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The Talk Show With John Gruber

174: ‘Election Escape Key’ With Joanna Stern

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

Joanna Stern returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros (and their keyboards), stockpiling old MacBook Airs, dongles, Touch ID, SnapChat Spectacles, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do you want to talk about first? We don't have too much, but I think the MacBook Pros are

0:05.6

still interesting because I had a show before Thanksgiving with Jason Snell, but at the time we

0:09.8

had recorded that, it was sort of at the time I like maybe possibly early orders were like unboxing

0:17.0

their MacBook Pros, but at the time it was really just people who had the review units who'd had

0:21.4

them. Whereas now lots and lots of people have MacBook Pros. We have some real world experience.

0:28.1

My is going to talk about it first. Yeah and I reached out to you because I was when you

0:32.8

I really enjoyed your review and then let me let me pull up what you said about my review.

0:40.6

I don't remember. It was good and I was like I need to come on the podcast and defend myself.

0:49.1

And you know what we all it also we can talk about because I'm going to I decided I'm going to

0:52.9

put the mic right up against the MacBook Pro keyboard. So even though you're your listeners,

1:00.5

your listeners don't like loud sounds. I can just be typing on my MacBook Pro the entire time and

1:05.2

which will annoy them. Or maybe that won't annoy them. That is a good topic. I'm glad you brought

1:09.6

that up. I would have been furious if if we'd hit stop and Rick stopped recording and never brought up

1:14.9

the sound. The loud keyboards. Right. What did I say? Let's see. I can find it first. Oh, so you said

1:23.8

so you said very good take as usual. It felt really good to get that. And then I say that it's

1:30.4

baffling. Let me I'll quote what I would I wrote I said why this isn't available and this is the

1:37.4

the touch ID isn't available on all of Apple's MacBook laptops especially the entry level 13 inch

1:42.8

no touch bar pro is baffling. And you said not baffling at all. Maybe you should do it. You should

1:49.7

read your own things. It's like an interactive. You should do it. You should well. I don't

1:55.0

I should do like your your what I think is your voice. Yeah, you should just do my voice. Not baffling

2:00.4

at all. With Apple, you have to pay for awesome new stuff. Is that a good impression? That's

2:07.2

pretty good. I think touch ID combined with the secure enclave is at least half the value of

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