Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Wednesday, November 13th, 2019.

I'm Brian McCullough today. The new 16-inch MacBook Pro might actually have a keyboard that works.

Google wants you to bank with them. The brave browser comes out of beta.

And there's an AI that can predict if you'll die in the next year, but doctors don't know how it works.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. The much rumored new 16 inch MacBook Pro is finally here. You can pre-order today. It will be in stores later this week.

The starting price is $2,359, which was the same starting

price as the old 15 inch Macbook Pro, which this new model replaces. The 15 inch MacBook Pro is gone. There are new processors,

apparently significantly better speakers and obviously a larger screen on this new pro. This machine is 0.7

millimeters thicker and part of that is that the entire thermal system has

apparently been redesigned.

The previous 15 inch pro had some thermal throttling issues.

Quoting the verge.

Apple is offering two base configs with Intel ninth gen processors.

There's a six core, core I seven, and an eight core, core I nine.

But the processors aren't actually the most important specs.

That would be the RAM and storage.

The base for each is fairly normal,

16 gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes or 1 terabyte

of SSD storage, depending on the model.

Where it gets interesting is the maximum available for RAM and storage is much higher than

before.

You can spec this machine up to 64 gigabytes of RAM and 8 terabytes, not a typo, of storage on the

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