Everything about the state of the Mac
I think the smartest thing anyone has said about the new MacBook was A16Z&#x27;s Benedict Evans and Steven Sinofsky on their podcast[1] where they said (to paraphrase) &quot;There&#x27;s no point building more powerful PCs (and Macs)&quot;.<p>The personal computer market is now in the &quot;sustaining innovation&quot; phase. There will be minor changes (USB-C. Touch bar thing. etc) but there is no point doing major changes.<p>Basically if you - like me - need more RAM, or faster graphics, or more CPU in your MPB then you aren&#x27;t going to get it, except as gradual changes that are easy for Apple to drop in.<p>My maxed out MPB is currently using 97.5% CPU, 14.7GB RAM (out of 16BM) and I had to delete stuff this morning because my SSD filled up.<p>The thing is - I know perfectly well that fixing this isn&#x27;t just more CPU and more memory. It&#x27;s a completely different way of working.<p>I should be working on a mobile terminal device (like a Chromebook.. or an iPad Pro) and using my 400 core cluster with 1.5TB of RAM. Sometime I do things that way, but it isn&#x27;t as convenient.<p>This &quot;isn&#x27;t as convenient&quot; things are the things that Apple are trying to fix, NOT &quot;my MBP doesn&#x27;t have enough RAM&quot;.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;a16z&#x2F;pc-devices-architectures-ecosystems" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;soundcloud.com&#x2F;a16z&#x2F;pc-devices-architectures-ecosyst...</a>