alt Hacker News$499 for education which a lot of target group would qualify.
A friend has M1 with 8GB of RAM (the old design!) and she's perfectly happy about it still. Bought it in ~~2019~~ 2020!
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pwthornton • yesterday at 2:39 PM
$499 for general educational discount, but I am betting that school districts will get volume discounts above that. It's going to be very price-competitive.
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imranq • yesterday at 2:35 PM
I think it might be 2020 when the M1 was released since I remember i had bought a mac book in 2019 and it was still intel
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smugma • yesterday at 2:43 PM
M1 came out Nov 2020.
I have one of those, it's perfectly fine for everything I do. 8GB of RAM isn't a lot, but I've never run into issues with it not being enough.
The M1 and A18 seems rather similar, but I might be concerned that the integrated GPU isn't as capable as the one in the M1. I guess they picked the A18 because they make them and because the NPU much better and Apple cares more about AI than I do.