New HomePods! New MacBook Pros! New Mac mini! Our REACTIONS…. (CultCast #578)
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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This week:
They're finally here, the new M2 MacBook Pros, mew Mac mini and Mac mini "Pro", and the brand new HomePods! This episode we react and discuss all of it....
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This week's stories
Apple Announces New MacBook Pros With M2 Pro and M2 Max Chips, Up to 96GB RAM, and More
- The new M2 Pro chip features a 10-core or 12-core CPU and offers up to 20% faster performance than the M1 Pro chip, according to Apple. The chip also has a 16-core or 19-core GPU that delivers up to 30% faster graphics performance over the M1 Pro, while the 16-core Neural Engine is up to 40% faster compared to the previous generation.
2024 MacBook Pro will feature even-faster 3nm Apple M3-series processors
- Apple designs the CPUs for its computers but they are produced by TSMC. And while the Taiwanese company has been able to consistently shrink the components of Apple’s chips every couple of years, but serious problems with the 3nm process that rollout was delayed many months.
Apple launches powerful new Mac mini at a lower cost
- Apple launched a new Mac mini Tuesday, an upgraded model that uses the M2 chip seen last summer in the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. A higher-end version runs on the brand-new M2 Pro chip, which also powers the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, also introduced today.
Apple resurrects full-size HomePod with hot new features, same old price
- The first-generation HomePod debuted in 2018, and received equal parts praise for its audio quality and criticism for its $349 price. A drop to $299 did little to raise interest in the product, so Apple discontinued the HomePod in 2021.
HomePod head-to-head: How Apple’s new smart speaker compares to original
Secret sensor in your HomePod mini will activate soon
- Shortly after HomePod mini launched in 2020, teardowns of the device discovered a sensor to measure both temperature and humidity. No one outside of Apple had been aware of it before because the functionality has been inaccessible to users. But that’s about to change.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm the Mac in the left corner coming in at e-gigs hailing from office desktops everywhere |
| 0:09.0 | PC |
| 0:11.0 | Okay, what what's going on buddy? Well, your sales are through the roof. I'm showing the people I'm not going down without a fight |
| 0:16.4 | PC this isn't a competition |
| 0:18.0 | Okay, so people just want to computer that's simple and intuitive that works the way they do actually my brother-in-law just got a map and |
| 0:26.4 | loves it |
| 0:31.0 | Hello |
| 0:33.0 | Welcome to co-cast the best 30-minute Apple |
| 0:38.0 | All week long I'm your host airpaul as you join me today |
| 0:41.5 | Many say he's the toughest editor in tech in fact it says so on the gold |
| 0:46.8 | Ultimac ringy wears on his pinky and if you don't get your story in on time we've got a nice imprint of that ring |
| 0:52.4 | I run in your forehead |
| 0:54.4 | He's imagine I've caught the back Lewis walls is here no rings no rings. No you took it took it off of the show ringless |
| 1:01.3 | Also with us. He's a wildy one. He's a new coltomac writer and somehow you escape the writing cage |
| 1:06.5 | To join us here in today's program Lewis walls is furious. He got through the new laser net. I literally only know his first name |
| 1:13.9 | Griffin |
| 1:17.2 | The reason I don't have videos because I've got a quite a big black eye from that that gold ring right? |
| 1:21.7 | He got me right on the right on the face. Oh, he already imprinted it in your face. You can't have visual evidence |
| 1:27.8 | Well, I'm sure it has nothing to do with your performance. You haven't been with us long enough |
| 1:31.2 | But he does just like to hit people with it |
| 1:33.7 | So |
| 1:34.8 | Welcome to Griffin Griffin is new coltomac writers |
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