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Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong

IPhone Pre-Order September 14th? New MacBook Air/Mac Mini This Fall! (Apple Bitz XL, Ep. 24)

Apple Bitz XL w/ Brian Tong

Apple Bitz XL Podcast w/ Brian Tong

Tech News, Technology, News

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg reports new Macs are coming this fall. A low cost MacBook Air with a 13-inch Retina display and Apple’s working on a Mac mini for professionals. Plus, 2018 iPhone rumors point to a September 14th pre-order and Apple Watch Series 4 is weeks away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Whoa. You know that little bee, you know that little bee, you know that little

0:09.8

ditty? Welcome to the Apple Bits X L. Brian Tong here, your host with the most. It is episode

0:16.8

24 and this show is all about you. Thanks to everyone who supports this show at

0:21.7

Patreon.com slash Brian Tong. We'll get to that later. who supports this show at Patreon at patreon

0:22.9

We'll get to that later, but again this is all about y'all call in 833

0:28.7

Triple 8 ABXL that's 833, AAA, 2295.

0:34.0

We got over 15 calls this week. It was crazy, so I had to trim them down.

0:38.0

I'm sorry I couldn't get to everyone, and some of y'all, like, it sounds like you you're underwater I hope you have a phone from the past five years because it

0:46.6

shouldn't it shouldn't sound like that it shouldn't so let's get to it everybody a lot of stories happen kind of earlier this week and the big one really comes to us from Bloomberg and Bloomberg reports that Apple is planning to debut a low-cost Macbook Air with a retina display and a revamped Mac Mini with a focus

1:09.3

for professionals sometime this fall in 2018.

1:15.0

So we've heard this rumor that

1:17.0

Apple is going to have a new entry-level low-cost

1:20.0

laptop and we didn't know if it was a Macbook or a Macbook air and what the design might be.

1:24.4

This is the first report that actually outright says it will be a Macbook air.

1:29.9

They do report that it will have slimmer bezzles around the display.

1:34.2

It will continue to be sized around 13 inches and will feature a retina display the first time,

1:39.7

at least for the Macbook Airline.

1:41.9

Remember the Macbook Air was that first,

1:44.9

I think it was the first laptop where they said

1:46.8

you could fit it in a Manila envelope.

1:48.9

I swear that was the advertising campaign.

1:51.2

At least it was for the 11 inch where you could just slide it in an envelope.

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