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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
The Ability to Be Hotter
- Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
- MacBook Neo
- Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
- New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
- Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
- MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
- “NFW”, says Henry
- “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
- “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
- Ubiquiti
- What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
- “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
- Some shadiness from January
- 🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
- Ask ATP:
- Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
- How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
- Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
- Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
- 10 February: Delayed to 2027
- 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
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It’s Not What Young People Do
- Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
- What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
- What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
- Monitoring & control interface
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
- Mac fleet management advice
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- WWDC 2026 Announced
- Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
- Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
- Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS
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I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug
- Follow-up:
- You’re welcome, world
- Formula 1
- A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season
- Cameras
- Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby)
- Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line)
- The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)
- On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)
- Rosetta
- A deep dive from Colin McKellar
- Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)
- iPhone 17e teardown
- MacBook Neo
- Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
- Apple Platform Security Guide
- On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)
- CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)
- SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)
- John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions
- Teardowns
- Tech Re-Nu
- iFixIt
- Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
- AirPods Max 2
- Overcast beta now has transcripts!
- Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass
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Medium Core
- Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Follow-up:
- An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
- MacBook Neo
- John’s theory about color & clamshells
- The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
- Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
- MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
- SSD speeds (via The Verge)
- The logo
- iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
- Jason’s review
- Dave2D’s review
- Teardown
- Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
- New in Xcode 24.6β3:
CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA(H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)H17Sis the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
- Quinn’s review
- M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
- Baidu leakers
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- 4.61 GHz
- 10-wide decoding
- Performance cores (“M-Core”)
- 4.38 GHz
- 7-wide decoding
- ~70% the performance of a Super Core
- Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
- Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
- 3.05 GHz
- 6-wide decoding
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- Andrew Cunningham at Ars
- L2 cache
- Super: 16 MB
- Performance: 8 MB
- Efficiency: 6MB
- Minimum clock speed:
- Super: 1,308 MHz
- Performance: 1,344 MHz
- Efficiency: 972 MHz
- L2 cache
- Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- New in Xcode 24.6β3:
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
- UFO Test
- MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
- Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)
- Superwide viewing angle
- Timing controller (TCON)
- Calibration
- Display optimization modes
- Formula 1 news
- Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
- Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
- 2026 season preview
- F1TV vs. Apple TV
- Romain Grosjean’s
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
- Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of
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The Price of Your Nightmares
- Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- Million Dollar Homepage
- 2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
- 2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
- M4 iPad Air
- iPhone 17e
- New displays (‼️)
- Studio Display 2
- Studio Display XDR
- M5 MacBook Air
- M5 Pro & M5 Max
- M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
- MacBook Neo
- Post-show: John had a post break containment
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience
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