Our best of 2022 picks, part 1! (CultCast #574)
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🗓️ 23 December 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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This week:
It's part 1 of our best of 2022 picks, with our favorite tech, shows, and movies!
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This week's stories
Don’t give up on the iMac Pro just yet
- The first iMac Pro launched in 2017, with a powerful Intel Xeon processor, a 27-inch 5K display and a starting price of $5,000. The first iMac designed for professionals, the pricey computer failed to find a market. Apple nixed it in 2021 without ever releasing follow-up versions. But it’s apparently not too late.
Apple seemingly cancels ‘M2 Extreme’ Mac Pro
- At WWDC20, Apple promised to complete its transition to Apple silicon inside Macs in two years. It missed that deadline, and the company is yet to reveal a replacement for its 2019 Intel Mac Pro.
Apple store rewards procrastinators with free two-hour deliveries
- It’s almost Christmas, while Hanukkah is already in full swing, and the Apple store is helping last-minute shoppers with free two-hour delivery of some items.
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| 0:00.0 | They finally figured out a way to make a Windows PC easy to use. |
| 0:06.0 | Exchange it for a Macintosh. |
| 0:11.0 | Did you say they're a sea? |
| 0:18.0 | Hello! Welcome to Cogassee Best 30 plus Macintosh. |
| 0:25.0 | I shocked you. You were expecting me to hit that high note. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm your host, everybody. Join me today. He knows when you've been writing. He knows you're spilling mistakes. |
| 0:35.0 | He's gonna whip your hind end if you type too slow. So type fast for goodness' takes. |
| 0:40.0 | He's eventually gonna have a call to back. |
| 0:42.0 | Ooh, it's walls is here! |
| 0:45.0 | Make me sound like some kind of editorial crampus. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, man. I should've done that. Santa style, shouldn't I? |
| 0:52.0 | No! |
| 0:54.0 | I was impressed that I hit that high note too. So for those of you who can tell, |
| 0:58.0 | man, I'm sick. |
| 1:01.0 | Again, I don't know what's going on, man. |
| 1:05.0 | So I keep taking COVID tests. They keep coming back negative. |
| 1:08.0 | So like two weeks ago, I got a killer sore throat and then I had a low grade fever. |
| 1:14.0 | And I was like, oh no, did I get the new strain? |
| 1:18.0 | It improved. |
| 1:20.0 | As I always do, I waited too long to take the test and I took it, came back negative. |
| 1:25.0 | And then three or four days later, I started feeling a lot better. |
| 1:28.0 | And then I stupidly went to a Christmas party and had drinks, |
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