Apple launches new MacBook Neo, Studio Display XDR, MacBook Pro, more
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šļø 6 March 2026
ā±ļø 83 minutes
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Summary
Chance and Zac break down Appleās Mac announcements of the week. Thereās the M5 MacBook Air and more powerful MacBook Pro models with an intriguing new chip architecture and naming scheme. Plus, the new Studio Display āfamilyā is here with good and bad news. Finally, Chance recounts his trip to NYC where he saw the launch of the all-new MacBook Neo.Ā
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Benjamin Mayo
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| 0:00.0 | Should we roll the intro music just to troll Mayo while he's on vacation? |
| 0:03.7 | I can go get a guitar. |
| 0:05.5 | Maybe even better. |
| 0:13.0 | That's the running bit is that Mayo is the reason there's no music. |
| 0:16.0 | And I am the reason there's no video. |
| 0:17.6 | So make of that what you will. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm here for music and video but uh this you know |
| 0:22.4 | who am i say well welcome back to your show zach filling in for mayo while he is traversing |
| 0:29.3 | japan is it like riding a bike it's like his first time ever off the show i think and that's a pretty |
| 0:34.9 | cool reason to to be off the show and in terms of |
| 0:37.9 | podcasting is it like riding a bike it's like riding a bike in that I recently bought a |
| 0:43.2 | new bicycle and you don't you don't forget how to ride a bike but it's your gets |
| 0:48.4 | tougher if you haven't for a while well the good news is we have plenty to talk |
| 0:53.9 | about and keep us on track for the week. |
| 0:56.0 | Because I think Mayo is also concerned that we're going to go off the rails a little bit, but he's probably not even going to listen to this for a few weeks. |
| 1:02.5 | We're going to start with the M5 MacBook Air. |
| 1:05.0 | This was the continuation of, I guess it was Tuesday morning. |
| 1:09.0 | So after we recorded Monday night, Monday's episode, |
| 1:11.2 | of course, we talked about the 17E and the new iPad Air. |
| 1:14.9 | M5 MacBook Air, just a spec bump, N1 chip for Bluetooth 6 and Wi-Fi 7. |
| 1:20.8 | Like all M-5 processors, it has the neural accelerator for all the GPU cores, faster memory |
| 1:25.5 | bandwidth, faster SSD. |
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