Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner

Related episode of ATP

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)

H17S is 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

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

Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)

MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)

MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)

Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)

TOSTracker

Example individual comparison

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

Link accounts

Romain Grosjean’s

Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display

MKBHD

The Verge

Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures

Great Saunter

Injinji toe socks

Altra Torin 8 wide shoes

Garmin Venu 4 41mm

Garmin Forerunner 570

Garmin Fenix 8

Suunto Race S

WorkOutDoors

Pedometer++

Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS

Tahoe 26.4 warnings

Slightly more detail from Ars Technica

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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

A19 per MacRumors

Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn

Studio Display XDR

Day-one software update

Mac support

120Hz-worthy Macs

M5 MacBook Air

No change in RAM upgrade pricing?

M5 Pro & M5 Max

Efficiency cores still exist

M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros

If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper

MacBook Neo

Name leak

Prior art

Jason’s review & charts

No indicator light

Jason’s observation about the Apple logo

Announcement video

Post-show: John had a post break containment

Context collapse

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience

HLS

Dan Moren notes prior art

Not based on RSS, laments Manton Reece

Stephen Robles’ video

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Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow blows woes

TruFuel

Follow-up:

Casey got the CableCARD email 😭

YoLink alternatives (via Joe)

IKEA Matter-over-Thread announcement

KLIPPBOK (leak sensor)

BILRESA (remote control)

MYGGSPRAY (motion sensor)

House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)

F-150 Lightning

On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)

Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)

defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8

defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize

macOS document model

…was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7

…and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review

Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)

Technical details (via Videoalex)

Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)

Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)

Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)

System Settings

Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application

Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S

Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)

Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)

GoodTask

Apple March 4 “experience”

MacRumors’ roundup of low-cost MacBook limitations

Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US

Wall Street Journal video

Accompanying article

Apple News link

This predates this administration?

Ask ATP:

What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)

ATP Insider: Roast My Home Screen

John: lock & home

Casey: lock & home

Indigo

Croissant

Marco: lock & home

What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)

Overtime on ATP #675

Casey

AirPods Pro 3

Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω

Desktop speakers

Sonos Era 100 × 2

Sonos Sub Mini

Sonos Combo Adapter

John:

Sony MDR-7506

Kanto ORA4

ATP #630

Marco:

Podcasting

Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω

Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads

Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)

Music

HifiMan HE6

Speakers

KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62

Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D

Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars

BMW i4 M50

Audi e-tron GT

Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI

Empowering the Next Wave of Silicon Engineers

Gell-Mann amnesia effect

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Pre-show:

Marco beach… and app… cleanup results

Instagram reel that John found

Due

YoLink Water Leak Starter Kit

We’re recording ✨from the future✨.

Follow-up:

Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?

Marco’s defection move to Chrome (via Sarvagnan)

Helium Browser

unduck.link

Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)

“Resolved Issue” → “Known Issue”

Objective Development

LaunchBar

Little Snitch

AirTag 2 & speaker tampering

Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)

Explanatory video

Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl

Fastmail’s donation

John’s referral link

Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)

Support document

YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)

Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨

New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?

Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?

Juli Clover at MacRumors

Ben Lovejoy at 9to5 Mac

Ben in December 2024

Vadim Yuryev (of MaxTech)

Ask ATP:

What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)

Casey’s “tailgate battery”

Casey’s “bequeathed” generator

Tesla Powerwall

Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)

What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)

The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011

More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012

Post-show: Casey’s Status Board

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV

ReplayTV

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Pre-show: Marco HVAC update

Daikin

Trane

YoLink temperature sensors (or this one with a wider temp. range)

YoLink leak sensors

LoRa

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Follow-up:

Units corner

Robert Tait’s video

WarGames display reincarnated (via everyone)

ATP Movie Club: WarGames

WarGames

AI

Whoops, we whiffed on disclosing past/future sponsors 🤦🏻‍♂️

Steve Troughton-Smith’s experimentations

Three apps in one day

On usage limits

Dread & fatalism

We Mourn Our Craft by Nolan Lawson

The Tipping Point by Thomas Ricouard (Medium link 🤢)

Productivity promise vs. reality

Anthropic study

Experienced developers are slower?

Microsoft study

Atlassian study

Berkeley: AI adoption ≠ productivity gains

Harvard: Slop hinders productivity

MIT: 95% of businesses see zero returns (PDF)

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding by Rachel Thomas

AI-Generated Code Quality by Mark Levison

Comprehension Debt by Aman Shekhar

Your Brain on ChatGPT by Nataliya Kosmyna et al

Some related links from our AI conversation:

n8n

Stratechery interview with Benedict Evans

Computer (occupation)

Memento mori

Steam Machine & Steam Frame delayed due to component shortages/price increases

Ferrari Luce

Andrew J. Hawkins at The Verge

Walkthrough video with Jordan Golon at PRNDL

Associated post

Dieter Rams

Patek Philippe Nautilus

Braun

Gordon Murray Automotive Type 50

Shift knob & switchgear (timestamp link to 18:04)

Other videos

Leica

Post-show: Casey is car shopping

Porsche Taycan

Audi e-tron GT

BMW i4

Rivian R3

How the second-gen Porsche Taycan is better than the first-gen

Members-only ATP Overtime: China’s ban on electric door handles

Tesla hit with another wrongful death suit by Andrew J. Hawkins

Flush door handles & efficiency by Jonathan M. Gitlin

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