Mac Power Users, episode 529, the State of the Mac 2020. Hello everyone this is David Sparks joined by my fellow co-host Mr Stephen Hackett

hello Stephen how are you today I'm good David how are you? I'm doing great man

I well I guess that's a relative term given the way things are going right now. I'm doing pretty good and and I'm looking forward to talking about the Mac today. We got a lot of content. You know we're doing the state of shows this year we've finally got to the

Mac you know the the device after which this show is named but yeah we got a lot to talk

about the Mac about where the hardware and the software is and where it's heading in the future and what we like and don't like.

But I thought before we got started we should we do have a few preliminary announcements.

This week, Apple, in addition to releasing new Macs

that we'll talk about in the content of the show.

They also released a new iPad Pro, a new keyboard,

and they added some real cool features to the iPad of West.

We're going to talk about that at the end of the show.

I feel like that one is worthy of coverage on MPU so that's going to be the last segment today. I wanted to

point out something Stephen's doing over his site and as I mentioned earlier

things are rough right now for a lot of folks. Stephen wanted to bring a little joy to the world so he made a

Mac Madness contest. You'll find it at 512 pixels.net slash Madness.

It's like March Madness but for for Max. And it's cool.

It's like bracketing and you vote for your favorite Max.

And every, I said every week that you hit another tier.

Yeah, it's about every four or five days so that the thing will run through the

beginning of April. So as this episode comes out there's still a week left and you

know I think I've missed basketball more than I wanted to admit to anybody.

I was like, what could we do?

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