Apple A18

It's gonna look horrendous, but it might be very lightweight.

Now, there's been more work on Asahi Linux, this time, uh, with patches to add in support for the A18 Pro chip and so also the MacBook Neo.

It's very initial support.

Basically, it's just a device tree for the laptop to enumerate all the hardware that it has and try to make it at least boot.

I don't know, I sleep talk every night, so.

The most Apple way possible, um, the secure enclave was actually part of M4 and A18.

They-

But this is an exclave.

Wow.

And a staggering double the sustained performance of the A18 Pro from just two years ago.

That kind of thermal efficiency translates directly to the battery numbers, too, which are just jaw-dropping this year.

The battery life is crazy.

The gap between the Neo and the entry MacBook Air narrows considerably while the price gap stays wide.

Reported A19 Pro gains are 10 to 15% on the CPU and up to 40% on the GPU over the A18 Pro.

So some speed and some enhanced returns thanks to the neural accelerators that in every GPU core that occurs in A19 Pro.

The under-discussed part, the thing that I don't talk about in the article, is 12 gigabytes plus.

It's 1.2K. It's 13-inch screen.

It's got the phone process, the A18 in it.

Only eight gigs of RAM, 256 gig hard drive.

It's $799.

other than the, the, the specifics with the chip set and things like that.

You know, one of the notes that I have is a two nanometer process offering 15 to 20% battery efficiency compared to the three nanometer in the A18 chip.

12 gigabytes of RAM and a five core GPU, though exact specs remain unverified.

You know, so there's a lot of things that we just don't know.

It's earlier repairable teardown as the most repairable MacBook in 14 years.

This one catalogs the individual chips on the logic board, confirms the A18 Pro package, shares its footprint information, designation with the version of the iPhone 16 Pro.

And just some interesting, if you really want to look into this and see what is in these parts and what they are, take a look at this article.

Oh, and they have, yeah, they have some

Key features rumored to be included are an updated Siri remote and enhanced Siri AI capabilities.

The new Apple TV is likely to feature a more powerful A-class chip, possibly the A17 Pro or A18, which would significantly boost performance.

Additionally, the inclusion of the N1 wireless chip will enable support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, enhancing connectivity.

These improvements are designed to provide a more seamless and intelligent user experience for streaming and smart home integration.

So yeah, it is a good article that talks about it.

The thing that is, I think the big issue is, well, basically because Apple's using an A18 Pro and it's an ARM chip, There's no processor compatibility issue running Windows 11 on an arm inside the VM.

So that's the good news.

The catch is really they keep each of these articles talk about the memory.

Trade-offs run the other way on the build and the chip.

It's plastic instead of metal.

And slower entry Snapdragon 10 against the Neo's A18 Pro.

So side-by-side spec comparisons were circulating this week.