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Yeah, he didn't say anything about what particular product sold because that information cannot be released in the Tim Cook era.
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.
And they released the Neo and yada yada.
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.
Seems like the product is doing well, let's say.
Yeah, I saw one in a coffee shop today.
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.
It was white painted on the inside with clear on the outside, if you know what I mean.
It was very curvy.
It was very nice to handle.
Obviously, it was giant by today's standards, but you know, 2001, it was a long time ago.
That was a good laptop, and it gave a lot of people a good impression.
Obviously, I don't think that one held up.
In the long run, like physically speaking, as well as these aluminum ones will because the plastic bodies were creaky.
There was the ones that got the yellow staining on them.
Some of them could smell weird.
Like we have come a long way in material science since then.
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.
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?