560: They’re All Rectangles
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco has discovered knobbed microwaves
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- Follow-up:
- Apple Event was “shot on iPhone”
- David Steer in defense of the M3-plain MacBook Pro
- Base configs make a difference, according to Ewan Makepeace
- Still no Face ID (via Tomer Shemesh)?
- 8 GB RAM has been the MacBook Pro baseline since 2014
- Dynamic Caching (via Nitesh Singh)
- The small-capacity SSDs are better now?
- Apple Silicon packaging and a potential M3 Ultra
- AnandTech confirms odd memory quantities (via Cameron McKay)
- More thoughts from Jonathan Dietz, Jr
- A new
ERR_NETWORK_CHANGEDerror report has entered the chat
- MacBook Pro order updates
#askatp:- How do we manage our physical photos? (via Steven)
- Why should we care about hardware AV1 decoding? (via Jack Johnson)
- How do we convince our loved ones to upgrade hardware? (via Christian Heile)
- Post-show: Humane’s AI pin leaks
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| 0:00.0 | Have either of you been told the good news yet, or do you preach the good news about knob-based |
| 0:08.4 | microwaves? |
| 0:10.2 | What? |
| 0:10.9 | I've heard the good news, which is the phrase that you're looking for. |
| 0:13.4 | Have you heard the good news? |
| 0:14.3 | I have heard the good news about non-based microwaves. |
| 0:17.3 | I am not convinced at all. |
| 0:19.5 | I don't have one. |
| 0:20.5 | I have my ancient microwave that doesn't really work, but I am not convinced. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm sorry, hold on. What were you talking about? So my recollection is one of my grandparents, I don't remember which side it was, had a truly ancient microwave, wherein you would spin a dial to get a gross approximation of how much time you would like to cook the thing in the microwave. |
| 0:40.9 | And you could set it to five. That could mean anything between three and a half and seven, but it said five. So sure, we'll go with that. Is that what we're talking about? |
| 0:49.0 | The original, like, old microwaves from, you know, before digital stuff was super commonplace, they were, |
| 0:55.5 | they all just had knobs. And it was, it was like, you know, like a, like a kitchen timer. |
| 0:59.3 | You turn it and we go, and then, you know, ding when it was done. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, |
| 1:03.9 | you know, everything got digital keypads throughout like the 80s and 90s. And, you know, that's what we knew. And that's what all microwaves are for the most part. |
| 1:11.9 | And then I think only recently I started hearing people say like, oh, you got to try one with |
| 1:16.1 | knobs. Well, I think you missed the middle period. After the digital, where you had a bunch of |
| 1:20.6 | numbers and you would type in the time, there was this fairly dark time that extended until very |
| 1:25.4 | recently, which was, yeah, okay, maybe there's number |
| 1:29.0 | pads, but also there's 17 other buttons with obscure pictures of things on them. |
| 1:35.4 | Chicken, popcorn, frozen food, meat, like just random pictures of stuff. |
| 1:42.1 | And then the real best one is the the the corporate microwave |
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