MacBook Neo teardown, more on AirPods Max 2
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- F1: The Movie wins Apple its first Academy Award in three years
- AirPods Max 2: Four things that haven’t changed
- iFixit tears down the new MacBook Neo, likes (most of) what it sees
- Beats and Nike team up on special edition Powerbeats Pro 2
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, March 17th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Backblaze. |
| 0:13.1 | Leading on today, the 98th annual Academy Awards were held on Sunday night, and Apple had six nominations in total going into the festivities, and it's now won its first Oscar in three years, thanks to F1 the movie. |
| 0:28.2 | F1 The Movie is the highest grossing sports film of all time, Apple's biggest theatrical success ever, and now it can add Academy Award winner to its accolades. F1 took home the prize for |
| 0:40.7 | Best Sound, beating out Frankenstein, one battle after another, Sinners, and Surratt. Apple entered the |
| 0:48.3 | Oscars with six nominations in total. F1 was nominated for Best Picture, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and Best |
| 0:56.1 | Editing, The Lost Bus was nominated for Best Visual Effects, and Come See Me in the |
| 1:02.4 | Good Light was up for Best Documentary feature film. These six nominations represented a notable |
| 1:08.4 | improvement over 2025 when Apple received zero nominations for any of |
| 1:13.0 | its films. In 2024, Apple had a strong showing heading into the ceremony with 13 nominations, |
| 1:20.7 | but it came away empty-handed with zero wins. Apple won an Oscar in 2003 for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, |
| 1:29.6 | but its biggest Oscar achievement was the year before |
| 1:32.3 | when Coda made a surprise win for Best Picture. |
| 1:36.2 | The last couple of years have brought a revamp of Apple's strategy for movies, |
| 1:40.2 | and so far that seems to be paying off with the success of F1 and the lineup of films |
| 1:45.9 | coming throughout the rest of this year. |
| 1:49.1 | Next up today, expectations have been running high with what I Fixit would find when it opened |
| 1:54.1 | up the MacBook Neo. As it turns out, all of those expectations have been met and then |
| 2:00.0 | some. |
| 2:07.1 | I Fixit has concluded that the MacBook Neo is the, quote, most repairable Mac in 14 years. |
| 2:14.6 | The teardown praises easy access to the battery, the speakers, the USBC ports, and even the trackpad. |
| 2:21.1 | On most modern laptops, I Fixit says that at least one of those parts is buried under something else. |
| 2:24.6 | But with the MacBook Neo, Apple provides easy access. |
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