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Accidental Tech Podcast

588: Sync Up Your Cycle

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 144 minutes

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0:00.0

So I need this to be a relatively short show which means we're going to go three plus hours.

0:05.0

Do you ever start a show by saying anything other than that case?

0:08.0

It's always like where you always got somewhere else to be. I need this to be a short show because I need to go fight crime in the neighborhood like you're secretly Batman.

0:15.8

John you have thoughts about your iPad pro with the m4 processor tell me more.

0:21.0

I've been using it every day as I do with my iPad. Not too much to note just a few things. One screen is real good. I have seen some people make some complaints about the screen online that like they think

0:34.9

areas that are just barely not black look a little speckly or dithery they might have

0:40.9

way better vision than I do but if you look real close at like an O-Ed TV,

0:45.0

when it's in a region of the screen that is like really dark gray, you'll see the same thing.

0:51.0

I can't see whatever it is that they're seeing on the screen with any of my

0:55.6

corrective lenses or uncorrected eyes. So it's nice to be almost 50 I guess.

1:01.2

The brightness is not too bright which I was glad about because it can go super

1:05.4

super bright but when I'm in a dark bedroom I can still turn it down to be

1:08.4

reasonable loving that

1:13.0

the black bars letterbox top and bottom

1:15.0

and those just disappear into the room.

1:17.0

I did also see some people who had they're like,

1:19.0

oh, the blacks aren't really black on my o-led.

1:21.0

That will happen if the thing that is projecting the

1:25.0

image on the display doesn't specify black for those regions. What I told

1:28.1

those people is make yourself a black image that you know is 100% black and just

1:32.3

fill the screen with that like in the

1:33.4

photos app or something it should be completely black and mine is like if the

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