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Accidental Tech Podcast

208: Your Face Is Your Face

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2017

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

That is going to make an awesome after show.

0:01.8

It's not really because it's going to be just a white dude

0:04.6

bickering and moaning about his expensive car.

0:07.1

It's going to be a terrible after show.

0:08.3

And we're going to keep it in and people are going to like it.

0:10.7

And the one or two people that don't like it have long since stopped listening.

0:17.6

All right, so people have suggested that this Phantom version of the Mac,

0:24.8

which includes an ARM co-processor, if you will.

0:28.1

Maybe that's used for PowerNap.

0:29.7

I still am skeptical that would be a reasonable use case, but be that as it may.

0:34.4

There are people who have used an example of apparently there's something in the PlayStation 4,

0:38.4

which apparently is a console that people apparently play video games with.

0:42.1

I didn't realize that was still a thing.

0:43.4

But anyway, it has a rest mode that I guess works similarly right, John?

0:47.5

Yeah, so this, the last show we were talking about, the ARM CPU,

0:52.4

actually being able to function and do useful work when the Intel CPU is off,

0:57.1

which would mean that the ARM CPU would need access to all the same stuff,

1:01.2

all the IO and networking and all the other stuff.

1:05.0

Regardless of what software it runs, whether it runs just a bunch of Apple software that Apple

1:09.2

supplies as part of the OS or whether third parties can ship ARM compile binaries to it,

1:13.3

that it would be a full-fledged CPU able to do useful work.

1:18.2

I was saying how that is pretty complicated.

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