Here come the M2 MacBook Pros! (CultCast #490)
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🗓️ 30 April 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week: redesigned M2 MacBook Pros are incoming! And they’re gonna be awesome… we’ll tell you everything we know.
Plus: we’ll bring you the highlights from Apple’s blockbuster quarter, and discuss the two insanely great features introduced in iOS 14.5.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The hard part of test driving a Macintosh isn't taking it home. |
| 0:09.0 | The hard part isn't plugging it in. |
| 0:13.0 | The hard part of test driving a Macintosh isn't even learning how to use it. |
| 0:19.0 | The hard part of taking Macintosh out for a test drive is bringing it back. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to Cassie Fest, 30 plus minute up conversation you're going to hear all week long on your host. |
| 0:40.0 | Everyone allows you to join me today. |
| 0:42.0 | He's been tased so many times by Apple Campus Security. |
| 0:45.0 | He's built up a tolerance. |
| 0:46.0 | Now it takes at least three simultaneous tasers to bring him down to get him off the campus. |
| 0:51.0 | He's the brother of Feltzeback. |
| 0:53.0 | Land of Katie is here. |
| 0:55.0 | Also with us, now that lockdown restrictions have relaxed, |
| 0:59.0 | he's letting the Coltomac riders out of their pens for daily exercise, 30 minutes of yard activity. |
| 1:05.0 | They walk around, they stretch, they peck at bugs and other varmants. |
| 1:09.0 | They're a lot happier. |
| 1:10.0 | He's the back together of Coltomac. |
| 1:12.0 | Ooh, what swallow is this here? |
| 1:15.0 | I think that's fair. |
| 1:16.0 | I think it's fair. |
| 1:18.0 | It's amazing what a little sunshine and digging with your feet and pecking at bugs. |
| 1:25.0 | Get that all important vitamin E. |
| 1:26.0 | Get so much more protein now, you know? |
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