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On paper the new Macs seem like Raspberry Pis with a fancy case and display.

oblib 6y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I have new Pi and it's pretty close performance wise to my old Mac Mini which is still a fine desktop PC.
- barrenko 6y ago
  Seriously considering getting a Pi for Christmas (8gb) as my current laptop is slowly dying, and just do python on it and return to a simpler life.
  - wukerplank 6y ago
    My 2012 Macbook Pro was also slowly dying. As a Hail Mary I opened it up, cleaned it and renewed the thermal paste on CPU and GPU. Now it's back to old speeds!
irmis 6y ago
so maybe we can expect raspintosh?
- rusticpenn 6y ago
  The new raspberry pi 400 ?
agakshat 6y ago
Plus a significantly more polished OS, which is the reason I enjoy coding on my Mac.
- wukerplank 6y ago
  I'm also a fan of macOS, but those hardware specs (RAM, SSD) were weak 5 years ago.
skavi 6y ago
There’s a fairly significant performance difference between Apple’s new cores and the Pi 4’s A72s. If you ignore that and the high-end display, touchpad, and keyboard, then I suppose it’s not too far off from a Pi in a fancy case, but then you could say the same for any laptop.
- wukerplank 6y ago
  The specs that irk me are RAM and SSD, even more since they started soldering them on. CPU & GPU were always kinda on par with the rest of the field.
jmkerr 6y ago
In 2012, the same Mac mini case held a cooling system for a 45W chip, 2x2.5" storage bays (or one storage bay and a DVD-Drive), 2 RAM slots, and had three more ports and a card reader. They really used every last corner. The new one is apparently half empty: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22027513/mac_mini_fan_gif.gif https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22027513/m...
- skavi 6y ago
  None of these new M1 devices will be densely packed. They’re putting smaller boards into the same enclosures. I assume next gen is when they will take advantage of space savings.

I was thinking the same thing. I have new Pi and it's pretty close performance wise to my old Mac Mini which is still a fine desktop PC.

barrenko 6y ago
Seriously considering getting a Pi for Christmas (8gb) as my current laptop is slowly dying, and just do python on it and return to a simpler life.
- wukerplank 6y ago
  My 2012 Macbook Pro was also slowly dying. As a Hail Mary I opened it up, cleaned it and renewed the thermal paste on CPU and GPU. Now it's back to old speeds!

irmis 6y ago

so maybe we can expect raspintosh?

rusticpenn 6y ago
The new raspberry pi 400 ?

agakshat 6y ago

Plus a significantly more polished OS, which is the reason I enjoy coding on my Mac.

wukerplank 6y ago
I'm also a fan of macOS, but those hardware specs (RAM, SSD) were weak 5 years ago.

skavi 6y ago

There’s a fairly significant performance difference between Apple’s new cores and the Pi 4’s A72s. If you ignore that and the high-end display, touchpad, and keyboard, then I suppose it’s not too far off from a Pi in a fancy case, but then you could say the same for any laptop.

wukerplank 6y ago
The specs that irk me are RAM and SSD, even more since they started soldering them on. CPU & GPU were always kinda on par with the rest of the field.

jmkerr 6y ago

In 2012, the same Mac mini case held a cooling system for a 45W chip, 2x2.5" storage bays (or one storage bay and a DVD-Drive), 2 RAM slots, and had three more ports and a card reader. They really used every last corner. The new one is apparently half empty: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22027513/mac_mini_fan_gif.gif https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22027513/m...

skavi 6y ago
None of these new M1 devices will be densely packed. They’re putting smaller boards into the same enclosures. I assume next gen is when they will take advantage of space savings.