John Siracusa

If you get kids using a Neo when they're younger, as they become older professionals and maybe like, you know, this is my third Apple laptop.

Maybe I'll try one of those MacBook Airs.

They're going to notice, oh, this trackpad is actually a little bit nicer.

And they won't know what an ambient light sensor is, but like, oh, this one doesn't blast my eyes out.

Just like getting a bigger screen, you become more accustomed to the better thing.

But people could spend years just using the Neo and be perfectly satisfied with it until and unless their needs change or their budgets change.

So I think this is going to be an extremely successful product, assuming there are no...

you know no gates i guess like trackpad gate where all the trackpads break because apple's not used to making ones that move or like some crap like that like that's always a wild card out there but like you know going down like i think the m1 macbook air walmart has probably been really successful apple which sort of verified their like desire to do this like okay we can actually sell this let's do let's as you said marco let's own it and they are and i think this will be i think so we'll sell incredibly well and people are asking like who is this who can use this

I think pretty much any student can use this unless as part of your college major or whatever, you need to run demanding local stuff.

I was thinking about this for my kids.

My daughter could use this in her school.

She hasn't actually picked a major yet, but she's probably going to be

some major that wouldn't require lots of computing power.

My son was a computer science major.

And as part of his classes, he had to run VMs on his local machine.

And with an eight gig machine, if you're running like a Linux VM, plus running a bunch of Python stuff locally, maybe you're pushing it.

Maybe not.

Maybe it would be fine.

But like,

him having an M2 MacBook Air with more RAM, I think did benefit him in his major.