Episode 630
630: Time to Spiral
Mac Studio benchmarks, Mac Pro chip rumors, the value of products with colors, and the rumored UI redesigns that may come to this fall's Apple OSes.
Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP
March 13, 20252h 36m
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Show Notes
- 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
- iPad Air corner
- “2× bass” false alarm
- Appeal
- Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
- 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
- Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
- 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
- ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
- 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
- M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
- More from Ars Technica
- GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
- Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
- Threads timeline setting update
- Thoughts on Feedback
- Vision Pro Corner
- Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
- Post-show: John’s speaker update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
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