Marco Arment

I'm sure there's only going to be one RAM option, maybe 16.

We'll see how that goes.

But if it's a good enough product, if it's really interesting, if it's really visually or tactically appealing to people...

Many people will buy it who don't necessarily need it to be the cheapest Mac.

They just want something that they can use.

And the better it is possible to spec it, the more people that will fit in its range.

So I'm very curious to see this from that point of view.

Also...

I have been saying for a while that like one thing I was hoping for with the Apple Silicon era was for them to make a successor or spiritual successor, at least to the 12 inch MacBook with the Apple Silicon era.

Yeah, they really they didn't.

They haven't quite done that.

Like the MacBook Air has been made closer to that, but it's still not close.

They still have not really flexed and shown, like, what is the most amazing, very small computer we can make with our new technology that we have now.

Again, the MacBook Air is very good, and it has almost no compromises.

It's a great computer overall, but it's not nearly as small and light as the 12-inch was.

It's not even close.

So, if they give themselves permission to make more trade-offs, to say, we're going to make a computer that's more compromised than the MacBook Air, which is almost not at all compromised.

We're going to make a computer that's a little bit compromised in some ways, but that will allow us to make something really awesome in some other form.

You know, typically the form factor, the size, the weight, etc.

I feel like there would be so many fewer trade-offs required to do that now with Apple Silicon and all their modern components and stuff now.