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Steven Sinofsky

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313 total appearances

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The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

And its capabilities are going to be different from the ones that they do want to sell, which is different than the Neo, which has the capabilities that

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

need to be targeted.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

So the Apple hardware line has a lot of homogeneity in it in terms of capability.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

But PCs can become really hit or miss, and that's always been the difficulty in the PC ecosystem, is even when there's a winning machine, it's not the one that when you walk into Best Buy and say, I need to buy a computer, help me, Mr. or Mrs. Salesman, and then they just direct you to something based on spiff and

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

current ads or whatever.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

So we'll see.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

I'm sure it's a quality machine.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

You have the tech people on X talking about, you know, taking sides.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It's either the Neo killer because it has an HDMI port or whatever, or it's like embarrassing to the PC ecosystem because regardless, it still runs Windows.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Those extremes are stupid.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Both the Neo and this machine are targeted at just people who need a computer.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

I think in five years, people who need a computer will also need a computer that runs agents.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

But the hardware software world will be unimaginably different in five years.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

So this conversation has no relevance to the product lines that will be available in five years.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

So, wow, it goes up to 32 gigs of RAM and a terabyte of storage.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

It starts at 8 gigs of RAM, which is, like, not great, I guess.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

512 gigs of SSD.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

That's not a good number for a PC.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

Yeah.

The a16z Show
Steven Sinofsky on Apple at 50, Microsoft, and the Future of Computing

The Mac would do 8.