John Siracusa
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I'm not saying he couldn't use it, but I'm saying the M2 MacBook Air was a better fit for his needs.
But that's only because he was a computer science major doing computer science crap on his computer.
Pretty much anyone else, can you write four years worth of papers on this?
Can you browse the web forever on this?
Can you do all your email?
Like, it will do all those things.
Because remember, when you're thinking about this, don't think of it as like, oh, it's a laptop with a phone chip.
Just think of it as the M1 MacBook Air, which used to be...
the best, most powerful MacBook era available and people bought it and loved it and are still buying it today all these years later.
So think of it like that.
Don't think of it like, oh, how can I ever use a laptop with a phone chip?
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,
It's usually shown to show you the healthcare line.
It's inflation adjusted dollars, percentage of your annual income.
How does the relative price of these things change?
College and healthcare in our stupid country are going straight up like a rocket.
It's terrible.
Again, not in absolute values, but in terms of how much does it cost relative to how much people make.