John Siracusa

Um,

Yeah, they just removed it everywhere.

Like, no backlight on the keyboards.

Like, just everything they could, you know, just... They didn't just get it from one big place.

Because, again, like the SoC, like how much cheaper are we talking about this for?

How much cheaper is an A18 Pro than an M1?

I don't know.

30 bucks cheaper?

Like, it's not that much cheaper.

You need to get the cost from everywhere.

And they got it from everywhere.

And I think, unlike the 16E, the cost they removed here, I think they did a good job of...

spreading that around such that there is no one aspect of this that where you say like, this makes it a garbage laptop.

The closest I would come to say is the one that may be regretful is the, uh,

The trackpad, maybe that saved them a lot of money, but that really feels like Apple probably was like, oh, I wish we didn't have to do this because, you know, the niceness of the trackpads is one of the defining characteristics of an Apple laptop.

It just feels so nice.

It works so well.

And it's not like the, you know, they haven't always had haptic ones, but this is kind of like the 32 to 27 inch regression.

It's like, we're going to go back in time a little bit to a day when we didn't have

haptic trackpads which means that again when you click on it it opens up a little gap and maybe a crumb from your scone falls onto the trackpad and it goes like you know what i mean like having it not move is a actually a pretty big boon i'm you know i do wonder how many people are going to be taking these apart and finding crumbs in that part of the computer i mean i bet they're used to finding them under the keyboard but now they're going to be under the trackpad too because it opens up a