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630: Time to Spiral

157 min • 13 mars 2025

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong
Follow-up:
- Vision Pro Corner
  - New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo
  - Spatial Gallery
  - Metallica immersive special is coming
    - Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
- iPad Air corner
  - “2× bass” false alarm
    - 404
  - Appeal
    - Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
    - 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
  - Example video from Fabian
- More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)
- MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography
- Regarding the “Hidra”
  - ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
    - Interview with Srouji (timestamp link)
  - Lernaean Hydra
- Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra
- Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6
  - GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
    - 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757
    - 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003
  - CPU:
    - M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
      - ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813
      - ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921
    - M3 Ultra multi-core: 28,119
      - ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373
      - ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647
  - More from Ars Technica
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
  - ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
- Threads timeline setting update
  - ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
  - The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
- Thoughts on Feedback
Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
Post-show: John’s speaker update
Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
- VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
- Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹