The new M1 Macs are totally insane! (+ HomePod mini hands-on!) - #467
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🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
This week: Apple’s new M1 Macs are breaking all the benchmarks, and are now officially the fastest Macs ever made. The MacBook Air is outperforming the iMac! These M1 Macs are insane.
Plus: iPhone 12 Pro Max Vs. Mini — we’ve got them both! Which one is the keeper? We discuss. And stay tuned for our HomePod mini review, and our favorite tire inflator in an all-new Under Review!
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This week's stories
First M1 Macs blow reviewers’ socks off
- Still on the fence over Apple’s new M1 Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro despite their stellar benchmarks? Find out what tech experts think of them in new reviews and hands-on videos.
M1 MacBook Review + Mac Mini (Dave2D)
iPhone 12 mini is the ultimate one-handed phone [Review]
- Buying a compact smartphone used to mean making some big sacrifices. You either had to settle for an older model, or you had to opt for an Android handset (ugh!). That’s no longer the case, thanks to iPhone 12 mini.
iPhone 12 Pro Max: Bigger, bolder and undeniably better [Review]
- iPhone 12 Pro Max is Apple’s biggest smartphone to date, with a Super Retina XDR display that measures at 6.7 inches diagonally. It’s also the fastest handset on the market, thanks to an incredibly speedy A14 Bionic processor that’s coupled with 5G connectivity (where available).
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| 0:00.0 | In the history of this planet's civilization, some discoveries or inventions have led to breathtaking |
| 0:06.1 | changes in our lifestyle. Fire, for example, or the wheel. This year in 1988 we have developed supercomputers that are capable of performing 2 billion calculations per second. |
| 0:20.0 | By next year we expect that capacity to have doubled. |
| 0:24.0 | If we have a master what we now believe to be the physical impossibility of traveling at the speed of light |
| 0:30.0 | so that we ourselves can visit the most distant stars. |
| 0:33.0 | Computers will make that breakthrough possible. |
| 0:36.0 | Hello! |
| 0:40.0 | And welcome to the whole cast the best best 30 plus minute alp conversation. |
| 0:44.0 | You're gonna hear all week long. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm your host, Air Funalides, join me today. |
| 0:48.0 | He's a lot like the new Macbook air, |
| 0:50.0 | smaller but powerful, with advanced computational power he's the managing |
| 0:54.4 | and editor of Colton Mac Lewis Wallace is here yeah no overheating either |
| 0:59.5 | also with us you say you want cutting well, just take a look at that sharp jawline. |
| 1:07.0 | He's the founder of Kultimac. |
| 1:08.0 | Landr Kaney is here. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello. |
| 1:11.0 | Not as sharp as it used to be, but... |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, yeah. Thanks for finding that out. |
| 1:14.0 | Thanks for noticing. |
| 1:16.0 | What am I? I'm just joking. |
| 1:18.0 | You could cut a piece of... |
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