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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WOR.

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Speaker 2: Here's Larry Minte with more of the WOR Saturday Morning

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Speaker 2: Show and welcome back. What about an Apple computer for

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Speaker 2: well under one thousand dollars that Rich DeMuro from rich

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Speaker 2: on Tech says is amazing? Here's Rich So I think

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Speaker 2: this is really interesting, Rich, and good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: I know you attended this event in New York City

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Speaker 2: where they unveiled the six hundred dollars MacBook, but they

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Speaker 2: also have a six hundred dollar iPhone coming out at

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Speaker 2: the same time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so which one do you want to start with?

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Speaker 3: You want me to start with the MacBook.

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Speaker 1: Or the iPhone?

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Speaker 2: Start with the MacBook. But I'm fascinating they're both the

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Speaker 2: same price.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look, Apple has gotten to a point where

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Speaker 4: they are so big and they have so much technology

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Speaker 4: that's been proven over the past, you know, maybe five

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Speaker 4: years with their own chips, that they can now make

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Speaker 4: things at much cheaper prices and it's really good. I mean,

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Speaker 4: this MacBook Neo as it's called, is five ninety nine dollars.

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Speaker 4: There's four hundred ninety nine dollars for students. And Larry,

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Speaker 4: I've been reviewing and testing computers for you know, over

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Speaker 4: a decade, and this blows.

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Speaker 1: Everything else out of the water.

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Speaker 4: We're talking chromebooks, we're talking low cost Windows laptops. You're

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Speaker 4: gonna have to give me a reason not to recommend

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Speaker 4: this laptop to just about anyone in the world, students,

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Speaker 4: someone who just needs a simple computer, because it does

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Speaker 4: everything you need at such a good price.

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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm really ticked off right now because I

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Speaker 2: bought a MacBook for my wife for Christmas and paid

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Speaker 2: more than double that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the thing. So, you know, and this is.

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Speaker 4: Probably one of the reasons Apple didn't do this earlier,

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Speaker 4: is because this is going to eat into a lot

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Speaker 4: of sales of MacBook Airs, a lot of sales of iPads,

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Speaker 4: And now they've got this device that you know, if

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Speaker 4: you're looking at an iPad, you're like, well, hold on,

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Speaker 4: I can get a computer for that price. Oh, if

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at a MacBook Air, do I need it

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Speaker 4: to do all those things? This is half the price

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Speaker 4: MacBook are starts, you know, around one thousand dollars. Listen,

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Speaker 4: their most affordable computer ever, and it's just it's incredible.

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Speaker 4: It runs on an iPhone chip and iPhone chip from

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Speaker 4: last year So that's how powerful these iPhone chips are

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Speaker 4: that they can run an entire laptop.

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Speaker 1: That's just wild.

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Speaker 2: So this is a big recommendation by you. If you're

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Speaker 2: looking for a computer, this is the one to.

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Speaker 1: Buy, I think.

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Speaker 4: So, I mean, look, I had some limited hands on

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Speaker 4: time yesterday.

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Speaker 1: You know we're talking an hour.

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Speaker 4: Or two, but you know, with further testing, everything I

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Speaker 4: did on there was just speedy and fast. You're not

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Speaker 4: going to be editing you know, eight K video, but

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Speaker 4: you know, think about it, people do a lot of

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Speaker 4: their computing on their iPhone already. They're editing pictures, they're

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Speaker 4: editing videos, they're doing emails, they're surfing the web. So

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Speaker 4: you know, at a keyboard and a bigger screen, and

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Speaker 4: now you've got a laptop that can do pretty much

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Speaker 4: the same thing, plus any.

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Speaker 1: App you want that you want to download on.

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Speaker 2: There is this available right now.

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Speaker 4: It's available on March eleventh. Pre Orders are open now.

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Speaker 4: The only thing is if you are a student or

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Speaker 4: education discount you know, teacher, definitely grab that four hundred

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Speaker 4: ninety nine price point. You can pay an extra one

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Speaker 4: hundred dollars to double the storage on this vice and

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Speaker 4: also add a fingerprint scanner as well.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's amazing. I'm going to get one. I think

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of people listening right now that are

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Speaker 2: going to get one. And Natalie shaking her head, I

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Speaker 2: think she's going to be an Apple person all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden.

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Speaker 4: It's going to convert a lot of people. It's going

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Speaker 4: to be their first Apple product for many, many people.

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Speaker 4: And especially besides the iPhone, you know, this might be people,

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Speaker 4: you know, instead of a Windows laptop.

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Speaker 2: I have not heard you this excited about products since

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Speaker 2: we've been talking.

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Speaker 4: Well, Larry, look here, my show is all about providing

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Speaker 4: value to consumers. That is the number one thing people

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Speaker 4: call in. They say, hey, Rich, I got to call

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Speaker 4: the other day someone said, my computer screen turned black?

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Speaker 4: You know, can you recommend a new computer? I said,

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Speaker 4: hold on, what's happening with your computer? You know, is

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Speaker 4: this happening all the time? I know it just happened once.

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Speaker 4: I said what kind of computer? You said, Oh, I

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Speaker 4: bought it last year. You do not need a new computer.

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Speaker 4: Computers can last a decade. So I'm all about helping people,

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Speaker 4: you know, save money, not just buy new tech stuff.

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Speaker 4: So when I see something like this, that is such.

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Speaker 1: A great value. I'm going to recommend it over and over.

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Speaker 2: Well, is the iPhone seventeen E at six hundred dollars

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Speaker 2: a great value?

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Speaker 1: Now here's the deal. I think I'm a little cooler.

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Speaker 4: On that device. I think the iPhone seventeen E is

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Speaker 4: really nice. I think it provides that value for someone

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Speaker 4: who doesn't want to pay seven or eight hundred dollars

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Speaker 4: for a new iPhone. But you know, you're only two

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Speaker 4: hundred dollars from the price of an iPhone seventeen and

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Speaker 4: you are giving up some things. The display is not

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Speaker 4: as good, the camera is not as good. They did

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Speaker 4: add mag safe, which you know now you can put magnetic.

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Speaker 3: Accessories on the back, but in the battery lasts really

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Speaker 3: long time on this phone. So I'm not as.

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Speaker 4: Hot on the iPhone seventeen E. I'm gonna put it

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Speaker 4: through its paces, test it out. But you know, it's

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Speaker 4: a nice budget phone. It matches that price point that

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Speaker 4: people want when they see seven hundred, one thousand dollars like, oh,

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Speaker 4: and then this thing comes in at five ninety nine.

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Speaker 4: A lot of the carriers give it you for free

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Speaker 4: if you're on one of their pricey plans, So people

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Speaker 4: just gravitate towards something like that.

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Speaker 2: So a next generation of wireless is being planned right

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Speaker 2: now by Qualcom.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know you're excited for this.

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Speaker 4: I mean we're just getting used to five G now

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Speaker 4: they're talking about six G. If they're going to have

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Speaker 4: it apparently in place by twenty twenty nine, they want

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Speaker 4: it to be AI native, which means the network is

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Speaker 4: actually going to run itself a little bit to optimize

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Speaker 4: traffic and connections. And this makes sense. You know, every

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Speaker 4: every cell phone company or every wireless technology runs in

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Speaker 4: about a ten year cycle. We went in my time

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Speaker 4: from three G to four G now to five G

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Speaker 4: matches that pattern.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people listening right now, and

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Speaker 2: I've talked to them, are confused bay AI. They want

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Speaker 2: to use AI, but they don't really know how to start.

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Speaker 2: What would you suggest?

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Speaker 1: I would suggest going to chatgbt dot com and starting

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Speaker 1: there and you can just chat.

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Speaker 4: I was, you know, hang out by Mom last night

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Speaker 4: and we were all talking about CHATCHYBT. She says, It's

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Speaker 4: incredible the stuff that you can you know, every single

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Speaker 4: decision that people are making now they're running through chat

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Speaker 4: gybt for better or for worse, so be careful. I'm

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Speaker 4: on the airplane, I see the guy in front of

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Speaker 4: me running his tax return through chatchubt asking all these

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Speaker 4: questions about it. And yes I do peep on people

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Speaker 4: what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: On their photos.

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Speaker 4: You're not blocking your screen. But you know, chatchibt dot

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Speaker 4: com is great. I had a person email me about

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Speaker 4: a question. They said, Rich, I want to add someone

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Speaker 4: to my photo. How do I do it? It's so confusing.

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Speaker 4: I said, go to Gemini dot Google dot com. And

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Speaker 4: I tested it last night. I took two pictures. I

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Speaker 4: took a picture of me picture of someone else. I said,

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Speaker 4: AD heard of my picture. It was someone I interviewed,

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Speaker 4: and sure enough, they talked to her right into my picture.

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Speaker 4: No photoshop, no editing s feels necessary. And that's the

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Speaker 4: beauty of AI. You can talk to it like you

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Speaker 4: would a person, and it understands that if it doesn't

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Speaker 4: get it right the first time, keep talking and it

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Speaker 4: will eventually figure it out.

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Speaker 1: It's really incredible.

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