John Siracusa
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And it's still nicer with a PC laptop.
So we should ship it.
And so there's no one there to say, no, I'm never going to ship a Mac without an ambient light sensor and a haptic trackpad.
Now that those things exist.
But I mean, if whoever that was who was doing that, whether it was Steve Jobs or somebody else, they're no longer at Apple.
Current today's Apple is correctly, I think, deciding to take advantage of essentially the dividend of computing power, outpacing a lot of common tasks and go down market with the Mac.
And I think they're going to sell a lot of them.
I think it's a good idea.
And might have more pixels than this computer anyway.
And that's great.
And a giant battery.
Because no one has a local computer with that much RAM.
You can't have hundreds of gigs of RAM or whatever.
The compute needed to do the current hot thing, which is AI, that just doesn't exist.
It doesn't exist on a desktop.
It doesn't exist on a laptop.
It's just not feasible.
There are lots of useful local models, and Apple does run them, and they do useful things, but the bleeding edge is so outside the realm of...
of a battery powered laptop currently that it's all server side.