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John Siracusa

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Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And it's still nicer with a PC laptop.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

So we should ship it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

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.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Now that those things exist.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

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.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

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.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And I think they're going to sell a lot of them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

I think it's a good idea.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And might have more pixels than this computer anyway.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And that's great.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

And a giant battery.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Because no one has a local computer with that much RAM.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

You can't have hundreds of gigs of RAM or whatever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

The compute needed to do the current hot thing, which is AI, that just doesn't exist.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It doesn't exist on a desktop.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It doesn't exist on a laptop.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

It's just not feasible.

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

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...

Accidental Tech Podcast
681: The Price of Your Nightmares

of a battery powered laptop currently that it's all server side.