45: Give Up On The Retina Dream
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2013
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
- Explaining our podcast artwork.
- Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness.
- Dual-input displays and how they enable the 5120x2880 display that John and Marco want.
- Turbo Boost and the Mac Pro's CPU options.
- Using a laptop on a stand with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
- The benefits of desktops and ECC.
- Mac Pro configurations for best value and future-proofing.
- Building separate gaming PCs, switching to iMacs, or trying to wedge PC gaming into Mac Pros.
- Mac Pro price stratification over time.
- Outlook 2011 for Mac complaints and John's multiple-selection-invalidation bug.
- Casey said some stuff at the end.
- Special holiday theme song by Jonathan Mann.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The show should not be that long. |
| 0:03.3 | People keep asking us about the show, |
| 0:05.8 | the artwork for the show. |
| 0:07.2 | I moved that down, but okay, we can talk about it now. |
| 0:09.6 | Let's follow up, I think. |
| 0:10.5 | So I want Marco to address that because it is a common, |
| 0:13.4 | a frequently asked question. |
| 0:15.2 | Yes. So right now the show has two pieces of artwork. |
| 0:18.3 | It has the old Mac Pro with the new badge on it as the official one on the feed. |
| 0:22.0 | Ever since WBC, I've been embedding in the embedded artwork in each file, |
| 0:26.8 | the black Mac Pro with the new badge over it as kind of a joke from WBC. |
| 0:33.3 | Since roughly then, we've been trying to get better artwork made. |
| 0:37.6 | And the biggest problem, we've talked to a few designers over the last six months or so. |
| 0:41.8 | The biggest problem is that we have had no ideas. |
| 0:44.3 | And so we ask a designer like, hey, we'd love to have you do something for us. |
| 0:50.1 | And of course, all good designers are always busy. |
| 0:53.0 | And so they ask us, okay, well, what do you want? |
| 0:55.5 | And we're like, we have no ideas except that it should contain the text, |
| 1:00.9 | accidental tech podcast because all other podcasts contain their name in their artwork. |
| 1:06.9 | And therefore many podcast clients are designed to not even show the title. |
| 1:11.1 | This is, I believe true in many sections of the iTunes podcast store, |
| 1:15.0 | where you can just see the square artwork and you don't even see the title. |
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