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John Siracusa

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

I'm not saying he couldn't use it, but I'm saying the M2 MacBook Air was a better fit for his needs.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

But that's only because he was a computer science major doing computer science crap on his computer.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Pretty much anyone else, can you write four years worth of papers on this?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Can you browse the web forever on this?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Can you do all your email?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Like, it will do all those things.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Because remember, when you're thinking about this, don't think of it as like, oh, it's a laptop with a phone chip.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Just think of it as the M1 MacBook Air, which used to be...

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

the best, most powerful MacBook era available and people bought it and loved it and are still buying it today all these years later.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So think of it like that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Don't think of it like, oh, how can I ever use a laptop with a phone chip?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Like I think, you know, and this is the beauty of this, you know, when you see those cost curves of like how much things cost over the past like several decades,

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It's usually shown to show you the healthcare line.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It's inflation adjusted dollars, percentage of your annual income.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

How does the relative price of these things change?

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

College and healthcare in our stupid country are going straight up like a rocket.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It's terrible.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Again, not in absolute values, but in terms of how much does it cost relative to how much people make.