46: A Compromised Machine
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2014
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
- Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple parts.
- Scoring Apple's performance on John's 2013 to-do list.
- Concerns about Apple's recent Mac apps, including iWork '13 and Messages/iMessage.
- AnandTech's Mac Pro review.
- The Mac Pro's 4K/Retina monitor situation.
- The iMac vs. the Mac Pro, and the hardware needs of developers.
- Why do John and Marco care so much about Retina?
- What the next big computer-hardware shift may be.
- After-show: our future as old men, saturating USB 3, and the often-neglected Mac Mini.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Why don't you just build a game PC? |
| 0:01.8 | Your video card is slow. |
| 0:03.3 | There's some quick follow-up about, guess what? |
| 0:07.9 | The Mac Pro. |
| 0:09.3 | Well, come on, we did like a whole episode on it. |
| 0:11.3 | There's not gonna be zero follow-up. |
| 0:12.8 | I know, no, it's fine. |
| 0:15.9 | After we recorded last episode, |
| 0:18.1 | somebody took it apart. |
| 0:18.9 | I think it was first OWC |
| 0:20.7 | and then everyone else jumped on the reporting of it, |
| 0:23.5 | but basically they discovered that the Mac Pro CPU |
| 0:26.8 | is socketed and it has, |
| 0:28.9 | it's the regular standard Intel CPU |
| 0:31.6 | with the heat spreader on top, |
| 0:32.6 | so you can easily take it out and replace it. |
| 0:35.3 | And so everyone told me, |
| 0:36.8 | hey, you can buy the CPUs you wanted. |
| 0:41.0 | And more useful to everyone else, |
| 0:44.3 | hey, you can upgrade your Mac Pro CPU in the future. |
| 0:47.7 | Now, in all my history of building my own computers, |
| 0:52.0 | back when I was a PC guy, |
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