590: Buy Your Car an iPhone
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 157 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Marco’s fans
- Follow-up:
- Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
- Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
- Windows Recall is a security “disaster”
- AMD enters the AI chat
- Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs
- When Apple said “The M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores” they really meant “9 GPU cores”
- How LLMs learn
- Retrieval-augmented generation (via Adeiko)
- On ∞ context (via Stephen Tierney)
- WWDC Preview
- Ask ATP:
- Any chance the expected late-2024 M4 MacBook Pro gets Thunderbolt 5? (via James)
- Any chance we’ll get 16GB RAM in the eventual M4 MacBook Air? (via David Martin)
- Could the lack of cellular Mac be because there’s no Apple modem? (via Winnie Lewis)
- Post-show Neutral: Kid cars, revisited
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s in-car dreams are a bit of a 🎢
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| 0:00.0 | I have a ridiculous product category that I would like to briefly review. |
| 0:05.0 | This is going to be interesting, carry on. |
| 0:08.0 | Do you remember a few, maybe six months ago, it was a while ago I remember what it was it was when the new |
| 0:14.2 | iPhones came out. Remember they ran a little warm and we were discussing briefly |
| 0:18.8 | how isn't it annoying when you first get a new iPhone and it has to like re-index everything as it's |
| 0:24.4 | being all set up and everything and it's indexing all your photos and it gets really hot and maybe |
| 0:28.4 | slows down and throttles its performance as a result. And we jokingly discovered that Razor, the gaming PC company, they make a magnetic clip-off, a mag safe mounting cooling fan with a thermal electric element slash |
| 0:45.8 | peltee however you pronounce those with with one of those in it to to help cool |
| 0:51.4 | phones while gaming. |
| 0:52.8 | Do you about to pull a Casey? |
| 0:54.4 | What does that mean? |
| 0:55.6 | Talk about something that we've talked about in past episodes already? |
| 0:58.3 | Oh, well, fair. |
| 0:59.3 | That is 100% pulling a Casey. |
| 1:00.6 | Let's see, let's see, let's see, let's sit back and watch. |
| 1:02.0 | He just said that we |
| 1:02.8 | what we spoke about in the past so he's clear he's acknowledged it go ahead and also well I |
| 1:09.1 | thought I have to try this. Why? |
| 1:13.0 | Why? Why do you need to cool your phone? |
| 1:16.0 | About once a year, I need that because when I'm like setting up a new iPhone, |
| 1:21.0 | it's really kind of terrible. |
| 1:22.0 | So I thought, you know what, what the heck? |
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