M2 MacBook Pro reviews, M2 vs M1, + return of the MacBook! (CultCast #550)
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🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week: The first reviews of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 are in and they are not kind!
Plus: new details elude to a new MacBook that may be a hybrid between an MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, iOS 16 is adding a MUST-HAVE SMS feature, and an odd Apple show becomes one of most popular shows streamed on any streaming service.
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This week's stories
M2 MacBook Pro review roundup: Powerful chip, archaic design
- The first reviews of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with an Apple M2 processor are not kind. It gets called a “Pro in name only” and “literally a processor update and nothing more.”
15-inch MacBook with M2 Pro might launch in spring 2023
- A 15-inch MacBook will debut in less than a year that offers either an M2 or an M2 Pro processor, according to a reliable Apple analyst. That could make it one of the first with the upgraded version of the M2.
Apple M2 is fast, but not faster than M1 Pro or M1 Max
- The first real-world benchmark tests of the Apple M2 processor show that the just-launched processor is about 20% to 25% faster than the original M1, which is welcome news for anyone in the market for a MacBook or iPad in the next few years.
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Apple’s New CarPlay Is the Foreshock to Releasing Its Own Vehicle
iOS 16 beta 2 improves SMS filtering on Messages to iPhone users
- Apple had already teased in a WWDC 2022 session that iOS 16 would add 12 new subcategories to the SMS filtering API. With beta 2, they’re now available to developers to use.
Apple TV+ sci-fi drama For All Mankind rockets to popularity
- For All Mankind is one of the most popular shows available on streaming, according to a ratings tracker. Season three of the alternate-history sci-fi series premiered on Apple TV+ in early June, and it’s been a Top 10 show both weeks since then.
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| 0:00.0 | It's powerful, it's responsive, it handles beautifully and it'll blow the doors of anything |
| 0:11.2 | else in its class. |
| 0:14.1 | And right now we'll let you take one out for a test drive overnight. |
| 0:20.1 | Visit an authorized Apple dealer and test drive on Macintosh. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello and welcome to the Cassie Best 30 plus minute Apple conversation and you're going |
| 0:34.0 | to hear, oh week long, I'm your host. |
| 0:37.4 | Careful on the live enjoyment today. |
| 0:39.0 | Now that the editor-in-chief, Leander Caini, is on vacation, you might see him rolling |
| 0:42.8 | around San Francisco and the Coltomac, Lamborghini, Maurizio Lago, company car, purple, of |
| 0:47.1 | course. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm signing the important Suarez where the executive is at Apple's spaceship campus. |
| 0:52.8 | And wondering the halls of the Colt Club with a special edition purple rope and fuzz, I hope |
| 0:58.4 | you find that rope tile Lewis that was grossly inappropriate, leaving it open like that |
| 1:02.5 | as you wondered the halls. |
| 1:03.5 | He's the magic head of Coltomac, ooh, this falls is there! |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah, the color purple, huh? |
| 1:09.5 | I don't know. |
| 1:10.5 | I don't have that. |
| 1:11.5 | Coltomac's official color? |
| 1:12.5 | It is a kingly color. |
| 1:15.8 | At least it used to be the official color. |
| 1:17.4 | What is the official color now? |
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