MacBook Air
Apple's lightweight laptop computer that the host used to run Clawbot.
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"I'm running it on a MacBook Air that's sitting in on a shelf somewhere that I just picked up that no one was using."
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"But if it's gonna cost just as much and run way less apps, then that's when you start losing people, either to a much cheaper Chromebook or to that MacBook Air."
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"The cheapest MacBook you've been able to get for the past couple years has always been a MacBook Air, which typically hovers around $1,000 bucks new."
"Up until now, the cheapest laptop available was the MacBook Air, and that just got a price bump up with the M5. That's an $1,100 laptop."
"You said something a few podcasts ago that we're going to end up with a world or frontier model running on a MacBook Air. I mean this is a very specific use case. Are we on track for that? Well, yeah — it's very slow to generate, like a few tokens..."
More from Emad Mostaque →"That $999 starting point had been the starting point for a base MacBook Air for I don't know at least 15 years."
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"A base MacBook Air was and now it's up to $1,300. That's a $200 price jump."
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"this is a step up from HP and a step down from your MacBook Air, MacBook Pro"
"The MacBook Air is increasing to $1,300 from $1,100. So a $200 price increase for the MacBook Air."
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"There will be an open-source Claude 5 level model that runs on a base Mac mini or equivalent. How are we going to manage the world when everybody can run a Claude 5 model on their MacBook Air? I've been a slow adopter on this waiting for that poin..."
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"technical lead on the MacBook Air and Mac Pro at Apple"
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"The last time Apple had a product that was anywhere near this cheap was in 2014. So 12 years ago, they sold the MacBook Air for $899."
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"In 2014, so 12 years ago, they sold the MacBook Air for $899 and now they have this down at $499 or $599."
"The MacBook Air jumped in price from $1,099 to $1,299."
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