101: Big Plastic Finger
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2015
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- 12" MacBook Air
- Efficient use of PCI Express lanes may be the reason for only one USB 3.1 port.
- RIP Thunderbolt?
- How do you power it?
- Reliability Probability
- 12" MacBook Air
- iPad Pro with an optional stylus?
- CES
- Audio Hijack 3
- Post-show:
- How much is Marco saving by using Go?
- WatchKit's limitations and what to expect from the first year of Apple Watch apps
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| 0:00.0 | I have too many freaking t-shirts. |
| 0:01.3 | Like, I made the mistake of using my, the system I have for storing t-shirts is like |
| 0:06.2 | my nerd t-shirts going hangers instead of being folded up. |
| 0:09.9 | And I figured let's find one I have like two nerd t-shirts and I have a thousand nerd |
| 0:13.9 | t-shirts and half my closet is nerd t-shirts and hangers. |
| 0:17.4 | I just really need more closet spaces. |
| 0:19.4 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.4 | We should probably actually start the show. |
| 0:23.7 | So we have some follow up from all the way across the planet in Australia. |
| 0:28.5 | John, would you like to tell us about what Wade from Australia said? |
| 0:31.6 | This is the best theory I've heard so far although it's still kind of vague and shaky |
| 0:36.0 | because based on fake products and rumors, why a 12 inch MacBook Air might only have |
| 0:43.1 | one USB port on it instead of two? |
| 0:46.3 | Oh jeez, I cannot wait for this thing to come out so we can stop talking about it. |
| 0:49.0 | Yeah, no, but it's like that's the worst part of the rumor. |
| 0:51.3 | It's like yeah, but it's written as green, really thin, blah, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:54.4 | Like the one that throw it was like one port. |
| 0:56.4 | Why would you do that on purpose? |
| 0:57.4 | And then you know, like, you know, I just do, I need to have a reason because it doesn't |
| 1:02.6 | make any sense otherwise. |
| 1:04.6 | So this is about the PCI Express lanes. |
| 1:07.0 | How many PCI Express lanes are supported by the core M chipset that we assume this fake |
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