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Accidental Tech Podcast

233: Nobody Cares But Me, But I Do Care

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2017

⏱️ 108 minutes

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0:00.0

So you use the, it's a 15 inch?

0:02.6

No, you know, you have the escape with the 5K and the escape's clamshell.

0:07.8

Close. It's back to a 15, remember?

0:10.2

I know it's hard to keep track.

0:12.0

I can't keep track, holy s**t.

0:14.5

Okay, so wait, so you're on a 15 touch bar.

0:16.8

I mean, a 15 touch bar, which I never actually used the touch bar.

0:20.0

And that was because all the ports.

0:21.6

It was partially because of the ports,

0:23.2

and it was partially because I tried the first few weekends I was spending here.

0:26.6

I used the, the MacBook Escape with the 5K.

0:31.5

And it was struggling to drive all those pixels.

0:33.7

Like, basic operations, like window dragging was slow.

0:36.6

And, and then I, I did want more performance if it was going to be like my main computer

0:41.0

for a month of heavy iOS development.

0:44.2

You know, then I rationalized it away by saying,

0:45.8

well, then when I go home, I can bring the LG 5K and I can sell my iMac while it is

0:52.6

still under any kind of warranty.

0:54.3

It has like a, I think it's under warranty to October.

0:57.2

And then, you know, use my clamshell with this set up I have now,

1:01.6

as my main setup until the Mac Pro comes out next year.

1:04.9

So I have appropriated a second 4K monitor,

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