John Siracusa

This year's MacBook Air order was about 1,000 units.

I mentioned the Neo to my wife, and she asked the head of IT his thoughts on the call.

Quote, We're incredibly excited and have five on order for testing.

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There were already plans to consider moving to MacBook Airs for the middle group and replace them every four years due to AppleCare costs not working out in the district's favor.

No one will miss those Chromebooks.

Even if that doesn't happen, our district is looking at between $400,000 and $500,000 in cost savings.

So in summary, Henry says, no freaking way that they will go to Chromebooks.

And Ari says, no freaking way they would ever go to the MacBook Neo.

And Ari says, they're absolutely going to go to the MacBook Neo.

Two different places.

But it's just funny, the whiplash of these two comments.

All right, let's talk about the M5 Pro and Macs and their, I guess, medium cores.

We have a 9to5Mac write-up that's about an article on the Mac and I website, which is in German.

So Johannes Schuster wrote and is quoting Anand Shimpi, who is on platform architecture at Apple.

Apple's new performance core is a completely custom-designed microarchitecture, so it differs significantly from both the super core and the efficiency core.

Furthermore, it manages to surpass the efficiency of the efficiency core.

All right, and then Doug Brooks, who is Mac Product Marketing, explained that while the chips do support PCIe 5, they are actually custom-designed controllers.

And then from the write-up on 9to5Mac, we were interested in whether two chips with the Fusion architecture could be combined using UltraFusion to create a single system on a chip consisting of four dies.

That would then be the M5 Ultra, but Apple traditionally doesn't talk about upcoming products.