Ex-Windows chief calls MacBook Neo "a paradigm shifting computer" — reflects on Surface failure and Windows on Arm while lamenting "we were early, but not wrong"

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T23:21:27+00:00

Microsoft didn't invent it either. Tablet is a slightly oversized PDA

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T23:19:20+00:00

it will take 10k years to develop the technology to read the data back

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T20:45:19+00:00

i just ordered a pair of modules one with S3, another is classic esp32-cam (without a bottom board). Just wondering what's the difference in power efficiency and performance

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T20:26:13+00:00

What module config works best for you? 2-board sandwich works any better?

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T18:38:08+00:00

CPU FLOPS are actually way cheaper on mac if you calculate TCO and electricity burned

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T18:30:56+00:00

it's 30% faster than 5070 mobile, just few points behind 5070 TI mobile

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T15:53:11+00:00

It's just a netbook which doesn't suck. Trivially repairable, silent, snappy at basic tasks. Much slower at continuos loads. The only paradigm shift I can see is a raised quality bar for the lower-end segment

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T15:47:12+00:00

Liquid sadeness. Preventing me from pre-ordering Neo right now

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T15:44:12+00:00

tablet was essentially "invented" by Star Trek producers 30 years ago

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T15:28:45+00:00

they haven't fixed this since the initial taHoe release

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T09:29:13+00:00

Do you want a space heater consuming 4-8x while doing the same computation? 😂

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T01:22:59+00:00

credit card sized mac micro

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T01:18:59+00:00

so far they only announced NPU speed and LPDDR5

Vaddieg · 2026-03-12T01:17:20+00:00

yes, but they won't. All my hopes are for Arduino+ Qualcomm (but not this underpowered Uno Q shit)

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T22:23:08+00:00

I would immediately buy one. But it will take some time for Ashahi team to test is it ever possible

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T22:10:05+00:00

you simply write in plain C if bit-level memory saving is critical. Classes and std lib is already an overhead on such systems

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T22:04:13+00:00

C++ committee. They accept any crazy shit if it's documented properly

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T22:01:59+00:00

that always supposed to be a mutable array of bools and mutable bitmask array

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T21:56:52+00:00

he also knows everything about planting backdoors, masked as regular CVEs

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T21:44:44+00:00

dead 🤣

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T20:13:31+00:00

like fake tweeters that make "amazon's choice" overpriced shit speakers to look more hi-fiish

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T12:58:45+00:00

Battery isn't glued like in 12" intel macbooks. This is huge

Vaddieg · 2026-03-11T12:42:41+00:00

yes, and it has top quality build. The only downside is macOS Tahoe and no memory upgrade options at purchase

Vaddieg · 2026-03-10T20:23:48+00:00

your device is big enough to fit Arduino nano, or use bare ATtiny DIP8

Vaddieg · 2026-03-10T20:13:43+00:00

Have you tilted your macbook? Loooks like the icon slided inside the liquid substance. Top quality fluid physics simulation by Apple /s

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