Welcome to the Apple Insider podcast, this is your host, Stephen Robles, and today, early

reviews of the new HomePod are out, we're going to talk about that. Samsung released

the Galaxy S23 Ultra with a huge megapixel camera, I want to talk about that. How to

not get your kid to accidentally order a thousand dollars on grub hub on your iPhone, and

we'll talk about some other various things, like foldable Macs and such. This episode is

brought to you by Collide, and joining me this week is my friend Wes Hilliard. How's it

going Wes? Okay, Stephen, surviving the winter anyway. Surviving the winter. To help

your survive, have you ordered any big home pods to keep you company? Oh yeah, I ordered

a stereo pair for the living room. Oh, you did. Oh, did you have the OG? Did you

have any OGs around? Oh, my house is full of home pods. I have, I believe, four original

home pods, yeah. Black or white, did you get black or midnight or white? Midnight, because

white is the devil. Well, we'll see. We're going to talk about some, you know, also make

marks if you have wood. So we'll get to that in a second. But I want to mention too, we've

talked about the M2 Max on last episode. Andrew O'Hare had an official review for the 16 inch

M2 Max MacBook Pro. I'll put a link to that in the show notes. Basically, these computers

are really fast and they're really good year for year upgrade, maybe not necessary.

If you have an M1 Pro or M1 Max, but if you're coming from an Intel machine, my goodness,

you will be probably blown away. So it's really cool. But I think it's the first time,

at least me personally, I'm not tempted to upgrade my MacBook Pro. Like my M1 Pro is so

good, so fast. The hardware has not changed a year over a year. I feel like I'm okay.

I don't need to upgrade. I mean, the new stuff is great. I mean, I would, you'd see

a performance boost going to like the new processors and stuff, but do you really need

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