357: A Giant Green Field
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: John continues preparing the way
- Mice
- Follow-up:
- Thank you, listeners!
- Casey iMac !Pro offers
- Casey's Catalina Conundrum
- Marco's lamp update (thanks, Dan Engler!)
- First-generation Apple products
- Downgrades from the old Mac Pro
- GPU options for the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR
- GPU in the Belkin image
- Mac Pro RAM options
- Mac Pro Thermodynamics
- LG UltraFine 5K is maybe not "fine"
- Expandable Macs and the history of Mac towers
#askatp- Is an AppleTV really necessary in the world of smart TVs? (via Zach Pruitt)
- How does background app refresh work? (via Adam Jaffrey)
- How does one archive a shedload of old email? (via ComboTwist)
- Post-show: The Leftovers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | John, is your computer arrived yet? |
| 0:02.0 | Didn't come today, that's for sure. |
| 0:04.0 | One would think you would hear the forklift putting it in place. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah, no, I saw the weight and the UPS tracking thing. Take a guess. |
| 0:12.0 | 100 pounds? No, 82. |
| 0:14.0 | Ah, actually, I decided my estimate was ridiculous. I was going to walk it way back, but never... |
| 0:20.0 | Because the machine is only like 50, so I guess 30 pounds of packaging? |
| 0:24.0 | Hmm. Excited? I guess not, since you don't want to get. |
| 0:28.0 | I did all sorts of preparing the weight today, did I? Well, I tweeted some things here, I'll send you more stuff. |
| 0:34.0 | If the Mac Pro arrives before the monitor, which by current shipping estimates is likely to happen, |
| 0:40.0 | are you really going to sit there and not try it, like, not plug it into something else just to test it out? |
| 0:46.0 | Right? I mean, what am I going to have connected to? |
| 0:50.0 | Anything! Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Plug it into your gaming monitor. I don't care like anything. |
| 0:54.0 | I don't know. I don't know. I want to have... I'm not in the hurry. |
| 0:58.0 | I mean, I might actually take it out of the box and set it up kind of or... I don't know. |
| 1:04.0 | I just assume I have the monitor to get here. I'm going to see what the date is going to be on the monitor. |
| 1:08.0 | So, like, you've been waiting 10 years for this computer. It's going to arrive in your house and you're going to let it sit in the box for a week, |
| 1:14.0 | rather than plug it into any other monitor. Yeah, I mean, what's not... It's going to keep... |
| 1:20.0 | I just have to see what the ship date is. Like, if it's still going to be within my vacation time, |
| 1:24.0 | like, there's holiday stuff going on too, you know? |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, but still. |
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