Episode 91: 91: Adolescence
Hypercritical
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🗓️ 26 October 2012
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the new hardware announced at the October 23rd Apple event: the latest Retina MacBook Pro, whether the new iMac is too skinny or too fat, the little information we currently know about Fusion Drive, and, of course, the new iPads, both mini and Retina.
Links for this episode:
- Intel Z68 Chipset & Smart Response Technology (SSD Caching) Review - AnandTech
- Hypercritical #17: Intruding Gooseneck
- AnandTech - Seagate's Momentus XT Reviewed, Finally a Good Hybrid HDD
- Macminicolo Blog (Impressions of the 2012 Mac mini (updated))
- Does this aluminum back make me look fat?
- Hands-on with the thumb-able iPad mini and the ultrathin iMac - Ars Technica
- Apple Fusion Drive—wait, what? How does this work? - Ars Technica
- A short history of btrfs - LWN.net
- Hypercritical #57: Computational Skeuomorphism
- B-Trees, Shadowing, and Clones (PDF) - Ohad Rodeh
- Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive - Apple.com
- Apple's white iPad mini sells out in 20 minutes - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
- Strange Game - The Magazine
- AnandTech - Understanding Apple's Fusion Drive
- Apple Special Event October 2012
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When I touch you, you move the cursor. |
| 0:02.0 | This is hypercritical, a weekly talk show remaining on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and |
| 0:13.8 | businesses. |
| 0:14.9 | Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be annihilated by my co-host John Syracusea. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Dan Benjamin. |
| 0:22.2 | Today is Friday, October 26, 2012. This is episode number 91 of |
| 0:30.4 | hypercritical. We would like to say thank you very, very much to our three sponsors, |
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| 1:06.8 | Hello John Sir Kissa, how are you this fine Friday afternoon? |
| 1:09.8 | Or morning, really? |
| 1:11.0 | I'm just fine. |
| 1:12.2 | Good. |
| 1:13.0 | Sound good today. |
| 1:14.0 | What'd you change? |
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