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minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·3 days agoIn addition to being more locked down, you’d also have to figure out/purchase peripherals like the keyboard and mouse yourself, right?
minus-squareag10n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down2·3 days agoIt’s an iPhone 16 with a MacBook shell
minus-squareParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 hours agoI mean if by shell you mean KVM then yes. It’s a pretty good price for those peripherals plus the low end phone though
minus-squareag10n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·19 hours agoI wouldn’t consider it low end, early benchmarks put it in the range of M1 which surpasses Intels N-Series. IMO it’s the perfect typewriter/frontline worker machine when personal computing is getting more expensive by the day
minus-squareParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·15 hours agoYeah sorry I was thinking more of the other specs than the chip itself. As you say, a pretty good little A chip, I suspect the first real go to market one given M comparisons. Perfect as you say for heavy keyboard users.
In addition to being more locked down, you’d also have to figure out/purchase peripherals like the keyboard and mouse yourself, right?
It’s an iPhone 16 with a MacBook shell
I mean if by shell you mean KVM then yes.
It’s a pretty good price for those peripherals plus the low end phone though
I wouldn’t consider it low end, early benchmarks put it in the range of M1 which surpasses Intels N-Series.
IMO it’s the perfect typewriter/frontline worker machine when personal computing is getting more expensive by the day
Yeah sorry I was thinking more of the other specs than the chip itself. As you say, a pretty good little A chip, I suspect the first real go to market one given M comparisons. Perfect as you say for heavy keyboard users.