On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 2:30 PM Albert wrote:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/apple-announces-its-cheapest-ever-new-macbook/ar-AA1Xwxu0?ocid=edgemobile
The benchmark for the A18 Pro chip is not bad, but a little slower than the M1 chip. For a low cost and likely low power laptop, I think that it will be terrific. On a phone this seems insane.
The 2017 Core-i7 iMac I sold had a benchmark of around 10,000. My 2020 Core-i7 model is around 19,000, but it has twice as many cores. These are power hungry computers compared to the low power RISC style chips that Apple makes.
