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The CultCast

The $600 Neo Has Broken Apple, HUGE New macOS Feature, and Satellite iPhones Go Next-Level! (CultCast #745)

The CultCast

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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Send us a text! This week: Apple’s $600 MacBook Neo is absolutely breaking expectations—and maybe Apple’s own plans—as demand explodes and supply starts running thin. Plus, macOS just got a HUGE new feature you’ve probably never noticed, And Apple’s satellite tech is about to go next-level, with faster speeds, new capabilities, and features that could completely change how your iPhone works when you’re off the grid. Also: a surprise DaVinci Resolve update that could shake up photo...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the coldcast. The best 30 plus minute Apple conversation you're going to hear all week long. I'm your host, Sarah for Elijah.

0:15.1

Joining me today, a very special guest, myself. It's just me here in the Colt Command Center, surrounded by the most high-tech gadgets money can buy.

0:27.0

Multiple monitors surrounding me.

0:28.5

I even have them behind me now.

0:29.9

I'm not even looking at them.

0:31.1

That's just the way I roll.

0:32.9

We have a very exciting show for you here today.

0:36.3

I don't even know if I'm going to be able to make it through all these different stories.

0:39.0

A surprising amount of Apple news this week.

0:41.8

And also got a little bit of an announcement here in just a sec.

0:46.1

Before we dive into all the fun, though, I'm just going right for it.

0:49.4

I'm just diving right in here because we had so much stuff to talk about, including, we got some

0:55.4

interesting developments on the MacBook Neo, including a story I said I was going to cover last

0:59.8

week, which is a big problem in Apple's having with the Neo, and I somehow completely breezed

1:06.5

over it. And I realized at the end of the show that I said I was going to do the story and then I didn't do the story. So we're going to talk about it. Also, we are going to talk about, I think, one of the best Mac tips that I have maybe ever seen in the history of doing this show. I hope that's not overselling it. But I have been waiting for

1:27.9

a feature to come to the Mac that recently just landed. And you would never know it was there,

1:33.7

but for me telling you that it's there. And when I saw this, I almost didn't believe that it finally

1:39.1

happened. I hope I'm not overselling this. I don't think that I am. I'm not even going to tell you

1:43.9

what it is, because obviously I have to tease you.

1:46.3

And I'm going to make you wait until I actually reveal the tip to you.

1:49.3

And you'll be so happy that I did.

1:51.3

We're also going to talk about some new features coming to the Apple, the iPhone satellite feature that is saving lives and saving people who are

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