It's time for episode 171 of the Clockwise podcast from Relay FM, recorded Wednesday, January 11th, 2017.

Clockwise, four people, four tech topics, 30 minutes.

Welcome back to Clockwise, the podcast that always works better when there are two hosts and two guests.

I am your returning co-host, Jason Snell, and across the internet from me is my co-host, Dan Moran.

Hi, Dan.

Hey, Jason, we're together again.

Welcome back.

Yes.

Finally, all the travels are over for a little while and we can do this show

together every week. I got to go. Oh, no. This is clockwise where we talk about. You heard the

beginning of the show. I explained it already. There's four people we talk about tech topics.

We have two wonderful guests that joining me and Dan, as always, to my left. My good friend from,

we work together at Mac User and Mac World, and she writes books about Mac things now, take control of Sierra. Shally McFarland, is that right?

Sierra, a take control crash course. Oh, right with a colon in there. Yeah, I have one of those two. It's very confusing. Well, anyway, it's a take control book about everything you need to know about Sierra. Hello, welcome. And to my left from Scotland,

where it's probably raining, developer of fine calculator apps for iOS, MacOS, Apple TV, Apple Watch,

your toaster, your fridge, all that stuff. James Thompson is back. Hi, James.

Hi, Dan. I believe this is my 10th proper appearance on

clockwise, so I look forward to the retrospective articles on how it came to happen.

All right, let's do topic number one. I will go first. Here it is. Consumer reports

withheld MacBook recommendations based on lab tests that they used that turned out to be

broken we learned this week by a weird bug that was exacerbated. MacBook recommendations based on lab tests that they use that turned out to be broken, we

learned this week, by a weird bug that was exacerbated by their test methodology.

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