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Mac Studio | Studio Display - the good, the great, the UGLY (CultCast #535)

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week: our reactions to Mac Studio, Studio Display, iPad Air 5, and iPhone SE, plus we dive in deep on the Mac Studio and Studio display, and we found ain't all great.

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This week's stories

Apple goes green with new iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro colors

  • Apple added two new green finishes to its iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro lineups Tuesday to generate a colorful midseason jolt of excitement.

Apple needs to shake up its boring iPhone Pro color options

Apple’s new Mac Studio is a blazing-fast desktop with an M1 Ultra chip

  • Apple on Tuesday gave us our first glimpse at its brand-new Mac Studio — its first desktop featuring the M1 Ultra chip. It’s bigger than a Mac mini but smaller than a Mac Pro, and it’s the most powerful machine Apple has built to date.

The Mac is back, with its best lineup in years (Graham's opinion piece)

Apple Studio Display brings high-end monitor down to affordable price

  • Ever since Apple introduced the iMac with 4K and 5K displays, and the later iMac Pro, people have been asking, “Why can’t Apple just sell the iMac without the computer and call it a display?”

Enter to win American-made Apple accessories from Raptic [Cult of Mac giveaway]

  • This week we're giving away a pair of protective accessories from Raptic (formerly Defense by X-Doria).

Apple TV+ scores Friday night Major League Baseball games

iPad Air 5 goes super-fast with M1 processor

  • The iPad Air 5 starts at $599. This version comes with 64GB of storage. Pricing for a 256GB version has not yet been announced.

Plus: Why iPad Air 5 is a better choice than 11-inch iPad Pro

New iPhone SE brings serious upgrades at slightly higher price

Transcript

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going to hear all week long. I'm your host. Here from Elijah, join me today. It took two

0:41.7

paddle charges and a full adrenaline needle right to the heart to resuscitate

0:45.6

him after Apple announced the new Mac studio and studio display. He went into the full

0:49.4

astonishing loop. Astonishing, astonishing, astonishing, astonishing,

0:52.5

unbelievable. He's a banner of Call of the Mac. He's here. Also with us, he's been

0:59.8

spraying the Call of the Mac writing cage with a garden hose every 60 minutes to

1:03.2

keep the writers awake and cranking out those stories. There's been some good ones

1:06.2

too. He's imagining a full Mac. Ooh, it's a ball. It's his here. Yeah, wow. What a

1:14.1

week. What a week. You cleaned up all the the blood stains and stuff from your

1:19.3

clothes and your face. That's nice. So we have the drain in the center of the floor.

1:22.3

In the Call of the Mac writing cage. Yeah. Look, I know that things get hectic in

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there when we have an event like this and you got to keep people well motivated, you

1:31.4

know, got to do what you got to do. My friends, we have a lot to talk about. And I want

1:36.9

to know who is who had to sell some plasma this week to afford some of the Apple hardware

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