#423 - MacBook Pro is about to get PRO-ER
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🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week: Apple is working on a way to make your existing MacBook Pro far more powerful—we’ll tell you everything we know. Plus: get your wallet ready! Apple is getting ready to release the portable MacBook Pro you’ve been waiting for. And we’ll tell you why Apple may soon be forced ditch Lighting in their iPhones and iPads.
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This week's stories
Unreleased ‘Pro Mode’ may bring performance boost to MacBooks
- Apple is working on a new software feature for macOS that can crank Macs’ processing powers into overdrive.
Mystery MacBook spilled in new filing ahead of release
- Apple has filed for approval of a new MacBook ahead of its official debut. A listing in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database reveals a model number of “A2289.” Its description confirms it is a portable Mac.
EU Parliament debates forcing Apple to kill the Lightning port
- The European Parliament will soon vote on whether to require all phones, tablets and other mobile devices to use a single type of charger. If passed, this could force Apple to abandon its proprietary Lighting port in future iPhones.
US Attorney General demands Apple unlock Pensacola shooter’s iPhones
- Apple could be headed for another collision course with U.S. federal law enforcement, similar to the spat it had with the FBI over creating backdoors into iOS.
Dave Bautista battles onto next season of See
- Jason Momoa was the big star of the first season of See on Apple TV+, but he’s reportedly being joined by Dave Bautista, perhaps best known for playing Drax the Destroyer in the Guardians of the Galaxy series.
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| 0:00.0 | For me it's about three years of my life working really hard to perfect each part. |
| 0:05.7 | I think it's really a challenge for me to do in 50 integrated circuits what a lot of people have taken hundreds and hundreds of chips. |
| 0:14.4 | The Mac Logic Board has about one-sixth the components of an IBM personal computer. |
| 0:18.4 | It actually draws about 25% the power of an IBM Personal Computer logic board and for me that was really a challenge. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello and welcome to the co-caste Best 30 plus minute out of the conversation you're going to hear all week long. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm your host, Air Fonelizer. |
| 0:36.2 | Joining me today, he's finally back from his weeks-long jaunts in Italy and |
| 0:40.1 | Croatia where locals have nicknamed him La Prancoroni because of the |
| 0:44.8 | whims koway he struts about Lewis Wallace is here. |
| 0:48.0 | La Prancoroni that's great I'm gonna have to get a t-shirt printed up with that |
| 0:51.5 | on it maybe even even something at Silk. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, absolutely. It needs to be Silk. Also with us, he's the Baron of Beers, the Marquez of Merleau, |
| 1:00.0 | the Duke of Dachereis. Ladies and gentlemen, he's the count of Cult of Mac. |
| 1:05.0 | Leandercaney is here. |
| 1:07.0 | Hello. |
| 1:08.0 | That's practically every British nobility title that I could find on Wikipedia. |
| 1:12.0 | That was a pretty good list. |
| 1:13.0 | The only one left was Queen, but that seems to me. |
| 1:16.0 | This is my case and Prince and Baronet. |
| 1:19.0 | Baronet, but that's female, isn't it? |
| 1:21.0 | Baron is the male version. |
| 1:22.0 | Baronet, I believe it is. |
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