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• @stalman Tyler Stalman on x

  The moment I realized I was going need to find a tougher test for the MacBook Neo😳 [video]

• @mariohachemer Mario Hachemer on x

  @stevesi This is me, in May 2013, being paid by an agency to use and interview people about the Surface RT. Below it is my huge HP Envy, which was my daily-driver back then. I absolutely loved *the ideas* of Windows 8, it's why I follow you. A lot of what you outlined in the post…

• @benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x

  Paradigm shifting computer. Well put @stevesi

• @2shar Tushar Kanwar on x

  Lovely read, one that documents the annals of modern computing history (almost) to explain why the Neo is the right product forged out of decades of slow software evolution

• @eswarpr @eswarpr on x

  @stevesi Great article @stevesi! I was lead engineer for Apple TV (the box) & was the guinea pig for the “one App OS” effort ie iOS frameworks infiltrating everywhere. Fun project, because I suddenly was at the heart of a company rewrite (& was disclosed immediately on a lot of i…

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  Wrote this.

• @sytelus Shital Shah on x

  @stevesi @PaulSolt Big innovation here is actually Apple's Rosetta which translates binaries for different CPU at the install time or on the fly. Users don't have to worry about finding ARM version of particular software. Backward compatibility matters for consumer products, it's…

• @edandersen Ed Andersen on x

  @stevesi I loved my Surface RT. Not having emulation of x86 binaries was not a problem, but blocking with signature checks even new native ARM binaries outside the App Store harmed it greatly. I literally was at the New York launch store (for some reason) and watching the staff h…

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  @edandersen these are two sides of the same coin. its about the experience. look at macOS today and what you have to jump through to download something and make it run, and even then what it is you can download and run as a subset of what Mac API surface area _was_.

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  @sytelus @PaulSolt As I said it was important but also finite. The key was also replacing and obsoleting system APIs over time. My view that is the 90% benefit.

• @counternotions Kontra on x

  “Everyone on Mac is current. Every Mac is the most secure, power efficient, and reliable Mac ever made. We can't say that about Windows PCs even today.”

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  @marcobarsotti The windows tablet / tabletPC is a perfect example of correct concept but the technology wasn't ready. Digitizers and screens didn't work in early 2000s. Battery life and cooling on x86 could not work.

• @stroughtonsmith … Steve Troughton-Smith on bluesky

  The iPhone processor in MacBook Neo is a monster  —  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d- VOt9559Gk

• @om @om on x

  The launch of MacBook Neo has me feeling a little philosophical. About Heidegger. About missing Steve Jobs. About Aristotle and the sheer joy of colors. In the end, this is my essay about the essence of a machine. https://om.co/... [image]

• @magicsilicon Pushkar Ranade on x

  A very honest, emotional piece by @stevesi and perhaps the most thoughtful review of Mac Neo you will read.

• @jamesmcdaniel James McDaniel on x

  Steven has a thoughtful and honest article (below) about the new MacBook Neo. My daily driver since 2020 has been a MacBook Pro M1, but I purchased a thinner & lighter MacBook Air M4 on sale for $800 in January and I have similar opinions about that experience.

• @realchrisebert Chris Ebert on x

  This is a great read. @stevesi is a knowledgeable authority on how significant the Neo is for Apple and I love the history he shares.

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  The Mac Neo is a paradigm shifting computer. This is why.