You ever gone back recently to a track pad that actually has a button, like a separate button area that you can't just click the whole thing, you ever?

Well, the one that we had of that, the non-unibody MacBook Pro, the button had been so filled with child filth that it would like not click down or like it stuck down, like it physically would know that.

Yeah, so I guess that one happened with the four stretch. I guess that'll just get like an even crust of disgustingness.

Kids are gross, man.

So we should do a little bit of follow up. And one of you wants to talk about cellular service on Macs.

A couple of listeners.

Okay, we talked a lot about the Mac last show, the viability of the Mac, whether it's going to be replaced by the iPad, if it's a dead platform, all that stuff.

And multiple people asked us about a topic that has come up in the show before, but didn't come up on the last episode.

It's related to the question of, I don't think Casey maybe was talking about this, how you can go anywhere with an iPad and do anything because it's got a cellular connection and it's got Wi-Fi and it's kind of all in one.

And yeah, if you have a laptop, you can tether it, but then you also need your phone and then you're draining your phone's battery.

And we didn't take the next step and talk about the topic, the evergreen topic of why do Macs not have cellular connections?

What is it like, because a lot of people think that would make the Mac a stronger competitor to even the pro iPads, especially another the Macs are very small.

If you could have a MacBook one, second generation MacBook one with better battery life, a faster CPU, and a cellular connection, that would surely give a an iPad pro or run for its money as that single lightweight machine that you can take everywhere and work from anywhere with.

Why is it the Macs, or all this time, don't have cellular and I seem to recall last time we talked about it, we didn't really, we had some vague ideas, but at this point years later, I think most of our vague ideas are like, well, they want to reserve that for the phone, and I think you should use your phone to just like, now what's the excuse?

So I think that the problem Apple has with putting a cellular modem in in a MacBook Pro is twofold. One, it's more things to take up space and actually come to think of a battery life.

You know, things have to get ever thinner or so we seem to think anyway. And two, why would you not have an iPhone with you? You have an iPhone, you have a way to tether it to your Mac.

Why would you ever need an onboard connection on your Mac? Now, of course, this argument falls completely on its face when you point out, well, there's iPads with cellular connections. In fact, Casey, you have an iPad with a cellular connection, and I have an iPad with a cellular connection because I don't want to have to tether to my phone anytime I want to get online outside of the house.

Not when I'm not near Wi-Fi. So I don't know that I would buy a Mac that had a cellular connection, but it certainly is appealing.

And it certainly would make me think twice about an iPad Pro if I was trying to like decide between an iPad Pro with cellular or say a MacBook one with cellular.

I don't know Marco, how do you think about it?

I would love a MacBook with cellular. I would absolutely love it. But as we discussed, you know, years ago when we first covered this topic, I think nothing has really changed.

In the way that the software environment on the Mac is designed in most cases, most of the apps are designed, the system services are designed to assume they are on Wi-Fi all the time and to assume they can use large amounts of bandwidth.

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