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I don't think they would do that, really, but I was trying to figure out what would they do to make sure, for instance, that businesses don't buy this.

Yeah, this is by far the product that I'm most interested in seeing what it is because it has all these unknowns.

And what I've always hoped for this product was that it would be kind of like when the 12-inch came out.

Obviously, it had a lot of problems, limitations, as we've talked about at length, especially that damn keyboard.

But it had a lot of other problems.

But a lot of people bought it despite that because it was so much smaller and lighter than everything else that everybody was like, oh, my God, I would love a smaller Mac to fit some role in my life or just to be delightful when you pick it up.

If this doesn't have too many significant trade-offs, I could see a lot of people, maybe myself, wanting it for its fun color and its small size.

That could be enough.

If it is a delightful looking and feeling product...

Many people will want it.

And so, you know, one thing that we heard a long time ago, I don't know if this was true.

We heard a long time ago that Phil Schiller was responsible for pushing up market some of the details about the 12-inch MacBook.

I believe things like memory capacities and stuff like that.

And he apparently was like the champion of that in the company of like making the small computer...

Not just a bad low spec computer, but giving it like some premium options or premium capacities.

Yeah.

But like because because the idea is like, yes, some people will buy something if it's the smallest, cheapest one.

But also some people would buy a small one because it's nicer to them in some way and they want it.

But they would also either need or want a little bit higher spec in some way.

So if the rumor is true that came out today that the thing maxes out at 512 gigs, that's going to limit some things.