#414 - 16-inch MacBook Pro first impressions!
The CultCast
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🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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This week on The CultCast: everything you need to know about the new 16-inch MacBook Pro! Plus our first impressions of this hot new machine...
And we discuss Disney+, and why it may beat Netflix and Amazon as the best streaming service available.
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This week's stories
16-inch MacBook Pro: MacBook is finally PRO again!
16-inch MacBook Pro wows writers in first hands-on reviews
- Apple finally unleashed its long-rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro on the world this morning, and according to some lucky people who got to play with it early, it was well worth the wait.
16-inch MacBook Pro surprises: No Wi-Fi 6, 720p webcam, 96W charger
- There are some interesting surprises with the 16-inch MacBook Pro that you won’t find in Apple’s press release. So we’ve rounded up the big ones here so you don’t miss anything before buying.
Top 40 tips that make you love the Touch Bar
- Once you get in touch with your Touch Bar, it turns out to have some genuinely useful time-saving features. Especially if you use apps that support it, like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office. Here are 40 top Touch Bar tips.
Disney+ races past 10 million sign-ups in first day
- After launching on November 12, the Mickey Mouse company revealed this morning that it has already surpassed 10 million sign-ups, making the “millions” Apple TV+ pulled in during its first week look pretty weak.
- Demand for Disney+ exceeded even Disney’s highest expectations. Technical problems plagued the service on launch day as customers flooded servers to watch new shows like The Mandolorian, or old classics from Disney’s huge vault of content. Disney shares are up more than 3% on the news.
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| 0:00.0 | Look what the computer wizards at Apple have come up with now. It has the power of these two computers, a built in disk drive. |
| 0:09.0 | It can run over 10,000 different programs. You get everything you need to hook it right up to your TV. |
| 0:16.4 | You can even add a mouse. Introducing the Apple 2C. Now comes the real magic. You can take it home for under $1,300. Hello and welcome to Coolcaste The Fast 20, The Best 30 Plus, |
| 0:37.3 | without the conversation. You're going to hear all week long I'm your host |
| 0:41.3 | Airman Elijah. Join me today, you know him from his apple writings, |
| 0:45.0 | but at the pub, he's known for his grappling and fighting. |
| 0:49.0 | And he's damn good at both. |
| 0:51.0 | Leander Caney is here. |
| 0:52.0 | Excuse me. |
| 0:54.0 | He's also dying. |
| 0:56.0 | He's also dying. He's also dying. |
| 0:57.0 | He might be dead before the show's end. |
| 0:59.0 | Also with us, his favorite city is Saigon. And his favorite farewell is. His favorite |
| 1:03.9 | farewell is Sayanara Lewis is |
| 1:05.0 | Louis Wallace is here. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh, I see what you did there. |
| 1:10.0 | It's great. It's just great to be here. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, I bet you all can guess what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 1:19.0 | Actually, we're recording this on a Wednesday and I might even get this out on a Wednesday. We'll see what happens because the hot news it just |
| 1:25.6 | came out the new Macbook Pro the 16-inch that we've been waiting for for an |
| 1:30.1 | age. It feels like at least a year has has finally been unleashed unceremoniously I should say this morning very early this morning and |
| 1:40.4 | There are already reviews out for it because Apple invited a bunch of members of |
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