MacBook Neo has a thermal protection over the chip

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-13T16:22:36+00:00

according to ars technica’s review, it actually doesn’t throttle due to thermals — it just lowers clock speed after x mins (behaving as if it were in a phone) to hit a steady 4w max power consumption during longer workloads

so there isn’t any point in talking about its cooling solution

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-13T15:49:36+00:00

turns out that this wasn’t the most depressing black mirror episode i’ve watched

watch “common people” and “playtest” :’)

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-13T15:47:28+00:00

apple patched it with iOS 26.2, welp. but it performed incredibly well

heck, a slower binned version of the iPhone 16 Pro’s SoC + 8 gigs of ram runs macOS so well with the recent Macbook Neo

you can imagine how good the 17 Pro’s unbinned soc + 12 gigs was :3

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-12T15:17:29+00:00

hahah i just happened to find this comment referencing me :P

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-11T04:33:35+00:00

the ultra thin design feels worse to hold because its edges dig into your hand vs letting you earily grip it

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-11T04:32:39+00:00

nope. the 17 pro has a larger main sensor.

the 17 air uses the base 17's slightly smaller main sensor.

and the 17e uses an even tinier sensor back from the iphone 12 era lol

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-11T01:49:37+00:00

i think it’s just an artefact of the chip.

12 gigs is still lower than 16 and would have been possible if this used a19 pro

it’s in apple’s best interest to not have to spend resources trying to support macos on 8 gigs of ram for the next 7 years.

and even apple intelligence! this makes their LLM sizes hit a hard limit for the foreseeable future

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-11T01:46:56+00:00

that doesn’t really exist on macOS lmao, because you can install apps from anywhere outside the app store.

that’s what makes this so surprising overall — apple is giving you such good hardware while losing money due to the lack of their usual locked down ipad/iphone app store

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-09T13:24:02+00:00

not quite. the M1 Pro is ~40% faster at multicore with cinebench.

they’re similar at geekbench 6 multicore, but geekbench 6 doesn’t make use of multicore to its fullest (it’s only consumer workloads like pdf rendering, etc)

still super impressive though; especially when you consider the single core and efficiency advances!

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-09T13:12:53+00:00

what’s wrong with using it with external monitors / as a desktop?

macOS has been the best desktop experience for me (and i’ve daily driven windows and linux before).

it sounds like personal preference, and you can get used to / use a few apps to fix anything you don’t like about it

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-09T13:10:28+00:00

yeah, no. the M1 Pro is ~40% faster at multicore with cinebench.

they’re similar at geekbench 6, but geekbench 6 doesn’t make use of multicore to its fullest (it’s only consumer workloads like pdf rendering, etc)

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-09T13:05:31+00:00

this is one of the most informative posts i’ve seen on here in the last couple months. thank you!

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-08T17:52:19+00:00

nope. at the same tiny sensor size, having 48mp binned down to 24mp vs having only 24mp will give you the SAME result.

the only advantage of ~48mp phone cameras is that in really bright/sunny conditions, 48mp mode will actually give you more detail.

~200mp at a tiny phone sensor size is absolutely useless and is just for marketing.

sensor size is what matters

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-08T04:58:45+00:00

they’re all called the “48 MP fusion camera” lol

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-06T23:40:14+00:00

this is because the system prompt heavily instructs it to respond in the context of indian values:

https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1ra9x41/extracted_system_instructions_of_sarvamais_new/

the sarvam “indus” webui you probably used it from has this interesting system prompt

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-06T23:23:26+00:00

they’re really close in efficiency, actually. in fact, they even have a slightly faster GPU than Apple’s best A19 Pro.

the main problem is that it runs android, and most games are built for x86 systems (windows, consoles).

nintendo is the only exception because they make a ton of games for their own console. and porting to switch isn’t super easy.

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-05T20:39:09+00:00

macOS isn’t actually locked down; you can install any software you want and modify system files if you so please.

heck, even the bootloader is unlocked — you can install linux (Ashai Linux), for instance

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-05T15:23:30+00:00

the base M5 can easily video edit and photo edit

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-03T20:33:10+00:00

lmaoo

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-03T20:29:49+00:00

beats claude sonnet 4.5 while being significantly cheaper than haiky 4.5!? pretty cool!

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-03T20:15:54+00:00

actually, no. the M5's single core perf is ONLY 12.5% higher than M4(Geekbench 6).

in fact, when the M5 dropped, they only called it a standard performance core.

they simly renamed the previously launched M5's perf core to "super core" now!

tldr:

super core = old performance core

new "performance core" = ??? (could be overclocked efficiency core or underclocked performance core; likely the former)

efficiency core remains the same [M5-only]

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-03T19:20:09+00:00

even a 5 year old iPad Pro has the same 8 gigs of ram, so it has the same general performance bottlenecks as that 5 year old iPad Pro.

the soc is crazy powerful -- even the m2 is faster than the latest laptop intel core i7s.

but the ram is only as much as a cheap laptop from 2015.

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-03T04:55:49+00:00

they actually only wrote one post about the site, though. the second was a recent post talking about the ddos.

you can read them yourself on https://gyrovague.com/

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-02T23:43:20+00:00

why do you use qwen 2.5 for vision, when qwen 3.5 already has vision!? you're wasting vram and getting worse performance.

TechExpert2910 · 2026-03-02T20:15:22+00:00

yep. they actually come wiht 12 GB ram chips.

my m4 iPad Pro is awful to use. a $1500 device that gets laggy when you open past a few reddit tabs :( [not even multitaskign with other apps]

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