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Marco Arment

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Yeah, he didn't say anything about what particular product sold because that information cannot be released in the Tim Cook era.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

But you can read between the lines there and say, yeah, they also released the M5 MacBook Pros, but probably not as many first time Mac customers there.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

And they released the Neo and yada yada.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

This all, you know, and this and people reporting like, hey, I went to the Apple store and they tell me that the Neos are something like hotcakes or whatever.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Seems like the product is doing well, let's say.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Yeah, I saw one in a coffee shop today.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Yeah, I think this is the one that we used to call the Icebook because it was like a white plastic, but I think it had like a clear outer shell.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

It was white painted on the inside with clear on the outside, if you know what I mean.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

It was very curvy.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

It was very nice to handle.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Obviously, it was giant by today's standards, but you know, 2001, it was a long time ago.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

That was a good laptop, and it gave a lot of people a good impression.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Obviously, I don't think that one held up.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

In the long run, like physically speaking, as well as these aluminum ones will because the plastic bodies were creaky.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

There was the ones that got the yellow staining on them.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Some of them could smell weird.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

Like we have come a long way in material science since then.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

But for the time, I think a lot of people have a nice impression of this, which was also a small, very rounded, adorable laptop put into a market where it stood out for those qualities.

Accidental Tech Podcast
685: The Ability to Be Hotter

When you first mentioned this, I thought, does it have, because I was thinking like, oh, no inverted T. Does it have the old style?