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599: Then I Went a Step Beyond... Actually Two Steps

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Relay

News, Federico, Hurley, Federico Viticci, Apple, Macstories, Hackett, Tech News, Technology

4.5776 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 599 of the connected podcast from Relay.

0:13.6

This episode is brought to you by Mercury Weather, Squarespace and Steam Clock.

0:18.4

My name is Mike Hurley, and I have the pleasure of introducing Prince Flexi Federico Petitsi.

0:23.8

Hi, Federico.

0:24.6

Hello, Mike.

0:25.7

How are you?

0:26.4

I'm good.

0:26.9

It's just me and you today.

0:28.1

Yes.

0:28.6

We will hopefully all be together next week.

0:32.2

Hopefully.

0:32.7

For episode 600.

0:35.1

I want to warn you that currently the show note document that we have in notion of episode 600, I think there are two topics where it just says hold for Stephen. So we've got that one to look forward to, I guess.

0:49.3

Ominous.

0:50.3

We'll too. Yeah, kind of.

0:52.3

I got a bit of follow up for you. This, so we were talking, me and Stephen were talking last time about the, the fact that the MacBook Neo has the self-service repair parts available now on the, they're like portal. And I was like, oh, could you buy different colors and swap things around?

1:17.5

And Stephen said, because as it has been in the past, no, you need to give them your serial number and it just lets you buy replacement parts that are like for like.

1:32.3

But it seems that now, I've got a report from the Verge, we're also reporting something from that MacWold found, that you can choose the colors of the parts that you buy, irrespective of the model of MacBook Neo that you have.

1:34.0

So in theory, you could get a new keyboard, a new top case in different colors and swap

1:40.0

them around.

1:42.1

And that is especially interesting for anybody who is even just a little bit tinkery,

1:47.6

because apparently this computer is so easy to take apart.

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