289: Everybody’s in the Alliance
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- The AirPort Express lives!
- The End of AirPort
- iPhone mockups preview
#askatp:- Why run both Plex and Infuse? (via Adam Porter)
- Why are Apple's ARM chips so much faster than their competitors? (via Will Faught)
- What's your home printer setup? (via Mark Igloliorte)
- Post-show:
- John's 🐝
- Casey's Car Conundrum
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Who would have guessed that we would have spent so much time tonight talking about printers and the airport express? |
| 0:06.5 | Truly. |
| 0:07.1 | This is why I love this show. |
| 0:09.0 | Truly is the dog days of summer. |
| 0:10.7 | But this is why I love this show, because every time I'm like, oh, this is going to take no time. |
| 0:15.2 | It takes six hours. |
| 0:16.1 | And every time, you know, I think this is going to take 14 hours. |
| 0:19.3 | Then we'll say three things. |
| 0:20.7 | And that will be that. |
| 0:22.8 | The IMAC has made it back. |
| 0:25.4 | And it appears to have made it back. |
| 0:27.1 | I mean, I've only been using it for about an hour right now. |
| 0:29.7 | But it appears to have made it back fine. |
| 0:32.5 | I managed not to get any more dust in the bag because I cleaned off the bottom vents before I put it in |
| 0:37.6 | the bag this time. And I decided to avoid carrying the bag by just placing it into a wheeled |
| 0:44.1 | wagon, which made it much more pleasant to carry and partially remove the need for the bag. |
| 0:49.5 | But, oh well, the iMac is back. It seems to have survived the trip. I am once again incredibly happy |
| 0:56.5 | that that's the choice I took on like how to compute this summer because boy, did I do a lot |
| 1:02.4 | of programming. And every time I watched those CPU bars and I stat menus max out all 10 cores, |
| 1:09.2 | I was very, very happy I had this computer. And during the week that I |
| 1:14.1 | was home and had only my 13 inch with the stupid LG ultra-fine display, that was nice. It was fine. |
| 1:21.3 | But I was very glad that for the rest of the summer, I wasn't using that setup because |
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