John Siracusa

Now there are some unknowns as we get to more of the specs of here, like, okay, but there's more to an SOC performance than just CPU, GPU, single core, multi-core.

Like there's more to it than that.

There's more of the whole system performance.

So we'll have to wait until somebody gets one of these and start to actually benchmarking it to know, because the phone is not a good stand in, in other ways, but just pure CPU benchmarks.

That's how I would characterize the 18 pro is it's M one ish.

Um,

ram is eight gigs there's no choice no other option it's just eight gigs is eight gigs uh you gotta save money somewhere but like i imagine that the main reason it's eight gigs is i don't think the a18 pro can handle more than 18 in eight gigs i don't think it's ever shipped with more than eight gigs i don't i guess they didn't modify it like so i'm guessing i mean not saying they

But they did just bump everybody up to 16, including the M1 MacBook Air.

They bumped up that configuration as well, although not the Walmart one.

But this has 8 gigs, and I don't think they're trying to do it to be stingy.

I just think, like, you can't do more than that with the A18 Pro.

The A19 Pro, I think, can do 12.

Yes.

So I suspect if you do see a bump in this, like next year or the year after or whatever, next time they make a new MacBook Neo...

with an A19 Pro in it.

I bet it will have 12 and not 16, but we'll see.

But, like, if you're disappointed about the RAM, I think it is a side effect of Apple deciding to make a low-cost MacBook and essentially being forced to use one of the chips that already exists, and that chip was never really designed to be a Mac chip, so...

either doesn't support more than eight gigs or it's difficult to get it to support more than eight gigs.

And that topic will come up in a little bit when we talk about more things.

Memory bandwidth, 60 gigs per second, which is one-tenth as fast as the top spec in five Macs to characterize that.