MBW 922: Crossing the Snell Line - Copilot+ PCs, iOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5
MacBreak Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
3.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Microsoft unveiled its new Copilot+ PCs to compete with Apple's MacBook Air. Apple released an update to iOS that fixes the issue of deleted photos reappearing, or as most articles are fixated on, deleted NSFW photos. And could new Mac Studio and Mac Pros be released in 2025?
- Scarlett Johansson was 'shocked, angered' by ChatGPT voice that sounded like her.
- Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with generative AI capabilities baked in.
- I tried Microsoft's new AI-Focused PCs. Windows is exciting again.
- iOS 17.5 is allegedly resurfacing pictures that were deleted years ago.
- Apple says its latest iOS update fixes the issue that caused some NSFW deleted photos to reappear.
- macOS Sonoma 14.5 is the best release this cycle.
- iPad Pro 13's hide a repairability win, still hard to fix.
- Mac Studio, Mac Pro will be released in 2025.
- Secret meeting between Apple and TSMC reported, possibly to reserve all 2nm capacity.
- Apple's 27% app store fee plan gets skeptical reception by judge.
- The forged Apple employee badge.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Mac Break Weekly. |
| 0:01.7 | Jason Snells here, Andy Anaco, Micah Sergeant filling in for Alex Lindsay. |
| 0:06.0 | Scarlet Johanson's mad as heck, and she's not going to take it anymore. |
| 0:10.8 | We'll explain what that's all about and why it might change what Apple |
| 0:14.4 | announces at W.W.C. Why you probably won't get an updated Mac Studio or Mac Pro |
| 0:21.1 | until next year? |
| 0:24.0 | Uh-oh. |
| 0:25.0 | And are Microsoft's new AI plus PC |
| 0:29.0 | Surface laptops? |
| 0:31.0 | Anything to write home about? Are they actually better than the |
| 0:34.3 | Macbook air? Let's talk about it. Next a Macbreak Weekly. |
| 0:38.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 0:44.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:47.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:59.0 | This is Back Break Weekly, Episode 922, recorded May 21st, 2024, crossing the Snell Line. It's time for Mac Break Weekly, the show we cover the latest news from Apple. |
| 1:05.5 | And the guns and long knives are out for Apple. |
| 1:08.4 | Microsoft's moving in. |
| 1:10.0 | Jason Snell is here from six colors. com. Hi, Jason. Microsoft is. Jason, |
| 1:13.0 | from six colors. Hi Jason. |
| 1:14.0 | Microsoft has been moving in for a long time. |
| 1:16.0 | Maybe they got it right this time. |
| 1:18.0 | You think? We don't know yet. |
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