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Apple M2 is insane! Plus LEAKS on iPhone 14 & *15-inch* MacBook Air! (CultCast #549)

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week: The M2 benchmarks have leaked and this new chip is even better than we hoped. Plus: new details on iPhone 14, a 12 and 15-inch MacBook Air, and new 14-inch iPad Pro MAX.

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This week's stories

First MacBook Pro with speedy M2 chip goes up for preorder June 17 - Lewis, and then Erfon takes the benchmarks?!?

  • Preorders for the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro packing the powerful new Apple M2 processor will begin Friday, June 17, two weeks after it was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

iPhone 14’s front camera could get some much-needed upgrades

  • The iPhone’s front camera was last upgraded in September 2019 with the iPhone 11’s release. Apple bumped the camera resolution to 12MP and paired it with an f/2.2 lens. Since then, Android smartphones have added 40MP selfie cameras with autofocus, but iPhones have stuck with the same setup.

Win a multi-device charger with built-in MagSafe battery pack [Cult of Mac giveaway]

  • Worth $130, the MagEZ Slider from Pitaka is great way to charge your iPhone and AirPods on your desk or nightstand. But better yet, the charger has an integrated battery pack that attaches magnetically to your iPhone to continue charging away from home.

Apple pushes ahead with 15-inch M2 MacBook Air and 12-inch M2 MacBook

  • Apple is developing new form factors and planning upgrades for its MacBook lineup, Bloomberg reported Thursday. That should result in a 15-inch M2 MacBook Air and a new version of a 12-inch M2 MacBook arriving by late 2023 or early 2024.

Apple may launch 14.1-inch mini-LED iPad Pro with M2 chip

  • Apple is working on an iPad Pro with a 14.1-inch mini-LED display, ProMotion and Face ID, sources suggested on Thursday. Unfortunately for folks who are already salivating at the idea of such a big Apple tablet, it probably won’t arrive until early 2023.

Apple TV will stream all Major League Soccer games for 10 years

  • Cupertino unveiled a major new sports deal Tuesday, saying Apple TV will be the exclusive streaming destination for all Major League Soccer (MLS) games for 10 years, starting with the 2023 season.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You can make movies on it, you can keep all your music on it, you can even burn CDs on it, you can keep thousands of digital photos on it, you can even organize your organizer on it, you can keep your life on it, the new iBook, would you like that to go?

0:30.0

Hello, and welcome to the whole Cassie Best 30 plus bit of out conversation, you're going to hear, all week long, I'm your host, here from Elijah, join me today, he said a new record in the Cult of Mac writers cage last week, keeping the team awake and typing for seven straight days by the end, by the end, several writers have lost their sanity, and we're hallucinating, but our site productivity has never been higher, he's imagining I never called the Mac, ooh, it's Wallace's here,

1:00.0

yeah, it's about how it felt actually, there's going to be a book about you someday, Lewis, when you're in prison, they're going to write a book about you in all your ways, and how you kept the Cult of Mac writers motivated, quote unquote, I think it's probably going to be more of a pamphlet, how you track them down when they got away, how you spent years practicing your steer roping techniques, so that you can catch them on horseback when they're trying to get away, that was really the most important

1:30.0

like one of the most impressive parts of your story is you just spent two or three years just circling the the rope around and like trying to rope things, you know, you started off with that stationary object, what was it, like a barrel with horns on it, and then you increased it to moving animals, and then finally Cult of Mac writers that when they're running away, they think they got away and then the rope goes around them, you drag them home on the horse, Lewis, no one's, no one's better than you, you're the best, this is a high praise,

2:00.0

that's why Leander keeps you on staff there. All right, well, my friends, we have a lot to talk about this week, let me pull up my notes, we got to talk about apples M2, because this is, this is quite an upgrade, it's even faster than I had, I had expected, and some of the early benchmarks have come out, and there are some surprising facts and figures about the M2 that I think you're going to like, so we'll talk about that's also, of course, the

2:30.0

pre-orders for the M2 MacBook Pro are happening, but probably by the time you hear this, they've probably already happened, but they're happening on Friday the 17th, we've got some more leaks about the iPhone 14 that I think you're really going to like, we have absolutely wonderful giveaway for all of you, this is going to be one for the, for the ages, this is going to be one that you're really going to want to answer, because I think you're going to want to win this item, and we've got some more information on a 15 inch MacBook Air, which, I'm going to

3:00.0

say, I think for most people is going to be the perfect computer, the M2 15 inch MacBook Air, might be the most perfect computer apples ever made, for most people, we'll talk a little bit about that, there is a 14 inch iPad Pro incoming, I mean, it's just one thing after another, and we forgot to dial this in Lewis, should we talk about the LG display, that new wacky one, we'll talk about it if we have time, how about that, because we got, you know,

3:30.0

we got a hard stop today, right, we got a hard stop because we're running out of time on our recorder, that's a two story, because Lewis and I, we, before the show, we were trying to actually go live, but we ended up just chitchatting for like 40, 40, 45 minutes or so, and then we always say we're not going to do it, but it happens every single week, and, and then we run out of time on our recorder, so let's just go ahead and dive right in before we do that, though, oh shoot, oh shoot, I forgot to,

3:59.2

God, dear, see, this is, this is, we always are coming off right off the bat.

4:02.8

Oh my goodness, it worked, I don't know how that worked, but my browser was automatically input into, uh, there we go, wow, okay, it worked, I can't believe it.

4:11.4

I'm going to go ahead and give a very hardy thank you to myself for supporting this episode, my friends,

4:17.6

co-cloth, I'm telling you, cocloth.co, the order is just keep coming in.

4:23.1

I don't even talk about cocloth that often, and the orders just keep coming, we keep running out.

4:30.0

And I actually want to apologize to a lot, anyone who's had a late order, because we've had a lot of late orders lately,

4:35.8

because we'll just keep running out and we'll have to read stock stuff and we're having inventory problems, just like everybody else.

4:43.0

But if you haven't got your order of cocloth in and you want to, we just got restocked, so things are shipping really fast now.

4:49.9

And if you're unfamiliar with what cocloth is, it's just the best way to keep your gadgets, your lenses, your sunglasses, your glasses, sparkling clean.

4:58.2

Cocloth is made from a special fiber that goes through this process that breaks down the fiber, so that it has a lot of surface area, so it drastically enhances its cleaning ability.

5:08.1

And I always say, you can feel it working, if you rub it on your fingertips, you actually feel the cocloth duo grabbing onto your fingertips, and that's what it does with all of the grime and grease.

5:17.6

And particles all over your glasses, your sunglasses, your MacBook Pro, your iPhone, and it reaches down into the crevasses, Lewis.

5:26.5

The place is that-

5:27.1

It sounds creepy, creepy!

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