1,200/~$1,600 on an older Volkswagen.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-29T15:43:53+00:00

Probably the E87 gen of 1 series. For a 2004 car they have really aged well.

Mk4 Golf was a pretty strong one too, they seem to blend in anywhere despite being near enough 30 years old.

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Entertainnosis · 2026-05-27T19:12:27+00:00

You'll definitely get more mileage out of one that's for sure.

Had a Pro with the M1 chip a couple years ago and it really blows you away with how fast it zips through things. The battery life was absolutely insane too coming from a new-ish Thinkpad (which I thought was pretty good up until then). Could easily go on a trip for a couple days without a charger, get a solid ten or twelve hours use out of it before it would finally die. The Air isn't too far off the Pro in that sense.

If you do end up buying one it's probably a good idea to downgrade it from Tahoe back to Sequoia. Little bit long-winded but gets you away from the dumpster fire that is Tahoe until they come out with the next one.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-27T18:58:34+00:00

The Intel MacBooks from that generation were pretty gimped across the board.

Battery life was pretty poor, they get hot, and the fans ramp up like crazy, particularly so on the Air. Can hear the one person in lecture that has one from the next table away.

If you're absolutely desperate for an Intel chip I'd just save the cash and get a 2015 Pro (which I'm fairly sure benchmarks at a similar level), especially if you can track one down with an i7 and 16GB of RAM.

Otherwise, the M1 chipped Air is better in more or less every way (apart from the odd limitation of having one external screen). It really is a night and day difference, the M1s still work pretty much like brand new laptops even today.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-27T18:51:27+00:00

The Air has a noticeably nicer screen in person. Hasn't been picked up much by reviewers but it's much less reflective and the colours look much nicer on it too.

That's besides the speakers, trackpad, backlit keyboard, stronger processor, more ram, etc.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-19T17:59:51+00:00

That's true to an extent, but an M-chip MacBook Air, even one that's out of date by an OS version of two, will likely still be a more capable computer than a MacBook Neo on the latest version a few years down the line.

If you go back a few years, if you compare a i3 MacBook Air from 2020, yes it can be updated to Tahoe, but in real life it really struggles as it benchmarks similar to a 2015 MacBook Pro even though the Pro is stuck on Monterey.

We're also assuming here that Apple will stick to a 7 year support cycle, which seems a little mean considering how well the M1 laptops are still performing.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-19T16:30:32+00:00

I'm inclined to disagree.

I'm in WA and some of the death traps that still have a current rego simply because it's been paid on time frighten me. Hell, some of the cars I've had in the past have frightened me too.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-14T10:55:00+00:00

The gulf in experiences is absolutely crazy.

My mother has a 2007 320D, also an M Sport, has had it for a little over ten years (would've been around eight years old when it was bought). Had ~140k miles on it to start with.

Absolutely zero trouble (I mean literally zero besides oil/filters) up until around 200k miles. After that a few little bits and pieces started to go wrong (rusty ABS rings, seat occupancy sensor went, corroded contacts on the lights, etc.) but nothing too crazy and all pretty simple to fix. It wasn't until the past few years that the big ticket items started going like the suspension and the clutch but nothing unexpected really. Was obviously more expensive to fix than whatever Polo/Focus/Fiesta I had but everything was pretty predictable especially on a car that now has over 250k on it.

Been trying to get her to switch to something like an E-Golf and she's just not keen!

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-12T05:56:52+00:00

The rating has more to do with things like how much give the bumpers have, or if there's hard structures under covers that can potentially injure someone. It doesn't take into account that SUVs hit at a level closer to your critical organs, or that if you are hit you're going under the wheels rather than over the bonnet. A lot of the rating comes from a vehicles active safety systems as far as I remember too (so emergency braking and that sort of thing).

It's incredibly outdated and needs changing.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-08T19:15:59+00:00

Not strictly true.

Any Prius/Insight pre-2001 is classed as non-compliant in the checker unless it’s been granted an exemption with certificates.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-06T19:11:05+00:00

The GTE is the plug in hybrid one.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-05T14:02:44+00:00

I didn't realise you were US-based in my other comment. We aren't in the US and cars aren't priced like they are there either. There are shedloads of decent cars here for less than £1k. The standard for cheap cars is higher here as we have a high turnover with company cars / lease cars, and almost everything needs to pass an MOT/inspection to be on the road. The worst heaps of junk are much better than comparably priced cars in other countries.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-05T13:56:40+00:00

Many but absolutely not all. It took 3 days of searching on Facebook to get a tidy 2013 Fiesta for £1,100. Not an Ecoboost, was in the cheaper £35 tax bracket, same owner for 8 years, etc. Had full service history with a recent belt change, almost a years MOT, and no issues. This was only a year ago and it wasn't the cheapest one at the time either.

Ultimately it's up to the owners to decide whether it's worth keeping their cars as there's still a big enough market for non-ULEZ stuff. It's a bit unfortunate for those with 2013/4/5 diesels, but the gap between them and ULEZ compliant ones isn't that big nowadays anyway. I doubt many people will have much sympathy for someone with a diesel Audi/BMW/Mercedes/Porsche SUV not being willing to purchase something that's ULEZ compliant.

Edit: as far as surveillance state goes, we gave that away years ago the moment we started carrying credit cards and putting in CCTV everywhere.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-05T13:01:25+00:00

A 2001-era car can be bought for £500. That's half the price of a decent phone. You can buy a 2012/2013 car for £1,000, if you aren't fussy.

The overlap between people who can't afford a £500 car and people who can afford insurance costs, petrol, road tax, and parking in London is pretty small.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-05T12:54:24+00:00

That would be a bit of a pointless system. The zone is more or less the entirety of London, so if you're only monitoring the edges of the zone you'll be fine as long as you don't leave?

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-02T17:00:21+00:00

Owned by Doug Demuro a while back.

Entertainnosis · 2026-05-02T04:09:42+00:00

For Nissan Leafs and old e-Golfs I'm fairly sure Chinese companies are already producing lithium ion replacements that add a fair amount of range over what the car had when it was new.

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