Episode 7: 7: ThunderCats
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2011
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk a bit more about connectors before moving on to the big Apple news: new MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt i/o and the first developer preview release of Mac OS X Lion.
Links for this episode:
- Apple - Thunderbolt: Next-generation high-speed I/O technology.
- Apple - Mac OS X Lion
- Apple - The new MacBook Pro
- What you need to know about Thunderbolt - Macworld
- Bi-directional USB plug concept
- The Loudness War - Wikipedia
- A video explaining the Loudness War - YouTube
- HDtracks - high-quality digital music store, no DRM
- Apple supposedly in talks to increase the quality of the audio in the iTunes music store
- Thunderbolt security concerns - The Register
- Leaked screenshots from the Lion developer preview - MacStories
- More leaked Lion screenshots from AppleInsider
- What we know about Mac OS X Lion - Ars Technica
- Intel HD Graphics 3000 performance tests - AnandTech
- Intel's Thunderbolt technology brief (PDF)
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical episode number seven. |
| 0:04.8 | It's a weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of |
| 0:09.0 | Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:11.3 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about and the man |
| 0:16.4 | in charge of complaining here the head complainer chief of complaints is John |
| 0:21.1 | Syracusea hey John and. How are you today? |
| 0:25.0 | I'm a little bit sick but I'm ready to complain. |
| 0:27.0 | A little yes and you're ready you could even complain about being sick if you want. |
| 0:31.0 | I could but no one wants to hear that we'd like to say thanks right up front to |
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| 1:12.0 | Lying. Can you hear it? |
| 1:15.0 | We're not ready for that yet. |
| 1:17.0 | Not ready, all right. |
| 1:18.0 | I thought I'd give a little teaser what's to come. |
| 1:20.0 | All right. |
| 1:21.0 | All right, well I think people can guess, but we got to do some follow-up first. |
| 1:24.5 | Okay. |
| 1:25.5 | So I guess I have a trim selection of follow-up today and it has a lot to do with connectors, which will tie into our later discussion of the new |
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