361: A Button in the Thumb Shelf
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2020
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
- AirPods vs. AirPlanes
- Follow-up:
- Camera ergonomics (via Henrik Helmers)
- Jumpy mice (via Scott Simpson)
- Photo sharing
- Using a PS4 controller wirelessly with a PC/Mac
- The rack-mount Mac Pro is now available
- Pro Display XDR TrueTone
- Mac Pro Ethernet wonkiness
- iMac Pro Ethernet wonkiness
- John's sleep/wake battles
- John's Finder toolbar battles
- Making the case for macOS Low Power Mode
- John's mouse and keyboard reviews
- Cat reference
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Were you bitten by a radioactive spider speaking of spiders? |
| 0:03.5 | Because you could be gaining superhuman hearing abilities. |
| 0:06.9 | Can you like run much faster and leap higher than you could before as well? Can you see through walls? |
| 0:11.9 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:13.2 | Imagine what a curse it would be to get superhuman hearing but only for fan noise. |
| 0:16.7 | I think I already have that. |
| 0:18.3 | Yeah, I was gonna say that is John. |
| 0:20.2 | That's superhuman vision but only for dead pixels. |
| 0:22.7 | I am having a slight problem with my iMac Pro. |
| 0:30.0 | Of course you are. |
| 0:32.0 | Of course you are. |
| 0:34.0 | Coincidentally, I actually have had a slight problem with my iMac Pro, which we'll talk about later. |
| 0:39.2 | But Marco, tell me what terrible tragedy is before on your iMac Pro that's going to |
| 0:43.6 | necessitate a replacement with a Mac Pro. |
| 0:45.6 | I wouldn't say necessitate but it did kind of make me think, |
| 0:50.7 | hmm, of course it did. |
| 0:53.6 | Things that make you go, hmm. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, I've started hearing the fan a lot more often. |
| 0:59.8 | It started to spin up a lot more to audible levels. |
| 1:02.8 | For the first, so I've had the computer for what? |
| 1:05.1 | About two years now. |
| 1:06.1 | For the first 23 months of ownership, I never heard the fan spin up. |
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