Weird laptops of Computex, new Intel and AMD chips, and a WWDC preview

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller discuss all the new laptops revealed at Computex 2019, the new processor chips from Intel and AMD, what's to come at Apple's WWDC next week, and more updates on the T-Mobile and Sprint merger. Stories discussed this week: Laptops are getting weird and wonderfulTwin River is Intel’s attempt to build a dual-screen laptop out of fabricDid Intel just nail the dual-screen gaming laptop?Asus put two 4K screens on its extravagant ZenBook Pro Duo laptop Intel, AMD, and ARM each see our computing future differentlyAMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 3900X has all the performance at half the price of IntelIntel’s 10th Gen, 10nm Ice Lake CPUs: everything you need to knowApple WWDC 2019: Mac Pro, iOS 13, Marzipan, and what else to expectApple should make more iPad apps for the MacApple refreshes the iPod touch with the iPhone 7’s processorApple’s latest defense of the App Store shows how hard it is to compete with AppleApple’s former app approval chief says he’s ‘really worried’ about company’s anticompetitive behaviorExperts are furious over the FCC’s rosy picture of broadband accessT-Mobile and Sprint might have to create a new carrier to get their merger approvedSprint’s 5G network is here, and it’s completely different from what Verizon and AT&T are doing5G has arrived in the UK, and it’s fast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on the Vergecast, we talk about all the new laptops at Computex, new chips from Intel and AMD,
0:06.0	big WWDC preview, and we forgot what's going on, T-Mobile and Sprint. This on the Vergecast.
0:11.0	Sabotage hired Goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:15.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa,
0:20.0	earned a brief second life, and then was buried for good.
0:25.0	Watch the Verge's documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Verge podcast, Armada.
0:41.0	I am Neely Patel, your friend, Deed Arbonis here.
0:45.0	We need more synonyms for the boat thing. What if we're part of a flotilla this week?
0:50.0	Oh flotilla's good. That sort of flotilla just suggests to me like a bunch of people
0:54.0	having a lake party. I'm not sure that's what a flotilla is.
0:59.0	But the Lake Michigan flotilla just sounds like all the people.
1:04.0	Yeah, did that like Metataka? Paul Miller's here.
1:07.0	I love boats also.
1:10.0	For being just sort of uncontrovertively a boat themed podcast, we never actually talk about boats.
1:18.0	Yeah, there's lots of boat tech that we could be getting into.
1:21.0	So much. One time I made a video about a truck that turned into a boat.
1:26.0	I remember it well. A real high point of the early Verge.
1:30.0	It was for a military defense contractor.
1:34.0	They had an event in DC and there was a bunch of very serious military journalists
1:40.0	and they were like, how fast can it go? How many humanitarian missions can it support?
1:45.0	I was like, can you make it turn into a boat now?
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