MacBook Pro

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MacBook Pro

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What's with Mac people suddenly going "8gb of ram is plenty" since the Neo came out?

It's just the price and segment. 8GB on a MacBook Pro (which, in 2024, had a starting price of $1,599 despite having only 8GB of RAM) is horrible, and was never OK. 8GB on a MacBook Neo (which, in 2026 has a starting price of just $599) is perfectly fine. 24GB should be the minimum in 2026 (for a pr

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maxsilver in r/mac

March 7, 2026 10:24 PM

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My take

I retired my Windows gaming PC for an M4 Max MacBook Pro last year. I have had very, very few issues with games, either natively or in Crossover. This thing's a screamer and I wish Apple would do something to encourage Mac gaming.

EvilDarkCow in r/mac

April 28, 2026 10:52 PM

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Notebookcheck | Apple MacBook Air 15 M5 Review - Very powerful, fanless and without competition

Ever since I got the 12” fanless MacBook back in 2016, I was completely sold on fanless laptops for my personal laptop at home. You don’t realize how annoying laptop fans can be until you use a laptop without them. Even the quiet ones… I can still hear the high pitched sound… bleh After my MacBook h

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Stingray88 in r/hardware

March 9, 2026 1:03 AM

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Here's How Much Faster MacBook Air Gets With M5 Chip vs. M4 Chip

It’s amazing how far Apple has moved me down the chip line. I started using Macs on a Power Mac G5 dual 1.8Ghz in 2004. At the time? That was just sort of expected if you were serious about photo or video. That G5 became a Core2Duo 24” iMac around 2008, which led to a 27” i7 iMac around 2013 which b

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FizzyBeverage in r/apple

March 7, 2026 8:23 PM

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Anyone try MacOS - and come back to Windows?

I use macOS, Windows, and a variety of Linux distros, sometimes on bare metal or in a VM. I really enjoy the integration of the Apple ecosystem and the battery life-to-performance ratio of my MacBook Pro M1 Max. When it comes to gaming or certain software products, I use my Windows desktop. The vari

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DarkImpurity in r/Windows11

January 13, 2026 11:48 PM

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I've reviewed hundreds of budget laptops, and the Apple MacBook Neo blows them all away

Most people don't know very much about technology so I don't think most people understand why the hardware is so good. We all know why the hardware is so good. We know about how they make it out of a single chunk of aluminum, how they have a system on a chip, how everything is integrated. We remembe

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longjumpingtote in r/apple

March 11, 2026 3:13 AM

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VLC demonstrates AV2 playback

Kinda funny seeing this running on what looks like a MacBook Pro, honestly. The thing is, this is AV2 we're talking about, the successor to AV1. Apple's already been pretty lukewarm about AV1 itself (they added hardware decode support starting with M3, continued through M4, and now M5, but still zer

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yosbeda in r/AV1

January 9, 2026 11:38 AM

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MacBook Ultra leak in iPadOS 26.5?

The most loaded MacBook Pro seems to be “ultra” enough. I’m not sure if Apple could go better than that

Legitimate-Art9462 in r/ipad

May 15, 2026 9:16 AM

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Apple's M5 Max Chip Achieves a New Record in First Benchmark Result

It's funny how the comments (in that forum) are always variations of "Well, not much improvement over previous generations" "The improvement over M4 max is only 14%? That’s not a lot. In the worst intel days the improvements are around 5%" People still don't seem to get that Apple isn't targeting "p

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jmnugent in r/apple

March 6, 2026 12:36 AM

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Porque los altos cargos usan Apple?

Hay gente que dice que es status, al menos en mi personalísima opinión personal puedo ver porque la gente se compra notebooks mac, tengo una MacBook Pro M4 Pro y yo no la cambiaría por una laptop windows por estas razones. La batería les dura muchísimo, a la mía la batería le dura fácil unas 15 o 16

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Ok-Avocado5861 in r/AskArgentina

April 4, 2026 6:20 AM

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