139: I’ve Seen This Train Before
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2015
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Where is the updated 15" MacBook Pro?
- Follow-up:
- Overcast 2
- File formats are fun
- Bugs
- Facebook KVOController
- FCModel
- What's next
- Authenticated feeds?
- Business model
- Marco sees a medium
- Post-show: New iMacs
- Increased gamut 1 & 2
- Fusion drive down to 24 GB of flash
- New keyboard, trackpad, and mouse
- Key travel comparison
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So where's my new MacBook Pro, man? |
| 0:02.1 | It looks like we're not going to get it this year. |
| 0:03.9 | I mean, I think if we haven't gotten it yet, like they just did this iMac update. |
| 0:07.2 | Yeah, I feel like I've been hearing from various sources that it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. |
| 0:13.5 | Any second, any second, any second, any second, any second. |
| 0:15.5 | But I don't know. Yeah, the 15-inch MacBook Pro is, it's such the workhorse of the industry. Like, |
| 0:23.1 | it gets so little attention, relatively speaking, like in media coverage and people like |
| 0:28.7 | us talking about, well, not us, but most other podcasts talking about it, talking about laptops |
| 0:34.7 | and everything. Everyone's talking about the new MacBook or new MacBook airs |
| 0:37.8 | or whatever. But when I go to conferences and events or I go to somebody's office and I see |
| 0:44.4 | other developers working, by far the most common machine in use is the 15-knit MacBook Pro. |
| 0:51.0 | Completely agree. Like it really is like the, the quiet workhorse of the entire industry. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, basically, if you're doing something that's, that requires any more horsepower than a |
| 1:00.6 | MacBook Air can give you, then immediately jump directly to 15-inch MacBook Pro. |
| 1:06.2 | Do not pass Go. |
| 1:07.0 | Do not pass 13-inch. |
| 1:08.4 | Do not collect $200. |
| 1:10.0 | That's a reference, John week i uh brought up i think |
| 1:15.3 | and we all talked about the uh the thing where the iPhone 6 s and success plus CPUs are being |
| 1:21.5 | manufactured by two different companies samsung and tsmc and some early benchmarks at the time were |
| 1:25.9 | showing that the t TSM one got significantly |
| 1:29.1 | better battery life than the Samsung one. It was something on the order of like 15 to 20 percent |
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