129: Tap-to-Click Wizard
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2015
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
- Skylake desktop CPUs launch
- Casey joins 2012
- 2015 iPhone predictions
- Carrier subsidies and pricing games
- Post-show:
- Repairing iPads
- Hot water heaters
- Marco's new camera
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes people just like to have something to fiddle with their fingers. |
| 0:03.6 | What else is going on? |
| 0:06.3 | Nothing, because we have nothing in the follow-up section this week, except for an item we decided |
| 0:10.3 | we're not talking about this week, and that's it. |
| 0:12.4 | So we actually genuinely have no follow-up for real as confirmed by John Syracuse himself. |
| 0:19.5 | We had a long, you know, I was away in vacation and we, you know, we had a weird recording schedule. |
| 0:24.9 | What the hell was our last show about? |
| 0:26.3 | It was so long ago. |
| 0:27.8 | It doesn't really matter. |
| 0:28.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:29.8 | We should, I guess, talk about Sky Lake because that's a thing as of today. |
| 0:35.2 | Well, sort of. |
| 0:36.2 | I mean, I think the most boring Sky Lake chips launch today, the ones that go in like IMAX and desktops. |
| 0:42.3 | Are they the most boring? |
| 0:43.6 | I think Intel thinks that they're the most exciting because they are extreme to use the 90s parlance. |
| 0:49.4 | Like they're the unlocked, able to be overclocked. |
| 0:53.6 | Intel is actually talking about overclocking in them. |
| 0:56.0 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:57.0 | They're the ones. |
| 0:58.0 | They're sort of the PC enthusiast chips. |
| 0:59.8 | I don't know that there's many of them left, but like maybe they think that's like the only place that does a potentially a growth market. |
| 1:04.9 | So I don't think they are the most boring ones. |
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