Get ready for Apple’s 2022 Hardware EXPLOSION (CultCast #525)
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🗓️ 31 December 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week: Apple is about to COMPLETE their move to Apple silicon, which means we're in for an EXPLOSION of new hardware in 2022, including an iMac "Pro", redesigned MacBook Air, new iPads, new Mac Pro, and new Mac Mini "Pro"!
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This week's stories
What to expect from iMac in 2022
- 2022 could be the year Apple takes iMac to the next level. Various leaks point to an iMac Pro with a blazing-fast processor and a beautiful screen.
What to expect from MacBook Air and the M2 processor in 2022
- The 2022 MacBook Air will reportedly look different even at first glance, with the classic tapered design being replaced with a squarer casing reminiscent of the 2021 MacBook Pro, but even slimmer. The more svelte design will supposedly still have room for a pair of USB-C ports as well as MagSafe charging, though. And it’ll allegedly be available in the same range of colors as the 2021 iMac.
What to expect from iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini and basic iPad in 2022
- Apple won‘t let the iPad languish in 2022. Most notably, some big improvements are reportedly coming to the display and charging capabilities of the iPad Pro line.
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Apple hires Meta AR comms chief for its rumored headset launch
- Apple reportedly hired Meta’s AR communications chief recently, a move that fits with Cupertino’s long-rumored plan to launch an augmented reality/virtual reality headset.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm a Mac and I'm a PC. I can't believe 2007's over PC. It was a great year though |
| 0:04.6 | How about it? Not really. What do you mean? I came out with Vista that didn't work very well |
| 0:08.6 | Some people are downgrading to XP |
| 0:10.4 | Meanwhile you come out with your new operating system leopard and new iMac lots of new iPods |
| 0:14.2 | Oh the iPhone. I almost forgot the iPhone right. It's terrible here |
| 0:17.8 | But next year looking forward to the future 2008 is going to be the year of the PC |
| 0:23.2 | That's great attitude PC. What do you got plan? What are you doing? I'm just gonna copy everything you did in 2007 |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Cassie Best 30 plus from an Apple conversation. You're gonna hear all week long. I'm your host |
| 0:39.3 | Airfront Elijah join me today while Andy Cainey is out of vacationing again |
| 0:45.2 | He of course is left doing all the dirty work in the Coltomac world headquarters |
| 0:50.2 | Preparing slot for the riders spreading them with the hose for cleaning time |
| 0:54.1 | Running them down on horseback when they escape. He's the managing editor of Coltomac. Oh |
| 0:58.8 | Smell this is here. Yeah |
| 1:01.4 | Good thing is now with the COVID everybody's got the COVID and so they can't smell the slop |
| 1:07.9 | So I |
| 1:09.4 | I thought I had COVID back when all of this started right right when everything was started and |
| 1:15.2 | I did lose my sense of smell and my sense of taste for a whole week |
| 1:20.3 | It was the strangest thing have you ever lost your sense of taste for a period of time? |
| 1:24.1 | I mean I've been accused of having no sense of taste |
| 1:27.3 | But yeah, no, I have not had a girlfriend want to do couldn't smell anything hit her head when she was a kid |
| 1:34.8 | Really never regained her sense of smell that came in handy |
| 1:38.8 | Uh that's that's really that's really interesting. I wonder if um she'd go like a chiropractor and like get it back or something anyway |
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