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This week : Apple dropped iPads and Macs galore — we’re talking ALL the details on the iPad Air, iPad 11, MacBook Air M4 and Mac Studio! Also: iOS 18.4 beta 2, more news on the new Siri, and Griffin’s review of the iPhone 16e. (Remember that?)
Chapters:
0:00 Preshow
6:38 Intro
10:59 Factor Meals
12:54 Gruber vs. Gurman
17:38 MacBook Air M4
28:45 Mac Studio M3 / M4
36:44 iPad Air M3
43:47 iPad A16
50:51 CultCloth
52:42 iOS 18.4 beta 2
57:16 iPhone 16e Review
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I think that's working if only there was a sign that we were actually live no
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that's it Lo's nerves know every time I don't see any bits coming in
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though is it working testing y oh I see
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[Music] something and we're live I think I just pulled my vocal
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cords jeez how's it going oh it's great just going great you're
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just what a day I've had yeah it's good Griffin and I were looking at a
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page on our site and for some reason a YouTube ined overtook the entire page
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looking at it was like scrolling down was like that freaking black hole scene in 2001 in Space
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Odyssey everything's warped out of I have no I still this day have no idea what was going on Plus on the mobile
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site it showed a completely different video oh great yeah it's insane all the images for no reason at all were like
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2,000 pixels tall I mean that sounds fine people love images that was just awesome and and you know what's the the
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really the great thing is the only thing I changed in it was I I shortened the
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length of of a link text an inline link CU I it's kind of long I think I'll change it and it I changed it it fixed
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everything although the last time I checked we still had the other video on the mobile site if anybody can fix that
1:29
come on we got to a job for you I can fix it Louis oh come on down
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you g to pay for my plane ticket that's the question I think you might be able to do it remotely uh nope got to be in
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front of the main frame leis that's the only way got to hack into the into the main
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frame the bunker under the cany house oh man I I've been in that level of the KY
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house I still have nightmares about it I don't wish to ever go back I've hit my head on that ceiling and I'm not a tall
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man it's like waking up in the movie Saw You don't know where you are but you're
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sure you're going to be tortured soon and then like you hear like
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this like these terrifying noises and this clunking only to hear elany walking
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down those creaky wooden steps and nothing but his tidy whes oh there's an
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[Laughter] image all right um we got a lot of people here wow people are interested in
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this program here today with the huge the huge delou of Apple products we got
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Darth inkling we've got Hugo last we've got oh H go last with a
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$25 donation here's some money for new software well I don't think I need any
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new software but I'm sure El Keeny probably does he's probably still using iweb to R to run the cult toac
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website uh we got uh level remix we got bmst group so uh business like we got
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the dude we got Tomas we've got corm I think we're good to get this thing
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rolling we got a lot of stuff to do and I got to be walking these sweet but muscular buns out the door in 68 minutes
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I just oh my gosh I don't think we have enough time I got a great idea of something you could do right now oh I
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know what you want you are you are a singular minded creature
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leis I've just read into your conscious you want the Tweet action you want to get your hands on that sweet down in my
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soul I need a tweet need a tweet you I think we have so many live listeners
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because I I I remember to to post on Mastadon again this week that must have been where they all came from oh man can
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I press this button oh yeah I'm sure that probably helped can I press this button to go live on Twitter I don't know what will happen if I press this
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button I added in a mechanism to stream to Twitter and um of course everything's ad hoc and halfhazard as it always is
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here and I'm like I haven't even tested this press this button and see if it actually works but I downloaded a new plugin into OBS to see if it get
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streamed to Twitter and this will either cause my computer to completely melt down and will not be able to do a show
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for months or it will work or it will do nothing I guess that's our other option should we go ahead and press the button
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and just see what happens I'm just I'm so deeply curious let's just press it just just okay if if everything
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immediately is ruined then I have permission to make fun of you for the end of time oh well understand that
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right that's um that's totally understandable uh
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but I don't see a single thing working I see absolutely nothing does anyone see
4:37
anything happening on the stream I put in my stream key and it doesn't look like my oh my
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CPU usage went from 1% to 2% so that that's something what do you mean where are you
4:51
saying to look for it's supposed to be on my uh on my account your your X page
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x.com Aon let's see did it work nothing nothing fair dude I see the
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Tweet okay about the you know the regular tweet absolute let's see output settings sure
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I wonder man who's who's in charge of that Twitter thing they need H they hired some
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employees main encoder yeah I mean it looks like it should be working so I
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have no idea what's going on I did not receive a notification on my I
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yeah all right well we'll have to figure it out next time very somebody very
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disappointing very eager to um say hi to us oh Mrs
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D where is she she's excited today oh Mrs D how you
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doing oh I'm fine my dear I've also been in the basement with elcy oh no and yes
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it is quite a dungeon and and we have reorganized a bit and made a room for a sensual dungeon oh
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no swings whips dips oh you'll love it my boy I actually won't Mrs D but Lewis
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might be interested he actually looks like he's very curious about that situation so building a fence around my
6:18
house he sent him an invite with the new Apple invites app if you don't mind let's go ahead and get this thing
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rolling you've nauseated all of us why does it keep deselecting my stream God
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OBS what what the heck is going on here today stream's not working we got a lot of stuff to talk about so we'll get it
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rolling if you don't mind Mr T in three hello and welcome to the coass B
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30 plus minute app conversation you're going to hear all week long I'm your host airon Li join me today he recently
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discovered that placing pictures of CTO ma Riders on the high point parts of the dart board increases his accuracy and
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his average score is skyrocketed 86% he managing Ed of c ma Lis Wallace is here
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man that would be sweet also with us he's hoping to one day migrate his Consciousness into
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iCloud thus eliminating the need for his corporeal form he just hopes that he can afford the charge for the additional
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iCloud storage space they just keep upping those prices don't they Le he's a rider for C Griffin Jones is
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here good evening Aon have you turned your computer in the last week no I
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still have it oh wow I still have it in fact I'm prepping my M1 Max MacBook Pro
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for sale you know I got to admit man I I don't really love the silver color the
7:42
computer itself absolutely love but I just I'm such a space gray guy the space
7:48
gray is just like the perfect color but I think I'm going to stick with it although Part of Me Part of me an
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increasingly large part of me wants to get the Mac Studio I can get
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the s for the same money I can get the the the um M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 96
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gigs of RAM and a 2 terab hard hard drive now the only problem is is what
8:14
would I ever do to necess necessitate all of that power absolutely nothing but
8:20
I was thinking if I got a computer with that amount of power I could finally get one of those YouTube videos released so
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like that would be a pretty big bonus and I've been trying to do that for weeks if not longer so but I don't it's
8:34
clearly The Missing Link I think that might be it I don't think though that I could own both the MacBook Pro and the
8:41
Mac Studio that seems to kind of be Overkill so I was like well maybe I'll
8:47
sell or return the MacBook Pro get the Mac Studio and an M4 MacBook here oh my
8:53
I'm not going to do it I'm not going to do want make something abundantly clear to our listeners that I don't want you
8:59
misinformed again I want to reiterate I do all of my work with an M2 Mac Mini and it
9:05
is easily more than efficient and you know what I put out a video on the cult Mac YouTube channel every single week
9:12
yeah you don't you don't have to have the absolute latest fastest Mac ever to release a YouTube video no you don't
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they still do they I you can still do videos on an M2 Mac Mini yeah but how
9:23
long does it take you to export a video typically five minutes okay there there
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not five minutes there's so much work that you have to do after you export a video like make the thumbnail write the YouTube description all that stuff where
9:34
like the time that it takes to export is completely immaterial oh I beg to differ
9:39
just think of what you could accomplish with your life instead of exporting in five minutes you could export in four
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minutes and 40 seconds you didn't think about that I could see from your face I can also imagine what I could do with
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$4,000 and I feel like that would have a much bigger impact than upgrading my computer for no reason I'm not sure it
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would cuz if I remember correctly you spent 4,000 on the Vision Pro yeah which I use every
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day fair enough all right let's see here I don't have another
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$4,000 yeah well it's hard to keep buying the $4,000 Apple releases I don't
10:15
think I'm going to get the Mac Studio although I am I am incredibly tempted to get it but I really have no reason to
10:21
get it and to be honest it's like I told myself until I'm actually producing videos that necessitate a machine of
10:27
that caliber I'm going to just stick with the with the 14-inch MacBook Pro which I absolutely love and adore and is
10:33
going to do everything I it possibly needed to do and and more like I I even wonder when I do start making videos
10:38
which is going to happen any day now if I'm even going to make that MacBook Pro uh MacBook Pro even break a sweat even
10:44
in the 14 inch where the fans seem to come on a lot more than 16inch I'm like I wonder if I'll even be able to get the fans to come on on that thing I don't
10:51
know because I'm not yeah maybe I should give it a shot hey all right look before we dive
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see how you like them all right let's go ahead and Dive Right In of course everything on this show is going to be
13:46
all the stuff that Apple announced this week of which there was an absolute
13:51
plethora and before we dive into that I just want to show you my absolute favorite story of the week there it is
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right John grber couldn't help he just couldn't help himself he couldn't help
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himself he came out with a tweet saying your source for Scoops 18 hours before
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their announc commenting on German's uh post this week about the the
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the products that were going to be coming out and for some reason Gro felt
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it necessary to dunk on German like first of all even having a 18 hours
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beforehand I think that alone is impressive no one not a lot of people know what Apple's going to do before
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they do it so like even if even if all German had done um oh am I not shown the
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story no I'm not here we go even if all German had done was reveal the products before they had come out I I would have
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been impressed with that but so Gerber is like clowning on him for only getting
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it right you know like a day before it happened and then and then German in
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True Form man comes back back with you mean 11 months ago and and puts a screenshot to an article he wrote almost
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a year ago where he said that apple is going to be testing Mac Studio versions
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with M3 uh M3 Ultra and M4 processors
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and after that man it was just uh kind of crickets after that oh no I guess
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grber does respond here I got to say I know it's silly and
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Petty but the just the squabbling amongst the
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people who typically people look to to get apple Intel in the Apple um
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ecosphere I just find to be really funny and I don't know man I mean I I we we
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poke fun at German a lot I don't think anyone does it even more than we do but it's you know it's with nothing but love
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I mean German is one of if not the most accurate person in the world of Apple
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anything and I just don't question him because he is precise man he's like the Rainman of Apple leaks the guy almost
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never gets anything wrong like he doesn't report on stuff until he's very sure so I just think it's pretty funny
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when people try to dunk on him because I'm like he he's almost like an like an atur
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in in this area like he just he has got like perfect recall
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anyway Jason Jason Snell pointed out that like what he tweeted late on Sunday night immediately before like the or
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whatever night it was like the day before the announcements was pretty much all the information that everybody in the appletech Press got at the same time
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German just for whatever reason broke the Embargo and just like said oh yeah tomorrow they're going to announce this
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and I guess I guess that that pissed a lot of people off like okay Steve trouton Smith posted on mathon with an
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opinion that I largely agree with he said always funny when m Apple Outlets try to assassinate somebody somebody's
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character simultaneously out of the blue almost like somebody in app marketing got huffy and asked for a favor on
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background oh man unfortunately for Apple getting a digit wrong in an opinion piece doesn't discount 15 years
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of industry-leading reporting but they'd really like some suckers to believe that it does I could go on I don't want to be
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mean but I just thought that this this was really funny so I mean there's there's no one that Mark doesn't try to
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dunk on if um they say anything about his stories or him and sometimes I think
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he just takes too far um as far as trying to correct the record he's just let it go but not this
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time all right uh let's go ahead and dive in uh should we start with I would
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say probably the most popular product here Griffin that people were waiting for absolutely all right let's do it
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MacBook Air gets the M4 treatment lower price and stunning new color the M4 MacBook Air brings big power to the
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entry-level MacBook this is like the big news for for all the the tech nerds like
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us it can now drive two external 6K displays like Apple's Pro display xdr or
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I think the much cheaper Ben Q display that's coming out that has like a 6K resolution as well it can drive two of
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those in addition to its own built-in display again on the base model Macbook so this is a pretty big development
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there the M4 carries the same 18 hour battery life as before it can now be upgraded to 32 gabt of memory which is
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up from the 24 gab limit uh this this part is for you
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specifically sky blue replaces space gray and the color options joining
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midnight Starlight and silver Apple's press release describes it as a beautiful metallic light blue that
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creates a dynamic gradient when light reflects off its surface oh you can just like just like on a minivan yeah you
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just like on Mom's minivan mom's Honda Odyssey Circa
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1996 maybe I'm trying to remember the year well allegedly again their their their picture makes it look blue but
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we've we've fall for the same trap with the iPads I'm excited to see whether it actually does look blue when you have it
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there it is just a blue or shade of gray it's a 2011 Honda Odyssey look at that
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beauty every mom in the country wanted one of those vans and I've got one I got
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a 2014 and it is a terrific vehicle way more fun than I ever thought it was going to be I never thought I would be a minivan person but I always remember
19:28
growing growing up seeing these like light blue minivans and now Apple has like a
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strange obsession with this color they've created several products that were exactly this Hue and they must sell
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well a popular color pastel colors are in right now it's it's a popular color yeah may be I uh looking at the picture
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I I don't I didn't really love the blue color to be honest with you but you know other than that I think I I think the
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consensus is and I and I certainly agree with this like what an absolutely um astounding value like this
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really probably is the best laptop for most people that has ever existed some people are saying it's the perfect
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laptop I don't think I would take it that far I would love to see 512 gigabytes of SSD for $9.99 I realize
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that's probably asking too much I mean now that they have 16 gigs of RAM I think that's probably the thing they
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they they they cut the price by $100 across right so starts at 9.99 but the
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thing is you can now upgrade to 512 GB for much cheaper than you could before previously $199 was the entry point now
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you can buy a a one with 52 gigs of storage for $1.99 only $100 more so
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that's right you're effectively getting that upgrade for cheaper and it also gives you the uh the the unbin full
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power M4 chip oh it's unbin right okay so that's that's also another good call
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out here so I $99 model is a really great one yeah that's the one that I would definitely go for I think and if
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my wife needs a new computer which we are going back and forth about because of all the error codes that she's
21:09
getting on hers um this would be the one that I would buy they're going to sell a zillion of these things speaking of
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which we did get a comment so you probably know this uh in the show notes now you can text us and they go um they
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go straight to me and Griffin so we could see all your text messages where's that com someone sent in a blur here we go yeah
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oh wait that's oh no this is it unfor unfortunately the person didn't um leave their name they said hey Aon I have an
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M1 MacBook Air with 8 gab of ram 256 GB of storage from 20121 runs like a dream
21:46
so I don't know what the deal is man but that's definitely not been my experience or my wife's experience and like I
21:52
mentioned before my wife is like the person that you would think would be the one who
21:59
could take advantage of like a Bare Bones MacBook Air and she has had nothing but issues with error messages
22:06
and other problems now I did clear off a bunch of space on her computer um so that may fix the problem I'll have to
22:13
check back with her because her SSD was kind of getting full so maybe it was running out of like you know scratch
22:19
disc space for offboarding stuff from the memory maybe that was the problem I
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don't know um but even when I use it I'm like this thing's definitely slower than it should be and I think that especially
22:31
because the SSD is just one single SSD the other detail Griffin that I think we
22:37
need to mention is from what I heard from maxtech um apple is putting two ssds in for all of these models which
22:43
means that you're basically writing to the ssds in like a in like a raid zero situation so it creates much much faster
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right speeds I think in fact almost double if not more than double so they corrected a lot of the issues that
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people had with previous generation MacBook airs I mean I fact I think they corrected all of them and now you have
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really no compromises in this machine and they even lowered the price with the increase in tariffs so I don't really
23:09
know what else you could ask for even even better they they no longer carry one of the old MacBook airs to like sort
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of have an imaginary price point like the $9.99 MacBook Air the cheapest one they have for sale is the most current
23:23
best MacBook Air like they they they don't sell the M3 or M2 those those are gone
23:29
like there there's no there's no bad MacBook Air really anymore it's great um
23:34
a few more minor tweaks it has a center stage camera in it now with the desk view feature as well uh Apple calls out
23:41
a lot of comparisons to the last Intel MacBook Air the one from early 2020 I
23:47
think because everybody bought a MacBook Air in like April May of 2020 and so
23:52
like there's like millions of people out there with like the the MacBook a they bought during covid but Apple says in
23:57
their press release the M4 delivers up to 23 times faster performance than that
24:04
model wow Microsoft Excel is up to 4.7 times faster video editing in iMovie is
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eight times faster like all those people it is the the golden hour for those people to upgrade um it's another $100
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cheaper in the education store so it's just $88.99 which is just unbelievable this is a great computer this is a great
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computer um I should say that I've I placed an order for the uh for the the
24:29
base model in sky blue I'll be picking it up next Wednesday at the Polaris M Apple Store first thing in the morning
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so I'll be I'll be writing the review on that at Cult of ma will you be signing autographs or you stand in line I mean
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hey if if any listeners are there bring your own sharpie yeah sure I will dude I
24:47
don't often have instances where people recognize me obviously I'm not that famous but um I have had a couple and I
24:55
don't say this to like um to to make it seem as though I'm like
25:01
this really cool famous person I I always think it's strange when it happens and also most people who listen to the show listen to the audio podcast
25:07
right so like they wouldn't even know what I look like and and in both instances I think the person Rec the
25:13
people recognize me by my voice now one was at macor so that actually made sense
25:18
the other one I was at Disneyland I think I've talked about this on the show before yeah that also makes sense oh oh
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oh yeah just someone to Disneyland just recognizing me by my voice I was getting off the Indiana Jones ride and somebody
25:33
goes Aon and I turn around and there's a person there that that I didn't know and
25:39
he was like my name is my name is Michael and I was like I was like oh uh
25:45
hi he's like I I listen to your show he recognized me from my voice and not only that but this was a person um who had
25:53
hooked me up with discounts in the past when they worked at Apple I mean what a
25:59
coincidence that is and as soon as he told me his name I was like oh dude I of course like this is amazing I was like
26:05
did you know I was going to be here because I maybe I talked about on the show he's like no I'm here randomly like
26:10
outside the Indi I heard your voice and I turned around and I saw you and I recognized you how crazy is that so
26:19
maybe that's in your future Griff were you saying something like J right was the greatest thing since Apple silicon I
26:24
did I was saying exactly that I was like do you remember how they upgraded the um to the M1 Ultra chip for like the Mac
26:31
Studio that was one of the biggest increases in performance we had ever seen I talked about it on my program then you recognize me
26:38
leis all right all starts to make sense so I really want one of these machines I
26:46
don't really have a reason to buy one although I would love to have something that's super lightweight th this is my Logic for winning the the Mac Studio and
26:53
the MacBook Air you got the best of both worlds you got the performance when you need it the best performance and then
26:59
you have the portable I don't actually need to do anything any heavy lifting I just want to have something for my
27:04
living room so when I'm browsing the internet like whatever it's like for that situation I'm like this actually
27:10
does make a lot of sense I'll have the powerful one and then the lightweight one but then of course it's G to cost a
27:15
lot money okay here I challenge you okay buy the base model MacBook Air for your
27:21
wife and then I want you to try editing a video in Final Cut on that MacBook Air
27:27
because I'm telling you these are complet these are so incredibly capable machines you it I might feel like oh
27:32
it's a laptop it can't do anything I can't do any work on this you really can I believe you I believe you I don't know
27:39
if you could do the caliber of video editing I plan to someday do definitely can someday in the future you know and I
27:45
want to be ready for all potential scenarios like video editing scenarios until I realize I actually don't have
27:51
time to edit videos and I have to just hire an editor and then I have like the super powerful machine that I don't even
27:56
use cuz I'm not even doing the editing myself uh but I I I totally believe that I I
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think that you probably could do especially the type of videos most people create where it's not actually a
28:06
lot of editing it's just like some simple timeline edits I'm not going to be doing any advanced Motion Graphics or
28:12
anything I don't even know how to do that stuff so and I'm not going to have like you know like a 10 or 20 deep
28:18
timeline of things one on top of another with all these different effects I'm not even going to have any effects maybe some light titles I could probably do
28:25
that on a Intel MacBook you know and be fine all right so if you get you get the
28:33
uh new Macbook Air and the new Mac Studio is that basically like a tech
28:39
mullet yeah I hadn't thought about that way but that's why we have you on the program for insights like that the tech
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mullet let's talk about the machine I know that we're all excited about the
28:52
2025 Mac Studio now some of you may be mad because we didn't get M4 Max and if
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you had read any of German's stories a year ago you would have known that but you know what I'm not even that mad and
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I still really want one now of course I think that it would be much better if we
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had the M4 um Ultra as an option in this machine and I think it's a little strange that you go M4
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Max in the base to M3 Ultra which is two M3 Max chips but but this
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thing I don't think it matters said like sorry Apple said like a statement to ARS technico that it just takes a really
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long time to engineer the ultra chips I guess so you know so years apparently I
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mean it's it's their highest end chip like it's their equivalent to like the zeeon chips which always were you know
29:47
years behind as well you know if you want the extra if you really need like multi-core parallel performance it takes
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a longer like it it's going to be like a generation old but it's still going to
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be more powerful and the M4 was basically just a spec bump of the F of the M3 so I I I
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think that the M3 especially if you go with the M3 ultra um the higher spec so
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you're going with like the this this always gets so confusing right because they they they have the lower end Max
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chip and the higher end Max chip with the more CPU and GPU course or I guess just CPU cores at this point I can't
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can't even recall so you're going to get such an absolute monster I don't even think that it's going to it's going to
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make that big of a difference um this is this is going to be more powerful than I think virtually any anyone could
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possibly need so you probably know all this I'll Breeze through some of these specs uh the new model starts with M4
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Max 16 G CPU cores up to 40 GPU cores half a terabyte a second of unified
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memory bandwidth it starts at 36 G gigs of unified memory with support for up to
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128 gigs that's if you get the max model which I think is like one of the best values in Computing that you can get you
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can also con configure it with the M3 Ultra it's not the M4 version as I
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mentioned um the M3 Ultra offers up to 32 CPU cores and 24 performance cores uh
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50% more than any previous Ultra chip it also offers up to 80 GPU course which is
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I don't know what you would do that many course um and the base um for the M3
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Ultra version of memory is 96 gigs and uh it comes with one terab of
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storage which I think I think is kind of um a little too low for my purposes I
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would definitely bump that up to one terabyte oh but the other thing I didn't mention is you can get up to a 512 gigs
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of memory absolutely Bonkers I I checked to see if you could configure it with
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512 gigabytes of memory and also a 512 gab hard drive because that would just amuse me deeply that you could have your
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entire hard drive active in memory but you you cannot if you if you update the memory that high then it you know forces
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you to have a terabyte of storage I'm really looking forward to see well first of all the M4
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Max Max studio I think it's going to be an absolutely outstanding machine like I
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I'm I'm I was almost tempted to like return my MacBook Pro and just get that but I need portability so that's
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obviously not going to work for me but if you don't need portability I think that that purchase right there
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is probably one of the best value propositions in Computing um the ultra
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version is going to be an absolute monster for the next two
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or three years I don't even know why you would need so much power what are you doing I guess if you're doing like
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machine learning and stuff then you need all the power that you can get and all the memory that you can get so there's
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that but other than that there's absolutely no reason that I could think
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of that I would ever need an ultra like you'd have to be Ed like 12K
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timelines or something I saw somebody post today that like if you just get you know two of these machines then you can
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run like the most advanced like deep seek R whatever number model on it locally on device using using just two
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of these machines that's like a $8,000 worth a computer sitting on your desk
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but if that's a you know a part of your daily workflow you know the mechs are the best machines for this because they
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have incredibly High memory bandwidth like they're approaching a terabyte per second of memory bandwidth which is just
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insane and like yeah they they're not modular like you know like PCS are you
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know you have to order it once with all the memory and that's all the memory you ever have but like unlike a PC it's
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unified memory so all of this memory is available for graphics or AI or like whatever you're doing these machines are
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one of a kind in the industry it's insane I thought about getting the new
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Mac Studio and getting rid of the cult commander and just having one machine for all of my Computing everything and
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that is kind of a tempting Prospect for me I'm like I could get rid of like this huge PC that I built which I actually kind of love
34:12
the only thing that stops me from doing that is gaming with a 40 an Nvidia 480
34:18
is going to always be better than gaming on a Mac so if I didn't have that gaming requirement then I actually would
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probably get rid of the cult commander and just stream from a Max studio I love how small it is I
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mean the amount of power that you get in the form factor is just absolutely mind-blowing if I could show you guys
34:35
Commander you can see how like how huge it is how many fans I have I can always hear it in fact I have an application
34:41
that I can use to tweak the the um the fan speeds just so it's not always like blowing super loud when the CPU and GPU
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are not hot the Mac Studio is like silent but violent it sits there it's
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small and it can do abs absolutely anything that you could possibly want to do except for I think be a really great
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gaming machine so for me I don't think that it really makes sense for me to get
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one until I'm editing my 12K timelines there there's like one game a year that comes out on the Mac and apple always
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tells you about it in every keynote that's right and it runs great 100 frames per second it was it was stray
35:18
than it was that um that that Lara Croft game then it was no man's Sky you know I
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appreciate that they keep trying I mean I actually wish I had taken ADV advantage of my Apple arcade um trial
35:33
when I bought my iPhone because my kids really love the iPad games that are available at the Apple Store and there's
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like this one in particular like this Crayola coloring game where you can like color eggs and then it hatches a dragon
35:45
or something and apple took all those games out of the iPads at the Apple Store so now when we go there my kids
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don't have as many games to play and I was like it'd be really cool if they could play those games at home and that cray that Crayola game um they charge
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like $5 a month for you can't just buy it you have to like rent it from them in
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fact it might even be more um I think the game just that single game is more expensive than Apple arcade is which
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includes that game do the math for me on that so I I was like it' be cool like take advantage of Apple arcade but like
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all the all the games that are on there that we would want to play are all the games that my kids would want to play like I don't really actually care about
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the AAA titles on on Apple arcade nor do I think anyone else does
36:28
but yeah I'm impressed with the Mac Studio I I I don't even really mind that much that's the M3 Ultra I think I was
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kind of surprised by that and uh I'm trying to get people to convince me to buy one but no one's giv me a solid
36:41
reason to want to drop this much money on one yet uh all right should we should we talk about iPad Air Lewis because I
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think this is actually a huge upgrade yeah you're excited about it I'm I'm not buying one I'm not buying one I
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just got the uh I just got the M4 iPad Pro 11 in I'm happy with that so far
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think I'm going to stick with that but you know this is probably all I would actually need yeah uh okay so the iPad Air gets
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an M3 speed boost and a new magic keyboard always hard for me not to say
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MP3 when I see M3 for some reason let's see new iPad Air retains
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the same design as predecessor with the only notable upgrade being the M3 chip it's an older chip yet it brings a
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decent speed boost Apple says the M3 iPad Air is almost two times faster than
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the M1 version and compared to the A14 bionic powered iPad a the new model is
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up at 3.5 faster it's great how they just keep comparing it to older and older things anyway uh let's see no
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price increase that's nice uh starts at 599 for the 11in model and $799 for the 13inch model um alongside that Apple
37:51
unveiled a redesigned magic keyboard for the iPad Air features a larger trackpad and a 14 key function row yay everybody
37:58
loves a function uh let's see uh Apple lowered the price of the revamped magic keyboard
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this is great I love seeing Apple lower prices it's kind of shocking I know it is very surprising especially with the tariffs man aren't the tariffs like 10%
38:11
now yeah I started having a like a conspiracy theory that what they're doing is they're lowering them and
38:17
they're just they're going to raise them like in a month and say oh it's because of the tariffs we had to raise them and they'll raise them like even higher than
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they were let's hope that doesn't happen but it could never that could never happen right anyway uh let's see revamped magic
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keyboard 11in model costs 269 13in model is 319 uh this thing new keyboard works
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with the M2 M1 and A14 powered iPad Airs that's nice reverse compatibility uh
38:44
unfortunately it only comes in white I think that's kind of an
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interesting color it's going to get super dirty yeah just weird pick for something that you you know like the
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world's most portable computer right right and H let's get something that'll just get grimy I don't know I've never
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owned one maybe they maybe they have some amazing technology that doesn't get grimy but no they definitely do not they
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say the new magic keyboard is backwards compatible with the old iPad Airs but what I want to know is whether the old
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iPad Airs are comp or no whether the new iPad Air is compatible with the old
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keyboard like if you already have like the A14 powered iPad and you bought the magic keyboard like years ago when it
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was first introduced in like 2020 does that still work with the new iPad a they don't make that terribly clear it not I
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mean seems I mean maybe the new keyboard is compatible with the old iPads but the new iPad isn't compatible with the old
39:38
keyboard they they they don't explicitly say that on their website I don't think they've clarified that but anyways uh I
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I'll be getting an iPad Air with the magic keyboard as well at my at a pick up at the Apple Store you went on a
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binge yep I maxed out my Apple card but you're returning all this stuff right
39:55
well yeah I'm buying it for a yeah I I I seriously wonder if at some point they're going to be like dude you we we
40:02
like cuz they track all the stuff on your account right and if they see like everything you buy you always return I
40:08
wonder if they'll say something I don't think so like I I mentioned this to the uh Apple Store employee when I was
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returning both of the Macs that I bought last fall and didn't seem to bother them at all like yeah loads of people do this
40:21
loads of people do this I'm not alone no I doubt that you are but I just wonder if Apple tracks High return accounts and
40:28
at some point they're like hey uh I just wonder if they would say anything like I once had a Nordstrom Rack email me and
40:36
they're like we've noticed that your account has a really high rate of urance this is like not no joke they sent me an
40:42
email and they were like we were just wondering why you return so much stuff and I don't know what they were trying
40:48
to accomplish with that email it almost seems to me like they hired like some summer intern to like investigate
40:54
accounts with high returns and because I do return stuff a lot at Nordstrom like I'll buy a bunch
40:59
of stuff online and then I return it to the store which the store that's near me is like one of the highest
41:05
returning um like gross return stores like in the entire country and I was like I'll tell you exactly why it's
41:11
because your men's section at your store is absolutely tiny the entire store is
41:16
women's the men's section is like a 25x 20 foot section it's probably bigger than that and none of the stuff that you
41:23
have online is available in store ever and I'm like right between SI and so the only way for me to buy stuff from you is
41:29
to buy it in one or two sizes and then keep the one that fits or you know
41:35
return all of it and and and like so anyway my point being like I think like stores do track well they definitely
41:41
track returns I just wonder if Apple ever looks at accounts and they're like hey you return 90% of the stuff that you
41:48
buy from us like why why do you do that so if you get that email let us know because that would be a great con great
41:54
topic to have on this show uh that they that they added you anyway where are we
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sorry yeah Peter um it still comes in the muted colors yeah but uh I got the
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purple one so we'll we'll see if it actually looks purple dude I think this is just such a great iPad and I all like
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this power that they've injected into like their lower end equipment and then for the prices that they're charging for
42:22
this stuff I just think that Apple made a huge value play right now to bring in
42:28
people on the lower end of their products you're about to say something L I just I never understood the uh I never
42:34
understood the iPad Air I I still don't to this day it's like more iPad than probably 90% of
42:41
people need and it's not as good as the pro so who gets them I apparently it's popular I don't know although I think
42:48
Leander said the other day in the newsletter that it never been as popular
42:54
as as either of the other ends really you you ever had bigger iPads the entry
43:02
level iPad is for the budget conscious or the uh ones that they sell to businesses or like schools or stuff like
43:07
that I think the iPad Air is the one that they think most consumers who are a little bit Technical and can appreciate
43:14
like the nicer screen and stuff and the extra features it's the iPad for most consumers that I think most people will
43:19
like because it's the most module like you get the magic keyboard and apple pencil support just like the iPad Pro
43:24
but it doesn't have the super expensive high quality display yeah although I to
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your point leis I I really don't know most people I see I think would be fine
43:37
with just the regular iPad especially now and uh they upgraded the iPad just
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the bass iPad this week as well and if it wasn't already a great device Now
43:49
with an a17 um or a which chip is it sorry oh with the a16 sorry um I just think this
43:57
is such a killer deal for the price and this thing goes on sale all the time like they always drop the prices on the
44:02
iPads and this iPad will do absolutely everything I think most people would
44:07
want to except for well yeah except for Apple intelligence which is a deal breaker for
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no deal breaker a deal breaker for us three for sure but my book The broader Apple
44:22
audience I don't know that anyone will care and if I'm being honest leis I don't think I at all at all I so rarely
44:31
interact with apple intelligence um you know so my text messages won't be
44:37
summarized for me oh no my Apple my my wife kept complaining
44:43
to me that her iPad was trying to summarize her emails and she was super annoyed and finally I was like well we
44:48
could turn that off if you want like if you don't like it she's like yes turn it off so we went in there and turned off
44:54
all the Apple intelligence features she did not like them was not a fan she's like I just want my email to be in the
45:00
order that it came in I just want my text messages to have reg regular notifications I don't want them summarized and so we shut all that stuff
45:07
off and I think a lot of people are in that boat the extent to which my family is aware of Apple intelligence is that
45:14
uh a few weeks ago I got a text asking why does my iPad screen glow rainbow colors when I hold the power button
45:20
what's that right it's a light show that's allegedly
45:25
Siri I actually do like the Siri animation a lot more than I used to um it's like very epercentage
45:44
for kids um most of the ones I have are the Gen n version actually my poor son
45:51
he gets like the really old ones I don't even know what I don't even know what generation he's using but like you press the home button it takes like three
45:57
seconds for the app to close I mean that's how bad it is um so I think maybe
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some of these a base iPads are in my future especially because my
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daughter right after we got her her iPad like sat on it with her knees oh my God
46:15
not not realizing that that was not how you should treat your iPad so like the entire screen is like totally cracked oh
46:22
dear and she felt terrible you know so I tried not to make a big deal out of it cuz I don't wanted her to you know feel
46:27
bad she didn't know but now she knows and I'm like you got to be careful with your iPad like the screen's really you know fragile you can't just put it on
46:34
the floor like my kids were like oh I'm done with the iPad uh and they just throw it on the floor and leave it there
46:39
I'm like and then they roller skate around the house I'm like no you you can't leave it on you can't leave it anywhere that someone can walk on it CU
46:46
like then someone will will walk on it and they'll be like you stepped on my iPad it's not my fault like yeah because you left it on the ground in the middle
46:52
of the hallway so that's where feet go you got to make sure your iPad are elevated to a place where people can't
46:58
sit on them or you leave it on the couch just like covered with a blanket on the couch you sit on it it's like oh something in my butt crack oh it's an
47:04
iPad oh that hurts like whoops glad I didn't break it um I think what I'm
47:10
gonna do is give my daughter my old iPad Pro my 2018 which by the way still sells
47:18
on eBay for like $300 and it's a it's a terrific iPad in
47:24
fact I it might even be smarter to go with I need to test out the lower-end iPads to see how Nimble they are but it
47:32
might make more sense to buy like an old iPad Pro off of eBay than a new base
47:37
level iPad because those things their their prices are really affordable for
47:42
what I've seen and you get a lot of great features and and um I don't know if the power level or not the power
47:48
level per be the2x chip instead of like the A14 I think I would go with the base
47:53
model iPad instead yeah first of all I I'm thoroughly impressed that you know what chip goes into that 2018 iPad Pro
47:59
cuz I had to look it up the a12x I'm like man that was so long ago it's just Bonkers um yeah you're probably right I
48:06
mean it the performance is probably not even as good as the Bas level iPads are
48:13
now but dude this is just such a great iPad I I don't care no one cares that doesn't have apple intelligence these
48:19
are like the perfect kid computers and I would wait for these to go on sale and I'd probably buy like two of them like
48:25
like during Christmas Amazon always puts them on sale or the absolute unbeatable sale if you can get
48:31
access to it is the um is the military store like if you're a member of the military or like the the like the
48:37
Department of Defense you can access I think they call it um uh the AA F at
48:43
shopmyexchange.com they put the iPads and apple stuff on
48:49
insane sales and you can buy them with no sales tax now you have to either know someone who has access to the store or
48:54
you have to have access to it yourself so obviously most people don't but like those stores are unbeatable barring that
49:00
the Amazon sales over the holidays I think are usually really good and um I
49:06
might be picking up some of these um new iPads okay we got a and the best part well the best part about them yeah they
49:12
double the buil-in storage it used to be 64 now it's 128 the same price yes yeah I'm glad that you brought that up I mean
49:18
again huge value play right something that we've been complaining about forever it's like 64 gigs so now there's
49:24
not a single new iPad or Apple device that comes with storage less than 128 gigs so apple is finally finally
49:33
increasing the storage on all of their devices and dude for the price like I
49:39
really just I'm sorry I feel like I'm just gushing here I'm trying not to go overboard but this really is such a
49:45
massive value play across the lower tier of Apple's products and the fact that they haven't
49:51
raised their prices even though they are making these things way more powerful and including more storage is really
49:57
just like good guy Apple meme right it's like they really are doing us a solid
50:02
and I know I've complained about some of their business practices in the past especially with the8 gigs water under
50:08
the bridge Tim we're we're all good now like they're making the right moves and and I'm just I'm I'm proud that they are
50:17
even at their own at the expense of additional profit are making some really great um consumer positive plays here so
50:25
it's really cool to see CU we don't always see this kind of thing happen in fact it doesn't happen very often so it's good to finally see it uh I think
50:32
that's all the hardware news but Griffin's going to tell us what's new in iOS
50:39
18.4 and then he's going to review the the uh the new iPhone 16e which has
50:44
gotten a really positive reception from people who have been using it before we do that though I just want to give a
50:50
really super quick plug to Colt cloth you all know it well maybe not but if
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you don't have your own um cult cloth I invite you to C cloth. cult cloth. if
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you're going to be buying one of these new devices or you have an Apple Watch Ultra dude I don't know what it is with
51:10
my Apple watch Ultra it gets so fingerprint and covered with oils and there's just nothing out there
51:18
that cleans better than cult cloth which is a product I launched in 2015 we just
51:24
keep making them better too we just updated the designs of our Cary cloth they're even better now than they were
51:29
before and they were great before and now they develop like this fuzzy patina there we go Griffin's got one right
51:36
there so the more you use it um the better the performance look at that oh
51:41
my gosh your eyes are so beautiful Griffin I could never see your eyeballs before look at that W look at that such
51:47
beautiful eyes his glasses were so grimy before I couldn't see them and I didn't even know that Lou had blue eyes look at
51:53
that those beautiful blue eyes leou I thought they were Brown turns out it's just as
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glasses anyway I won't go on and on I'll just say that the reason that cloth
52:05
works so well is because they're made with a special fiber that's broken down um which increases the surface area
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which inclas increases its cleaning capability and then these wonderful fibers are tightly uh uh uh woven into
52:19
like these really dense claw so these these are not like the cheap claws that you get when you buy a pair of glasses or sunglass or something like the like
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the difference that the difference materially is night and day and they clean better than anything that I've
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get a free carry cloth extra carry cloth I should say with orders $20 plus Co cloth. okay Griffin let's talk about iOS
52:45
18.4 if I can find this so iOS 18.4 beta 2 thank you brings iPhone 16's visual
52:51
intelligence to the iPhone 15 Pro lineup so if you're just missing out your
52:56
seeing all these dogs on the street and you want to know what breed they are or you're seeing all these event posters and you don't know how to add them to
53:03
their your calendar because you have an iPhone 15 Pro well you can assign visual intelligence to the action button and
53:09
you can get a easy access to that if you want to use it iOS 18.4 beta 2
53:15
introduces nine new Emoji including I would say the Emoji of 20125 face with
53:22
bags under the eyes I mean that's this is not a political get a lot of use I think so especially if you have
53:30
kids um a fingerprint Emoji uh kind of interesting a sort of dead tree uh what
53:38
what they describe as a root vegetable generic root vegetable yeah
53:44
really looks I mean it's it's clearly a radish and not just like a I'm trying to find these emojis are these in the story
53:50
yeah oh there we are sorry didn't go down far enough I can't wait to see the root root V
53:57
vegetable it's really just like a radish um they have a harp a shovel and for
54:03
some reason a splatter of purple goo hey never know when you might need to
54:08
illustrate with some purple goo yep yep I don't get to see a root vegetable I don't see these anywhere um are they in
54:16
the story the actual Emoji I don't see them it might have been like an embedded tweet or something
54:23
like that in the story I don't know I don't see them a what a disappoint all right what else uh there's also a New
54:28
Vision Pro app for iPhone I was initially confused because I saw it was in this beta but like I searched through my phone and I didn't see it apparently
54:35
it isn't automatically installed but um if you're running the beta you can find a link and like download it from the app
54:40
store or something from one of these one of these sites uh The Vision Pro app lets you browse and download content for
54:47
the Vision Pro from your iPhone so you can like remotely download the immersive
54:52
videos or like stuff to it or browse the App Store download apps um but really
54:58
the most important thing is that it just reminds you that the Vision Pro exists if it's maybe been like sitting in a drawer for a while so hopefully not
55:04
that'd be such a shame push notification it's been 17 days since you tried your Vision Pro Ah that's
55:11
tragic um the more interesting thing is Vision OS 2.4 beta 2 on on the Vision
55:17
Pro introduces a new app called the spatial Gallery what this is is it's
55:23
basically Tik Tock for 3D pictures and videos and stuff so like you open it and
55:30
you see like a mix of um like promotional images like behind the scenes for Apple TV plus stuff you see
55:36
the like spatial videos that people have taken around the world that are all like you know shot on iPhone I don't know how
55:42
apple is like acquiring these videos if they're like commissioning them from artists or people are sending them in
55:47
somehow but like yeah like videos of you know somebody like tending to their sheep in Malaysia or going skydiving or
55:56
wow you know snorkeling stuff like that and it really is like Tik Tok like you can just like swipe through video after
56:01
video after video that's dangerous unlike Tik Tok you can reach the end in about 30
56:07
minutes okay that's everything I don't know is cool it's really cool yeah
56:13
there's a um a third party app for The Vision Pro that's kind of like this but it's like an indie thing and I'm pretty
56:20
sure the developer doesn't actually own a Vision Pro himself because it's like really buggy and barely works but
56:25
there's a third party app that's basically the same thing called um I don't know how to pronounce it but like
56:31
fyt like f or F or something like that it's a free app for The Vision Pro and
56:36
it's it's also kind of like that and it and it has much more content because anybody with an iPhone can like submit
56:42
the 3D videos that they've taken to this service it's kind of like an an Instagram for 3D stuff on the Vision Pro
56:49
it's really cool um so that's fun iOS 18.4 beta 2 uh and vision OS 2. for good
56:57
stuff in there I'm excited how how long do we think it's going to be till this arrives like probably Apple said
57:03
April yeah so probably their first or second week in April well then thanks for
57:10
keeping us updated on what's coming down the pipe for iOS 18.4 uh let's move on to the last story
57:18
of the week I want to hear about this iPhone 16e cuz I didn't think that it was going
57:23
to be as hyped as it has become I feel like on the different social media
57:30
channels that people are talking about it on and it seems like people actually really seem to like it my S included so
57:37
I was I was honestly a little negative in the last two episodes I think we all kind of were but then I got it in my
57:44
hands and let me tell you this is an incredible iPhone the first thing you notice is that it's I I looked up in
57:51
advance oh it's 15% lighter than my iPhone 16 Pro whatever that'll that'll be kind of interesting but you have no
57:58
no idea how much lighter 15% actually feels it's it's a world of a difference
58:05
like I feel like I feel like the the hump of when a phone becomes too heavy is like just slightly above where this
58:12
is and because it's just like a little lower like I I'm like holding it one-handed in bed like above my face
58:18
like you know it's it's kind of a straining position after like 20 minutes or so I don't get tired holding this it's
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incredible the second thing you notice is how small the camera is stays out of
58:29
the way of your hands no matter where you hold it I I hold my phone in my left
58:35
hand and on my 16 Pro I guess for the people watching I'll do a visual demonstration of this the camera the
58:41
corner of the camera bump is always right where my pointer finger naturally wants to rest it's always in the way so
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I have to like fidget how I hold it so I'm not like constantly smearing my camera lenses on the iPhone 16e I can
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hold it how I would naturally hold it and I can't even reach the camera with my finger yeah it's way up there I can
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do like a I can do like a whole like windshield wiper swipe across the back of the phone and not even touch it it's
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it's great it's really great it also just like looks really clean yeah it is
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super super spelt I think this is maybe one of the most attractive iPhones that Apple has
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made in a long time just because you don't have that giant ugly like camera wart on the side and it just looks so
59:24
neat I've never purchased a white iPhone before but it just looks really cool
59:30
yeah it does and also when when you're looking at it like face forwards you know you see like the black and silver
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color combination that just like kind of reminds me of like the iPhone 4 or the iPhone you know 5
59:42
5S black and silver rather than like black on black I just think is a really really nice looking color
59:48
combination you know you know aesthetic matters and it having like a
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minimalist um beautiful aesthetic that alone would be reason for a lot of people to like want to buy it and
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there's a lot of people who want to simplify and don't want to have all like the whizbang features they just want
1:00:04
like a regular phone that they can do regular stuff on and if it looks beautiful that and if the price is lower
1:00:11
that's kind of all they might be looking for if this if this this phone honestly feels like a teaser trailer for the
1:00:17
iPhone 17 air that's I was just thinking that same thing yeah especially it's lighter yeah it's it's super light it
1:00:24
has a single camera I mean it doesn't have all the advanced features but again the iPhone 17 air is supposed to like
1:00:29
make up for some of that this this is a great phone um uh the colors it only comes in black and white as as I
1:00:35
mentioned Apple's official line is that if you want color you can add a case well I looked at their cases in the
1:00:41
store and almost all of their cases are boring and terrible as well first of all two out of the five options are black
1:00:48
and white again so what's the point in that one of them is like this ugly dark
1:00:54
green that kind of looks like Pond scum and then they have like blue and Pur blue and pink so these are the cases
1:01:00
you're talking about yeah yeah I have it right here I haven't tried a apple
1:01:06
silicone case in a while yeah and I really case I really just hate that blue
1:01:12
color I really just hate it so very basic and boring yeah yeah it
1:01:17
reminds me of bad Hotel artwork you know how you go in to a hotel and it's like what is that someone paid money for that
1:01:23
artwork it's like if you didn't have artwork have it be good here's the nice thing about the
1:01:29
case though because the camera is so small there's no extra lip on the case
1:01:35
mhm so you just add this case and it's not even especially thick but then your
1:01:40
phone sits completely flat on the table wow it's it's like the uh the mockup that procer had that we never got that's
1:01:47
it the iPhone with the flat back we've cracked the code that's what he got MH
1:01:53
wow anyways what else um it only has a single camera but you know even like the main lens is so good now almost all of
1:02:00
the pictures that I take are in that 1X to 2x range anyway so I didn't really
1:02:06
feel like I missed the telephoto one or the I mean I especially didn't miss the ultra wide one I only really take Ultra
1:02:12
wide or telephoto pictures when I'm like on vacation and I need that extra reach or I want to take like a you know big
1:02:19
sweeping like landscape shot but aside from that just the one camera because
1:02:24
you get that Optical 2X Zoom it's perfectly fine you know it's great uh
1:02:31
what else the camera control I actually miss the camera
1:02:38
control what wow did not expect that no I've sort of internalized that when I'm
1:02:45
using my phone I can like squeeze the bottom right corner to like instantly open the camera I found myself doing
1:02:50
that constantly with this phone and then you broke I kind of wish Apple had um just put on like a basic
1:02:57
like camera button like just a button kind of like the action button but like on the opposite side so that you could
1:03:03
just like open the camera and then I realized I actually wish it was just a basic button on all the
1:03:09
phones does that have the action button on there it has the action button okay okay that that that actually the action
1:03:16
button has become one of my most used buttons like I I use the flashlight on my phone so so much like so being able
1:03:22
to like activate of course now it's not working oh there we go being able to activate the flashlight with one button
1:03:29
is one of my favorite things that they've added to the iPhone uh the next point I want to make
1:03:36
mag safe yeah this phone doesn't have mag safe but I did test it because I have this uh magsafe like popsocket
1:03:43
combination thing that I'll probably talk about on the show again in the future but like you just snap it on here
1:03:49
and I tested this with my various mag safe stands if you put on like a fake magsafe ring like this one and then put
1:03:56
it on like um a MAG safe charger it'll work perfectly fine it'll even work if
1:04:03
you attach like a magsafe battery pack on this it'll work just fine yeah yeah
1:04:09
how does that thing attach to your phone yeah well this thing uh this particular
1:04:14
product which I'll link in the uh show notes it just has like a little sticker
1:04:19
and it's like an adhesive sticker suction cup thing and you just stick it on
1:04:24
there REM huh I'm notar with this you're telling me that if you attach a battery a Maga
1:04:32
battery pack to that disc that you just stuck onto your phone it will charge so they so so so let me get this straight
1:04:40
then the charging technology is in there but the mag it still does wireless
1:04:45
charging it'll effectively work it effectively works as if it's a CH charger that just so happens to
1:04:51
perfectly align itself using magnets okay okay okay I gotcha that that that makes sense because the G charging still
1:04:57
works if you have like a flat surface to plop it on yeah if you have the mag safe wallet then it won't do the fancy thing
1:05:03
where it like detects that you've detached the wallet but it'll still do charging it'll just be at the slower 7
1:05:09
and a half watt speed instead of 25 okay so that's so like if you're interested in an iPhone 16e but you're like oh but
1:05:16
it doesn't have mag safe most people put their phone in a case just buy a third party case that has a MAG safe ring and then it'll work perfectly fine right
1:05:23
span OtterBox all those companies are making cases that have macafe on them because they probably assumed that
1:05:29
the phone was going to have maafe anyways and then you can still use all your accessories and that's really the
1:05:34
biggest drawback with the phone aside from the price right and and most people use their and you may have just said
1:05:40
this most people use their phones with a case anyways so like that now you don't get the faster charging so that's a
1:05:46
drawback but you still get all the mag safe accessibility
1:05:51
functionality um it has the C1 chip I I tested the C1 a lot of uh a lot of the other reviewers
1:05:59
Jason Snell John gr who live in like actual civilization uh you know they
1:06:04
they tested the C1 chip and they're like yeah it works fine in like Urban environments it does 5G it does all that stuff I have the sort of opposite kind
1:06:11
of stress test where I perpetually have a terrible cular connection I always have like two bars of 4G if I'm lucky
1:06:20
jeez and you know what the C1 works perfectly fine in this situation too I I did speed tests inside my car inside my
1:06:28
garage in my living room like Direct speed comparisons it pretty much
1:06:33
performs exactly the same so you you don't have to worry about the C1 it seems like it's a perfectly perfectly
1:06:38
cromulent modem um honestly if I were to
1:06:44
go with the 16e I think the biggest thing I would miss is the promotion display it's still only 60 HZ and I know
1:06:52
some people can't tell the difference I am the sort of person who can immed mediately Spot the Difference and I it
1:06:57
just looks choppy and old to me I I miss having promotion um there was a minor issue
1:07:04
when I was uh setting this device up where the I had installed the 18.4 beta on my
1:07:11
personal phone before I picked it up uh and I didn't realize that the 18.4 beta
1:07:17
wouldn't be available on the 16e last Friday or whenever it was so I couldn't
1:07:24
do I couldn't restore from my my iCloud back up I couldn't do the direct device transfer thing I had to set this phone
1:07:29
up from scratch so sadly it didn't really have all my stuff on it and that
1:07:34
was kind of a pain I would have liked to like you know use this as my one and only phone for like the full week and a
1:07:40
half that I had it but it it was too annoying and so I caved and I transferred back to my 16
1:07:47
Pro after I was done writing the review and making the video but every time I
1:07:53
picked this up just incidentally in the days since then I'm like man this is a really great phone I wish
1:07:59
I I honestly wish I could have more time with it because it is really great well you could have more time with it yeah
1:08:05
it's true I could 18.4 beta 2 is now available for it I could set it up again
1:08:12
but I mean there there are so many more reviews that I have to do like with the MacBook Air and iPad Air that um I can't
1:08:17
be bothered well I think he was I think I think maybe Lewis was implying you could just keep it you know I could well
1:08:24
but you don't need to do that you just a new phone you you you don't need I mean as as pleasant as that phone experience
1:08:30
has been like your the phone that you own Now is better so it's like why it would be a downgrade for sure um so you
1:08:37
don't want to do that all right look I thoroughly enjoyed that review but the truth of the matter is we're out
1:08:44
of time that's it that's all the codcast we have for you guys this week but hey
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1:09:14
like there's something else I was going to say but we have more yeah what a new episode of the call casat comes out every Thursday night oh well I was going
1:09:20
to say this has been the podcast the first 30 plus minute Al conversation you're can to hear all week long new
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episodes of the codcast come out every Thursday night want to thank everyone for listening for hanging out live and we will see you
1:09:31
guys next time thank you for reminding me I was going to just sit there staring
1:09:39
blankly just blinking slowly I saying nothing you saved me I
1:09:45
appreciate that sometime I should have you guys do the end and see if you can do it do this not even get this try not
1:09:52
even going to try I bet you could Louis I bet you take a lot of
1:09:59
practice you know what I've been doing it for 13 years and I feel like I still can't do
1:10:04
it I always forget how is that even possible all right
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everyone hope you have a great weekend I'm going stop it right
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there bye [Music]
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