M4 Macs — nitty gritty details, and our reactions! (CultCast #671)

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week, they’re here — ALL the M4 Macs. The iMac, the Mac mini, the MacBook Pros, the new accessories. What did we order?

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This week’s stories:

Mac mini radically redesigned with M4 and M4 Pro chip

Apple unveiled the radically redesigned Mac mini on Tuesday, with versions powered by the M4 chip and a new M4 Pro chip.
Hacks and jokes ‘fix’ M4 Mac mini’s odd power-button placement

New M4 iMac delivers major speed boost

Apple launched an upgraded iMac with an M4 chip and support for Apple Intelligence on Monday, calling it “the world’s best all-in-one for AI.”

M4 MacBook Pros deliver big performance and battery life gains

While the new laptops sport the same design as their predecessors, they deliver faster performance and a staggering 24 hours of battery life, the company says.

Shocker! Apple doubles RAM in M2 and M3 MacBook Air

Apple on Wednesday increased the RAM in the base model M2 and M3 MacBook Air from 8GB to 16GB. And the enhancement comes without a price increase.

New Magic Keyboard, mouse and trackpad spell end for Lightning

Apple’s new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad showed up for sale Monday. As expected, they switch from Lightning connector to USB-C.

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0:00.0	You know, I wish I had a nickel for every time somebody asked him that.
0:05.0	Why doesn't Apple offer a stripped-down Mac that is more affordable?
0:09.0	They want a Mac that's stripped down, no display, no keyboard and mouse,
0:14.0	and so today we think we know what they have in mind, and we're introducing it.
0:18.0	It's called the Mac Mini it's very very tiny and it's
0:31.6	really beautiful it's got a bunch of cool things to it it's quiet it's got the
0:35.8	slot load combo drive it's got firewire and
0:38.3	USB 2, a modem, analog and digital video output, Ethernet, and it's really tiny. So this is a very
0:45.9	robust computer, but it's very, very tiny.
0:53.6	Hello, and welcome to the Colcast the best 30 plus minute Apple conversation.
0:59.2	You're going to hear all week, I'm your host, Airfront, Elijah.
1:02.8	Join me today.
1:03.4	He's back from his European vacation, where EU authorities are now investigating the
1:09.4	disappearance of several people across multiple countries.
1:13.0	The only clue they currently have is that they all seem to share the same profession of writing.
1:18.2	That's odd.
1:20.0	Managing editor of Coltimore.
1:21.0	Lewis Walls is here.
1:22.9	Hey, hey, God, it's great you'll be back.
1:25.1	It's that red stain on your shirt.
1:26.9	Is that ink?
1:27.6	What is that? It's Mar you'll be back. It's that red stain on your shirt. Is that ink? What is that?
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