Episode 561

561: Market Your Bug

Our initial M3 Max MacBook Pro impressions, details on M3-family SSD performance, more enthralling content about body oils, and Marco's self-created need to go to a hardware store.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

November 16, 20232h 15m

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Show Notes

Show Administrivia:
- 🗣️ THE ATP HOLIDAY STORE IS HERE 🗣️
  - Note: long-sleeve and utes sizes have been added!
- 🗣️ NEW MEMBER’S SPECIAL! 🗣️
  - ATP Dev: Other People’s Code
Follow-up:
- Face ID is also an accessbility affordance (via Todd Scheresky)
- Uses for 🛢️👃🏻 (via Jamie West)
- Microwaves
  - The modern knob (via Nate)
  - There’s such a thing as too much (via Kieth Bradnam)
- Scanning old photos
  - Ryan’s procedure
  - Todd Vaziri’s advice
    - ScanCafe
- Possible laptop improvments (via Nathaniel Velez)
- Apple explains dynamic caching (via Gokhan Avkarogullari)
  - Metal Profiling Tools
  - Performance Best Practices for Shaders
  - Memory is now unified within the GPU (via Jonathan Ragan-Kelley)
- M3 SSD speed vs. M3 Pro SSD speed
- SSD price graph (via CG)
- Mac laptops have had the same base RAM since 2017 (via David Schaub)
  - Jobs vs. Cook
Marco and Casey’s new laptops
#askatp:
- What is a “neural engine”? (via Richard Levitt)
- How often should bugs on beta OSes be reported? (via Mike Hoffman)
  - ATP #324: Automatic Kicking Machine
- Is there a way to get Photos.app’s geotag metadata into the actual files? (via Santiago)
Post-show: Marco’s hardware adventure
- Nest Thermostat
- Ecobee Thermostat