681: The Price of Your Nightmares
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 167 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- Million Dollar Homepage
- 2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
- 2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
- M4 iPad Air
- iPhone 17e
- New displays (‼️)
- Studio Display 2
- Studio Display XDR
- M5 MacBook Air
- M5 Pro & M5 Max
- M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
- MacBook Neo
- Post-show: John had a post break containment
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Let me start by saying I'm a little congested, nasly, whatever. It's not because Marco screwed up the editor or anything like that. I'm just ever so slightly under the weather. It's fine. However, I will redeem myself by telling you to, and although all of you who are listening, I have found the best website on the internet. Oh. Is this better than a million dollar homepage? Yes, especially because I didn't earn a million dollars from it. I think of all like the like the various like internet |
| 0:25.0 | collect, Is this better than a million dollar homepage? Yes, especially because I didn't earn a million dollars from it. |
| 0:21.7 | I think of all like the various like internet clever things, what an amazing winner that site was. |
| 0:29.9 | Oh God, yes. |
| 0:30.5 | What like, because it's the kind of thing like it only works once. |
| 0:32.9 | Yep. |
| 0:33.3 | And even if it could work another time, it wouldn't be cool if somebody did it again. |
| 0:36.7 | Like it only works once. |
| 0:38.2 | It only works for the first person to try it. And what a fun, weird idea that was. Yeah, so for those that aren't familiar, what this was, and jump in and interrupt me when you're ready, but it was like each pixel or something like that was a dollar and there were a million pixels on the homepage so you could buy any number of pixels |
| 0:55.2 | at a dollar apiece and over the you know over the entire million pixels on the home page |
| 1:00.0 | that's a million bucks and it's still at million dollar homepage.com incredibly good idea and |
| 1:05.8 | I'm really impressed by it but like you said it's so tiny on my big monitor now in my big |
| 1:10.6 | modern monitor oh well it's not that on my big monitor now, my big modern monitor. |
| 1:11.9 | Oh, well, it's not that modern. We'll talk about that. This glorious one megapixel image. |
| 1:16.5 | I found the best website on the internet. Before we started recording, I asked both the boys what |
| 1:23.2 | their, what model year their cars were. And I asked because I was looking at, what is the |
| 1:31.6 | URL, auto catalog archive.com. So if you look in the chat and I'll put it in the show notes, |
| 1:37.3 | there, John, is the official brochure for the 2014 Honda Accord. And because it's my favorite |
| 1:43.5 | of all of Marcos cars, the 2013, as I always said, |
| 1:47.9 | 2013 BMW M5. |
| 1:49.2 | Unfortunately, the M5 catalog is the international one, whereas the Accord catalog or |
| 1:55.0 | brochure, if you will, is the American one. |
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