#429 - Here comes Apple's ARM Mac (and AirTags!)
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🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week: Apple’s first ARM-based Mac is headed our way—we’ll tell you what we know.
Plus, Apple’s new AirTags tracking tiles will be unlike anything we’ve seen, and way more powerful than we thought. We discuss! And stay tuned—we’ll tell you the weird rule Apple makes big movies follow if they want to put iPhones or Macs on the silver screen.
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This week's stories
Apple’s first Mac with a custom chip expected in early 2021
- This would be Apple’s first computer powered by a custom Arm chipset. It would also be the first brand-new Mac to launch without an Intel CPU since Apple made the switch from PowerPC processors back in 2006.
AirTags Said to Be 'Completely Waterproof' and Use Magnetic Charging Like Apple Watch
- In a report touching on several topics today, Japanese site Mac Otakara claims that Apple's Tile-like "AirTags" item trackers will be "completely waterproof" and use similar magnetic wireless charging to that seen on the Apple Watch.
Apple should steal this iPad multitasking concept right now
- This amazing mockup/concept was executed by design student Tommy Rutherling using the Principle app to create the interactive animations.
Director Rian Johnson Breaks Down a Scene from 'Knives Out'
- Write and director Rian Johnson talks about making his new movie Knives Out, but in the process reveals a insider tidbit about using Apple products in movies
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| 0:00.0 | I expect to be totally amazed at what people are going to do with Macintosh. |
| 0:05.0 | Every person, unique individual brings something to the machine, just as the machine brings something to them. |
| 0:11.0 | And the interaction between the two makes amazing things happen and I |
| 0:15.0 | expect people to use Macintosh's to totally blow my mind two years out you know |
| 0:20.9 | they'll just be incredible energy that's going to be put into it |
| 0:24.8 | is really going to do some amazing things. |
| 0:28.6 | Hello and welcome to the local guys, the best 30 plus minute out of the conversation |
| 0:34.9 | you're gonna hear all week long I'm your host Air Finalizer joining me today |
| 0:39.1 | he's the monarch of Mac and he's got a whole assortment of powdered white wakes to prove it. |
| 0:44.0 | The founder of Colto Mac, Leander Caney is here. |
| 0:47.0 | Ha ha! |
| 0:48.0 | Also with us, when he says your deadline's at two two he doesn't just mean your apple story he's talking about your life |
| 0:56.8 | Managing editor of Colto Mack Lewis Wallace is here |
| 1:00.6 | I'm ready |
| 1:01.6 | Wow That's very good check. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh boy, let's see here. |
| 1:09.0 | We've got all sorts of really good apple stories to talk about this week. If you were |
| 1:14.9 | wondering about the first Mac with the custom arm chip from Apple, well you just |
| 1:21.7 | stay tuned. We're going to talk about that in mere moments. I've got |
| 1:24.9 | some details on air tags that I think you're going to be really interested in hearing. In fact, even |
| 1:30.6 | if you're not interested in air tags, I was kind of lukewarm on them, but after getting |
| 1:36.2 | some more information about what they're going to be able to do with these things, I think |
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