682: Medium Core
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Follow-up:
- An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
- MacBook Neo
- John’s theory about color & clamshells
- The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
- Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
- MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
- SSD speeds (via The Verge)
- The logo
- iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
- Jason’s review
- Dave2D’s review
- Teardown
- Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
- New in Xcode 24.6β3:
CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA(H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)H17Sis the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
- Quinn’s review
- M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
- Baidu leakers
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- 4.61 GHz
- 10-wide decoding
- Performance cores (“M-Core”)
- 4.38 GHz
- 7-wide decoding
- ~70% the performance of a Super Core
- Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
- Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
- 3.05 GHz
- 6-wide decoding
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- Andrew Cunningham at Ars
- L2 cache
- Super: 16 MB
- Performance: 8 MB
- Efficiency: 6MB
- Minimum clock speed:
- Super: 1,308 MHz
- Performance: 1,344 MHz
- Efficiency: 972 MHz
- L2 cache
- Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- New in Xcode 24.6β3:
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
- UFO Test
- MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
- Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)
- Superwide viewing angle
- Timing controller (TCON)
- Calibration
- Display optimization modes
- Formula 1 news
- Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
- Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
- 2026 season preview
- F1TV vs. Apple TV
- Romain Grosjean’s
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
- Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There is in the show notes document, there is something that's pre-show, colon. |
| 0:04.9 | Casey has something that's about 60 seconds barring tangents. |
| 0:09.2 | Now, this is us, right? |
| 0:11.8 | Well, no, I think Casey's talking about himself. |
| 0:14.4 | Sometimes he causes his own tangents in the middle of his own thought, and that leads to |
| 0:19.0 | long digressions. |
| 0:20.4 | You know, that reminds me, no, I'm just kidding. |
| 0:22.9 | So I have to bring us to our favorite, our mutual, the three of us, our collective favorite |
| 0:27.9 | corner, which is an anniversary corner, because today, as we record, is March 11th of |
| 0:34.4 | 2026. |
| 0:35.0 | I think you should, you should force us both to guess because I have no idea, but this is the anniversary of Marco? You have any idea? Is it, I mean, it could be our show. We started at sometime in the early part of the year. So it could be the show. I'm going to say the show. I thought it was February. Well, uh, neutral was January 11 or something like that, maybe 17. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm just going to look it up, but I'm forcing myself not to, but I honestly have no idea what this is an anniversary of, Casey. Please tell us. |
| 1:00.3 | All right. So I will put a link in the show notes, but this is a tweet from the 11th of March 2013 from Casey Liss. |
| 1:08.8 | Listen to Marco Arm and Syracuse and I talk tech if cars isn't your thing, the accidental |
| 1:13.6 | tech podcast at ATP.fm. |
| 1:16.2 | So we are 13 years in as of today, gentlemen, look at us. |
| 1:20.4 | Very nice. |
| 1:20.8 | That was the publication of episode one. |
| 1:22.6 | I believe that's right. |
| 1:24.1 | That'd have to look. |
| 1:24.8 | I think that's right. |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, hold on. |
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