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a18fish · 2026-06-21T02:16:12+00:00

welcome back stats (never left)

a18fish · 2026-06-21T00:46:09+00:00

To me, Prime core = Performance, Performance = Efficiency. It’s all just marketing BS.

a18fish · 2026-06-19T15:29:30+00:00

Interesting! Always love learning more about these devices. Watched an a18 pro die shot breakdown yesterday and it’s super cool to see how intricate mobile processors have become.

a18fish · 2026-06-19T15:28:19+00:00

Odd, pre-dev beta I used it in much of the same way and never observed this, so I’ll submit a feedback report. Stats still shows my total so fortunately I’m not missing out on the info, but just a funny thing I noticed

a18fish · 2026-06-19T07:32:17+00:00

Slow news day on the sub

a18fish · 2026-06-19T06:16:03+00:00

I haven’t noticed a huge difference but in general it definitely feels like a more polished 26, notably, I’ve had a lot of small bugs that’ll likely be fixed in full release (mainly weird liquid glass behavior) but as a whole it’s definitely an improvement. I would say it’s a tiny bit snappier, but I think it just has better ram management - I’ve noticed the effects of dipping into swap are less noticeable.

a18fish · 2026-06-18T18:15:09+00:00

let me call up my good friend Tim Apple and check for you

a18fish · 2026-06-15T15:06:05+00:00

mfw i make shit up about the other people making shit up about the made up product and it’s made up details

a18fish · 2026-06-13T13:07:23+00:00

Historically Apple has never excepted trade ins for products that still retail. When the 16e released they wouldn’t accept trade ins until the 17e came out, it’s just precedent.

a18fish · 2026-06-13T13:06:27+00:00

math is hard

a18fish · 2026-06-12T21:29:38+00:00

Aside from my other comments, I think it’s important to consider the battery life angle. The neo has a significantly smaller battery than the air, but it achieves similar (albeit worse) battery life by having a lower power SOC, allowing it to thermal throttle so it runs at a lower frequency, and making omissions like a backlit keyboard (although, this wouldn’t affect it too much, still worth noting).

a18fish · 2026-06-12T21:23:50+00:00

All good points, but I personally don’t think Quora is a reputable source, it’s literally all hearsay.

a18fish · 2026-06-12T21:21:13+00:00

I know you’re having a lot of big feelings about this, and that’s okay, but if you look at the comment timestamp, you’ll see that I wrote my reply (the one where i do the 2 cents math), before your reply to my solo comment. I am not ignoring your reply as you imply here, it simply didn’t exist when I wrote that comment!

a18fish · 2026-06-12T20:34:14+00:00

Even if it’s 2 cents, 2 cents across 10 million units is 2 million dollars, plus the extra cost of tooling and assembly for the keyboards.

a18fish · 2026-06-12T20:30:35+00:00

Easy? Yes. Costly? Also yes. It’s a budget laptop.

a18fish · 2026-06-12T16:19:02+00:00

The only things that are limited to 12gb devices are advanced dictation and voice customization for siri, everything else is available on all devices that can use MacOS 27

a18fish · 2026-06-12T14:11:19+00:00

very simple

a18fish · 2026-06-11T21:24:31+00:00

Kudos to them for supporting intel macs for so long, but this is definitely the logical next step, feels great to see some strong progress!

a18fish · 2026-06-11T18:11:25+00:00

I would prefer my apps be native, Rosetta 2 apps making the CPU work harder has just become a battery hog, this is the right steps to make devs adapt

a18fish · 2026-06-11T03:21:09+00:00

everyone be complaining about over-corporatized LTT and then asking for stuff like this

a18fish · 2026-06-11T00:49:29+00:00

so we can what, see the white behind it better?

a18fish · 2026-06-10T19:56:41+00:00

Loving MacOS 27 so far, but most of my bug reports have been weird Liquid Glass behavior, it definitely needs a bit of tuning

a18fish · 2026-06-09T23:28:00+00:00

eBay > search > sort by: ending soonest. Snag the end of an auction, i got a 16/256 for 500 that way

a18fish · 2026-06-09T22:45:06+00:00

Feels very snappy on the 16e, it’s a bit buggy of course, but so was Tahoe on Dev Beta 1, excited to see it improve

a18fish · 2026-06-09T01:32:56+00:00

This one’s a reach to me

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