Apple Hardware Drop, incoming! (CultCast #469)
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🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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This week: get your wallets ready, Apple has a mysterious hardware release planned for December 8! Plus: the M1 Mac mini is an unstoppable monster, we’ve got more insane benchmarks to share. Seriously, do not waste your money on anything but an M1 Mac.
And Apple’s quietly bringing a much-welcomed feature to most older iPhones! You’re gonna like what you see, we guarantee it...
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This week's stories
Apple plans mysterious hardware release on December 8
- Apple could have a Christmas surprise up its sleeve.
M1 Mac mini runs Windows 10 far faster than Microsoft Surface Pro X
- New tests show relatively speedy performance for a Mac mini with an ARM-based Apple M1 processor running the ARM version of Windows 10. Even though the OS is running as a virtual machine, benchmarks show the device can handle X86 applications far faster than the Microsoft Surface Pro X, which also uses an ARM chip.
Don’t waste your money on anything but an M1 Mac
M1 13" MacBook Pro vs 16" MacBook Pro: I'm dumbfounded.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MUTS7xvKhQ
M1 Mac Mini vs Intel i7 Mac Mini + eGPU for Pro Apps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59gAjXT7qyw
iOS 14.2 Quietly Added FaceTime 1080p Support to iPhone 8 and Later Models
- Back in early November, Apple released iOS 14.2 and announced with it a slew of new features for iPhones, but one thing it didn't mention was the apparent addition of support for 1080p FaceTime calls on iPhone 8 and later devices.
iPhone 12 is Apple’s best-selling handset in years
- In the first weeks they were available, each of the iPhone 12 models sold far better than any of their predecessors released in the past three years, according to a research firm.
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| 0:00.0 | Now iPod enjoys a 65% market share and that's including every MP3 player. |
| 0:09.0 | All the flash players that people get as gifts and aren't even used are in that number. |
| 0:15.0 | 65% market share. |
| 0:18.0 | But when you look at just hard drive players, |
| 0:21.0 | iPod's market share is 92%. 92% market share. Now today we're introducing a |
| 0:30.0 | revolutionary new product for your iPod. Socks. Hello and welcome to Colecast the best 30 plus minute apple conversation |
| 0:45.8 | you're going to hear all week long I'm your host Airfront Eliza join me today |
| 0:49.2 | he's slam Duncan on all the other Apple bloggers just like cream Abdul-Jabar on a court full of fifth graders. |
| 0:56.6 | He's the founder of Colty Mac Landercaney is here. |
| 0:59.6 | AHR? |
| 1:00.6 | That should be your salutations. Also with us, and speaking of Duncan, no hairdo is safe. |
| 1:07.0 | If you don't get your apple story in on time, that heads swirled right in the Kolta Mac |
| 1:11.8 | world headquarters toilet, and you better pray that |
| 1:14.5 | LK wasn't the last one to use it if you know what I'm saying. |
| 1:17.5 | The managing end of the Colt the Mac Lewis Wells is here. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, don't give away these trade secrets. I heard he forgets the flush a lot. |
| 1:26.0 | He'll just go in there and it's like, whoa, what's that? He's trying to save the planet man. |
| 1:32.0 | What's the old sailing, the old sailing of its yellow, let it mellow, mellow, if it's brown flush it down? |
| 1:39.0 | That's about right, yeah. |
| 1:40.0 | Landers motto is, I just go and leave let the next person handle it it's just |
| 1:45.8 | join you know that's how it is in our house and our family everyone does it it just |
| 1:50.1 | is that the Kenny family motto? |
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