410: The Comfort Is Killing Me
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 149 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Living the M1 lifestyle
- Follow-up:
- AirPods Max
- Battery situation (via Barney)
- Smart Case ∆s
- Turns out, like the Pro Display XDR, the LG UltraFine 5K does have a fan. (via Joseph Duffy)
- Also, it has been revised in the past.
- Tinus’s tweet
- Chrome bug report and comments
- Jonathan Dietz continues to school us on chip packaging
- …and Thunderbolt hubs/controllers
- AirPods Max
- Casey has tried Apple Fitness+
- All three of us are having dangerous thoughts
#askatp- Why do HDR videos look so great but HDR photos… not? (via Chris Lenart)
- Is there a way to prevent an application from stealing focus in macOS? (via Wes Chamness)
- What’s the best way to back up your iCloud Photo Library if it can’t fit on your Mac?
- Post-show: Living the M1 lifestyle (reprise)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm typing away, blazing away, podcasting away on my 13 inch screen. |
| 0:05.2 | That sounds super fun. |
| 0:08.2 | It becomes some light travel in the sense of going from the beach back to regular life |
| 0:15.0 | for a couple of weeks. |
| 0:16.3 | So when is the iMac Pro do back? |
| 0:19.1 | Do you have any idea? |
| 0:20.3 | It's matter less and less as I get used to the M1. |
| 0:23.2 | Oh, here it is. |
| 0:24.5 | Here it is. |
| 0:25.5 | But I haven't heard back yet. |
| 0:26.8 | The estimate still has, I think, another week on it at least. |
| 0:30.7 | Being that it's Christmas week and I'm sure shipping parts and getting people's hours |
| 0:35.7 | is all tricky this week. |
| 0:37.8 | I told them no rush anyway, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's actually another week or |
| 0:42.2 | two after this. |
| 0:43.6 | But ultimately, man, every time... |
| 0:47.8 | I'm using the M1 full time this whole week and doing my regular work, doing some coding, |
| 0:53.7 | doing podcast editing and stuff and it is so fast. |
| 0:58.4 | Stop. |
| 0:59.4 | I don't want to know. |
| 1:00.4 | I don't want to know. |
| 1:01.4 | Stop. |
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