All-new MacBook Pros, iMacs, Mac Pro minis, incoming! (CC #481)
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🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This week: we got new details and leaks on the upcoming MacBook Pros, iMacs, and Mac Pro mini… or will it be the Mac Mini Pro??? Plus: lossless music is coming to Spotify, which means the mythical Apple Music lossless is also coming our way.
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Blast from the past: 2021 iMac could bring back multiple colors
- Apple leaker Jon Prosser shared renders of the upcoming new iMac design. Visually, it looks a lot like Apple’s Pro Display XDR, with a hint of iPad Pro. However, the big difference is that this year’s iMac supposedly will come in a range of colors.
Exciting new render previews Mac Pro mini
- Apple leaker Jon Prosser shared the first image of what he claims is Apple’s forthcoming "Mac Pro mini" in his latest FrontPageTech video, along with news about the multiple color options for the forthcoming iMac redesign.
HDMI port and SD card reader supposedly will return to MacBook Pro this year
- TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros to launch in the second half of this year.
How to tell if Silver Sparrow malware is hiding on your Mac
- Some of the first malware targeting both M-series and Intel Macs has affected thousands of computers. At this point, the malicious code — called “Silver Sparrow” — is not dangerous, and Apple may have pulled its teeth. But users of the latest macOS computers still might want to know if their device has it. And the same goes for owners of Intel-based Macs. Here’s how to find out if your computer has been hit.
Spotify HiFi will bring CD-quality audio to 'select markets' this year
- The company confirmed today that it plans to launch a Spotify HiFi service in 'select markets' later this year.
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| 0:00.0 | The real genius of Macintosh, Apple's newest personal computer, isn't it's 32-bit microprocessor? |
| 0:09.0 | Or that it captures the power of a mainframe on a board 10 by 10 inches? |
| 0:14.0 | Or even that it costs half as much as computers have as powerful? |
| 0:19.0 | The real genius of Macintosh is that you don't have to be a genius to use it. |
| 0:25.0 | Macintosh, the computer for the rest of us. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, and welcome to the whole Cassney Bass 30-plus-minute app conversation. |
| 0:35.0 | You're going to hear all week long on your host. |
| 0:38.0 | AirFinalized, you're joining me today. |
| 0:40.0 | Little known fact, he's been barred from entering Apple Campus, not because of his penchant for scuffles and love of elicit substances. |
| 0:48.0 | Before his repeated instances of streaking and pressing his bear buttocks against his spaceship's outer glass. |
| 0:55.0 | Then there was that episode where he, it was cold outside, this cheek scot stuck. |
| 0:59.0 | Security had to come with warm water. He's the founder of Coltomac. |
| 1:02.0 | Lanarkini is here. |
| 1:04.0 | Also with us, if he catches mistakes in your Coltomac story, get ready because when he's done editing your piece, |
| 1:10.0 | he's going to come to edit your face with the back of his hand. |
| 1:13.0 | He's called Coltomac's fair but aggressive managing editor. |
| 1:17.0 | Lewis Wallace is here. |
| 1:21.0 | That's great. |
| 1:23.0 | Is that the editing technique? |
| 1:25.0 | That's the editing technique. |
| 1:27.0 | We just call it the technique right there. |
| 1:29.0 | Once they get one of these, what is it that is so funny about the backhanded slap? |
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