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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where MacBook comes up on Big Technology, the a16z Podcast, Latent Space, TBPN, 20VC
Apple’s Folding Phone "Duo" Is Here + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited — With M.G. Siegler
- ▶ 33:35 Alex Kantrowitz Okay, briefly, there's also going to be MacBooks with touch displays, again from Bloomberg. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:44 M.G. Siegler And so he's the guy who got a lot of credit for the MacBook Neo, and he's going to get, I think the rightful, a lot of credit for all of these new, you know, the touchscreen MacBook, as we talked about the, the foldable iPhone, he's been… 2 times in the scene
I'm Obsessed With Local AI. Here's Why
- ▶ 1:41 Greg Isenberg The hardware could be your MacBook, it could be your Windows laptop, an Android phone, an iPhone, it could be a browser, a Raspberry Pi.
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 8:16 Cliff Weitzman Yeah, so number one, I want to explain again, it's very different than buying an iPhone or buying a MacBook. 2 times in the scene
Faster Chips That Don't Melt — Anima Anandkumar & Benedikt Jenik, Accelerated Understanding
- ▶ 13:32 Benedikt Jenik We have done inference on, like, we can do small models with smaller context, or even medium big models with smaller context fit on a MacBook or Mac Studio.
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
- ▶ 9:20 David Senra On, uh, I think one of the MacBook, like, the new MacBook laptops, and the team prepares, like, this huge presentation for Steve, and they're, like, really nervous because of his commanding presence, and he walks in. 3 times in the scene
Why The AI Bubble Will Burst: The Most Logical Case — With Paul Kedrosky
- ▶ 1:03:36 Paul Kedrosky It will become underlying a host of other things that go on all the time, and I will no more know who provides my tokens than I do from which hydroelectric dam the power came from that's powering my MacBook right now.
Demis Steps Down, Apple’s Memory Problem, Microsoft’s Clever Trick
- ▶ 9:35 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, we've already seen the increases with, uh, MacBooks and, and, um, the bigger devices, but of course, 2 times in the scene
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- ▶ 48:01 Alessio Fanelli How much of this applies to, say I have this MacBook, I want to run Gemma really efficiently, um, 2 times in the scene
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft’s Best Day
- ▶ 57:48 Alex Kantrowitz And the guys building the big computer are taking all the memory and they've already raised product prices on, uh, on, on, um, you know, Mac books and, and, um, and I, you know, big, big computers.
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 4:36 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I will just come to Chicago and you'll give me an iPod and a MacBook and whatever.
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta’s AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
- ▶ 33:49 Alex Kantrowitz And, you know, Apple's, you know, doing well in its MacBook business, and there are some others.
Peter Thiel on How to Build a Creative Monopoly
- ▶ 0:04 David Senra Anyone who's held an iPhone or a MacBook has felt the result of Steve Jobs' obsession with visual and experiential perfection.
Open Source vs. Closed Source, Memory Chips Eat AI Profits, Comcast Restructures | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:13 unnamed speaker Apple, last week, raised prices for MacBooks
Mythos is Back, OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6, Apple’s Price Increases
- ▶ 0:29 Alex Kantrowitz OpenAI, by the way, may be delaying its IPO to twenty-twenty-seven, or maybe it won't, we'll discuss that, and Apple hikes the prices up on MacBooks and other devices by anywhere between the teens and 30%, so we'll talk about what's behind…
- ▶ 44:01 Alex Kantrowitz Apple buying eight gigabytes for a MacBook does not. 2 times in the scene
Jake Paul on Going From YouTube to Boxing to Investing | a16z ft. Anti Fund
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 10:03 Stephen Balaban The audience might some, some members of the audience might know you can kind of train a random forest model on a MacBook, right?
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:48 unnamed speaker They buy the top of the line Mac book.
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:27 Aravind Srinivas That's something far more efficient that can run on, on, on people's local devices, you know, MacBooks, their Windows PCs.
State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
- ▶ 44:02 Aaron Levie And, and then you just like, you're like, oh no, actually I do have an iPad and a Mac book and an iPhone.
Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:49 John Coogan Like people, like people think of like my, the, all the stuff I have saved on my, the desktop of my Mac book is like my core repository.
Musk Loses OpenAI Case, Leopold’s 13F, Data Center Backlash | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 21:53 unnamed speaker 24 seven, leaving MacBooks open, talking about, like, productivity, and yet, uh, the, like, the magical moments, the consumer technology has been, like, completely left behind.
Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- ▶ 54:36 Jason Calacanis I just got this MacBook with
The $10 Trillion Bet on Humanoid Robots | Figure Founder Brett Adcock · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 15:45 Brett Adcock Like right now we interact with AI through like 20 year old computers, like phones and MacBooks and stuff like that, and they're just, they're not the ideal, like intermediary and interfaced AI.
Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
- ▶ 28:57 Amelia LeRutte Yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's, as an aside, yes, it's, I, I have a MacBook Max for reference 2 times in the scene
Hermes Agent: The New OpenClaw?
- ▶ 5:32 unnamed speaker So like I'm on a MacBook, so it has all of like the Apple Notes, Apple Reminders, it's got Find My, it's got iMessage.
⚡️ The best engineers don't write the most code. They delete the most code. — Stay Sassy
- ▶ 56:53 unnamed speaker You know, you, you make fun of the MacBook Neo, but actually it's a way better MacBook than you used to buy for 1300 dollars in 2016. 2 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
- ▶ 6:37 unnamed speaker My first is I was so, I was so loyal to Apple products that I refused to get a game, like a PC for gaming, and so I worked, I probably reffed like 300 soccer games, like some absurd amount, to get the maxed out MacBook
Bezos' $100B AI Plan, Nvida Chip Smuggling, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:58 unnamed speaker A couple thousand dollars on a Mac book and a lot of open source software because you're using Python and Linux and these things.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 0:14 Felix Rieseberg Silicon Valley overall is undervaluing the local computer, and my default argument for that is always, how come you are using Macbooks and not like an iPad or a Chromebook?
- ▶ 17:43 Felix Rieseberg And my default argument for that is always, how come we're all using Mac books and not like an iPad or a Chromebook?
- ▶ 1:17:57 Felix Rieseberg You didn't buy the latest MacBook.
AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:50 Jordi Hays Says he had a dream that Apple released a thirty-two-inch MacBook called the MacBook Pro Ultra Wide, and it looked like this.
Karpathy's "autoresearch" broke the internet
- ▶ 3:11 Greg Isenberg You can't just run it on, let's say you have a Mac book M one or something like that.
- ▶ 21:01 Greg Isenberg I'm actually using a Mac book and an M one pro.
Anthropic v. DoW, Paramount wins WB, OpenAI raises $100B | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:43 Jordi Hays With a Mac book.
Square: Jim McKelvey. He Lost a $2,000 Sale, Then Built a $10 Billion Company
Inside the Minds of the Most Successful Founders | David Senra
- ▶ 24:41 Codie Sanchez Or the Mac book and the computers that you're on every day.
How a Meta PM ships products without ever writing code | Zevi Arnovitz
- ▶ 35:00 Zevi Arnovitz You can, you can use all of these just on your like regular MacBook or regular laptop.
Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
- ▶ 57:36 Tobi Lütke An up-to-date MacBook.
The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:50 John Coogan That was the whole pitch since, I don't know, probably the eighties, like the Christmas time was when people would gift each other Mac books or Mac computers and they built up, built up, built up.
Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
- ▶ 17:35 Marc Andreessen You know, here we are, whatever, six months later, and you have an open source model called Kimi, and I think, I don't know if they've had, it's either shrunk down to be able to run on either, it's like one MacBook or two MacBooks, um,…
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
- ▶ 15:35 Ranjan Roy But I mean, was it seven, eight years ago, like AirPods, the magic of them was you just put them on and they connected to your phone, MacBook, iPad very easily.
After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
- ▶ 38:27 Justin Johnson Um, but if you're allowed to, like, work on a recent, like, even this year's iPhone, or, like, a recent MacBook, or even if you have a local GPU,
OpenAI’s IPO Plan, Deconstructing The AI Bet, Apple’s iPhone 17 Revival
- ▶ 46:06 M.G. Siegler We should focus on the Mac book. 2 times in the scene
How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- ▶ 27:08 unnamed speaker Oh, on like my, on my MacBook.
Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire Live on TBPN
- ▶ 1:19 Shaun Maguire And I gotta say, this last guy had the best Zoom and audio setup ever, and you know, again, I'm just on my MacBook.
The Death of Search: How Shopping Will Work In The Age of AI
- ▶ 10:26 Alex Rampell Um, it's, it's the bane of everybody's existence, which is like, okay, how do I, how do I allocate attribution for Justine's MacBook sale?
Do We Care About The iPhone Air?, Nepal's Discord Revolution, San Francisco’s 996 Culture
- ▶ 3:58 Ranjan Roy And, and for listeners, as we sometimes are a bit, uh, negative on Apple, I am wearing AirPods and we're talking on a MacBook and I have my iPhone next to me.
I quit my job to make $6M/year with AI apps
- ▶ 27:48 unnamed speaker Uh, the conclusion we came to was to build our own thing called W.ai, which would essentially allow anyone to turn their MacBook, their gaming computer, and in the future their PlayStation or iPhone or whatever into a compute contributor.
Side Hustle King: 3 Easy Businesses Anyone Can Start | Chris Koerner
- ▶ 49:48 Chris Koerner So I opened up my Mac book.
- ▶ 53:45 Chris Koerner I'm sitting at the Mac book typing away
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 9:13 Abhinav Asthana And that helped for, you know, paying for, for a MacBook or an iPhone.
- ▶ 13:55 Abhinav Asthana One was really when I got the first iPhone or the first MacBook. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 30:14 David Senra The MacBook that you probably have, and your iPhone, you're probably spending 6:07 hours a day on this.
He went viral at 11 y/o—built the world's best dictation app, then raised a $30M Series A. | Tana... · PMF Show
- ▶ 48:32 unnamed speaker People genuinely bought MacBooks and switched over from windows just so they could use flow.
IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate
- ▶ 45:45 Thomas Laffont Competitive advantage, right, was the integration of hardware and software that led to the beautiful MacBook that we're all using.
The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
- ▶ 29:21 Emmanuel Ameisen Sometimes you can load them, like, on your CPU, on your MacBook, and it's also a relatively new field, and so, you know, there's, as I'm sure we'll talk about, there's, like, some conceptual burdens and concepts that you just want to,…
Why Uber’s CPO delivers food on weekends | Sachin Kansal
- ▶ 14:13 Sachin Kansal They look so good on my, on my, you know, MacBook or on a Zoom screen.
OpenAI's Jony Ive Moment, Anthropic's Big New Model, Google In AI Mode
- ▶ 27:17 Ranjan Roy I was just thinking about it because I got a new MacBook, of course, even though I'm talking crap shit on Apple all the time.
Advice Line with Luis von Ahn of Duolingo
- ▶ 23:14 Blair Hastie And our first product, Tame, is a minimalist cable organizer for, um, Apple MacBook users. 2 times in the scene
How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
- ▶ 28:27 Austin Rief That was the year that, I mean, there were days in 2018, we were growing 20,000, you know this, we would do these MacBook giveaways, we would grow 25,025 thousand subscribers in a day.
OpenAI Raises $40 billion, Is AI a Letdown?, Musk Sells X to xAI
- ▶ 50:18 Ranjan Roy Into every part of the iPhone and product and accidentally I call Siri even on my MacBook right now.
Nikhil Kamath ft. Perplexity CEO, Aravind Srinivas | WTF Online Ep 1. · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 30:34 Aravind Srinivas Um, and, and that's fantastic because you cannot say that about, uh, like say your MacBook.
Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI
- ▶ 31:34 Anjney Midha Your MacBook camera.
Gruber Slams Apple's Siri Failure, Tech Stocks In Freefall, Vibecoding & OpenAI's Agents
- ▶ 12:36 Alex Kantrowitz Uh, I, I love the latest gen iPhone that I have and the MacBook for instance.
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
- ▶ 26:19 Guido Appenzeller But, but, uh, independently of that, the model weights are open, so you can just download them on your laptop, run them with some open source package, like olama, for example, on a MacBook works great.
Oscar Pierre, Glovo CEO & Founder: Selling 30% for €100K |The McDonald's Deal That Saved Them |E1263 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:46 Oscar Pierre Uh, when I see when people have this first experience of ordering, you know, a Mac book charger and getting it in 30 minutes and repeating.
Steeve Morin: Why Google Will Win the AI Arms Race & OpenAI Will Not | E1262 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:20 Steeve Morin So that's why, you know, I think it's, it's a good way to attack it from the software, because ultimately, do you really care about that your MacBook, let's say is an M two or an M three.
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 1:16:21 unnamed speaker And then what would the MacBook look like if it was run by the California government?
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 0:39 Ben Gilbert They make the primary chip inside every MacBook and iPhone shipped today.
Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:15 Victor Riparbelli And, you know, when I opened my MacBook at home, I can recreate almost any song I want without real instruments, right?
My 2024 Year in Review (net worth update etc)
- ▶ 16:21 Greg Isenberg I mean, MacBook?
Guillaume Moubeche, lempire Founder: Bootsrapping to $30M ARR Through Content & Brand | E1238 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:01 Guillaume Moubeche And you have even studies that shows that you actually feel, I think it's like 30% more creative when you're on a MacBook versus a fucking PC.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 2:10:26 John Coogan It says there is a hundred million dollars stuck in your Mac book.
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 46:18 John Coogan Of a, or a photo of a MacBook with some text on it.
Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- ▶ 1:32:39 John Coogan And I mean, I think the answer is like normies, like everyone who uses Outlook in just a normal job, they show up and the computer's just there, and they're not on some slick MacBook working from a coffee shop.
His robotics startup raised $400M, his VC fund over $4B—& he ran both at the same time. Here's ho... · PMF Show
- ▶ 26:25 Lior Susan Then things in the back end, I mean, think about this MacBook that we are talking from, these airports, and a GPU.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 1:09:09 Alistair Croll Uh, this sounds silly, but yeah, um, I bought this like a hundred dollar folding second screen for my MacBook. 2 times in the scene
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 27:24 Jason Calacanis I mean, you'll just download the entire database of every call on a MacBook with an M three and just run it.
Shardul Shah: How Index Makes Decisions & Why Benchmarks & Averages in VC are BS | E1202 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:45 Shardul Shah I thought MacBooks have pretty good security, and as a consequence, the EDR market, like,
iPhone16 Arrives + Apple Intelligence Delays
- ▶ 10:21 Ranjan Roy I say this as someone with HomePods around my home, and an iPhone, and a MacBook, and AirPods, and whatever else.
- ▶ 34:05 Ranjan Roy There's gonna be, whether it's the new AirPods, or whether it's a new watch, or whether it's a new iPad, or whether it's a new MacBook, or whether it's a new iPhone, one of these products within the ecosystem will be interesting and will…
OpenAI Raising At $100 Billion Valuation
- ▶ 11:46 Alex Kantrowitz I don't know, free iPhones or Mac books or something else.
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- ▶ 54:52 Krithika Muthukumar So for example, whether you're buying an iPhone or an iPad or a MacBook or just using a, you know, the Photos app, for example,
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:32:05 David Rosenthal I don't want to have a MacBook and an iPad.
- ▶ 3:32:54 Ben Gilbert I travel with an iPhone and an iPad and a MacBook, and I think I could just do two.
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 1:39:36 Jeff Weinstein The opportunity that they have is not uniform, and it isn't, but it's a little strange because it's all the same MacBooks, and it's a little strange because it's all the same IP addresses, and we all have plenty of bandwidth and smarts,…
The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
No Priors Ep. 70 | With Cartesia Co-Founders Karan Goel & Albert Gu
- ▶ 27:03 Karan Goel Wouldn't it be cool if you could run it on your MacBook and it ran real time and it, you know, was, uh, just, just as good.
$100M Founder Reveals The Secret To Making Data Profitable ft. Anand Sanwal
- ▶ 6:12 Anand Sanwal Like, you know, like people go to Apple manufacturers and try to figure out how many, you know, hard drives or whatever they're shipping out to figure out how many MacBooks are going to be created.
LLM Asia Paper Club Survey Round
- ▶ 30:15 unnamed speaker So let's say I want to do a question and answer, and then I, I get a probability of like, this is a Mac book. 2 times in the scene
AI, Data and Blockchain: a VC perspective | Tomasz Tunguz, Founder of Theory Ventures
- ▶ 14:04 Tomasz Tunguz The, I run it on my Mac book.
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:55 Arthur Mensch Efficiently a model on your Macbook or on your smartphone. 2 times in the scene
Politics & the Future of Tech
- ▶ 47:30 Marc Andreessen Um, it's the, it's, I think it's the best small model now in the benchmarks, and it is, uh, it actually, it's so efficient, it will run on a MacBook.
The Man Who Owns 1% Of ALL Bitcoin
- ▶ 50:19 Shaan Puri Did you see the vending machine where they have, like, MacBook chargers that you could just, like, push A three, and just a giant, like, brick charger will drop out for you?
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 28:07 David Senra Between the MacBook that you probably have
How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show
- ▶ 31:23 Pablo Srugo And so Toby's idea is listen, like let's run a competition where people build businesses on Shopify and the winner wins like a MacBook. 2 times in the scene
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 12:12 Soumith Chintala So, as, like, the MacBooks, uh, have GPUs, and as that stuff started getting increasingly interesting, we pushed Apple to push some engineers and work on the MPS support, and we spent significant time from, like, meta-funded engineers on… 2 times in the scene
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