Accidental Tech Podcast· Folge 630

630: Time to Spiral

Donnerstag, 13. März 2025 · 2 h 37

MP3

Shownotes

• Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong

• Follow-up:

• Vision Pro Corner

• New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo (tv.apple.com/us/show/adventure/umc.cmc.5al10vz…)

• Spatial Gallery

• Metallica immersive special is coming (metallica.com/news/2025-03-11-metallica-apple-…)

• Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman (youtube.com/watch?v=zh93kmgZvUg)

• iPad Air corner

• “2× bass” false alarm

• 404 (macrumors.com/2025/03/05/13-inch-ipad-air-m3-c…)

• Appeal

• Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock (podcastindex.social/@js/114133952981032920))

• 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)

• Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)

• Example video from Fabian (mas.to/@Jochel/114132356881250911)

• More on colors (via Yossi Kanner)

• MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography (macrumors.com/2025/03/07/new-macbook-air-corre…)

• Regarding the “Hidra”

• ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon? (atp.fm/562)

• Interview with Srouji (youtube.com/watch?v=F8mhpojD4XI&t=2068s) (timestamp link)

• Lernaean Hydra (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernaean_Hydra)

• Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra (bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-09/appl…)

• Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6 (browser.geekbench.com)

• GPU: M3 Ultra Metal (browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/3785744): 259,668

• 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best (browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/3795599) at 231,757

• 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average (browser.geekbench.com/metal-benchmarks) at 209,003

• CPU:

• M3 Ultra single core (browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10933046): 3,144

• ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best (browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10918502) at 2,813

• ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average (browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-16-inch…) at 3,921

• M3 Ultra multi-core (browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10933046): 28,119

• ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average (browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-studio-2023-24c…) at 21,373

• ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average (browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-16-inch…) at 25,647

• More from Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/m4-max-and-m3-…)

• Apple is working on a larger iMac? (9to5mac.com/2025/02/16/apple-working-on-larger…) (AKA John tries to save face)

• ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (atp.fm/473) (Overcast link to (overcast.fm/+R7DWJClow/1:31:16))

• Threads timeline setting update

• ATP #616: I Have No Grippers (atp.fm/616)

• The Verge’s article (25 November 2024) (theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305690/threads-defau…)

• Thoughts on Feedback

• Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/apple-r…)

• Post-show: John’s speaker update

• Vanatoo Transparent Zero Plus (amzn.to/4hlDD2F)

• ADAM Audio D3V (amzn.to/3FlzNcx)

• Kanto ORA (amzn.to/3F2GoIX)

• Kanto S2 speaker stands (amzn.to/4c87IBG)

• Kanto ORA4 (amzn.to/43nSeHz)

• Kanto S4 speaker stands (amzn.to/4bNE9VZ)

• SoundSource (rogueamoeba.com/soundsource)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news

• VW’s ID.Every1 Concept (caranddriver.com/news/a64054081/vw-id-every1-c…)

• Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹 (autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-rei…)

• ID.2all concept (volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/worl…)

• The Verge’s coverage (theverge.com/news/626311/vw-physical-controls-…)

• Volvo ES90 (media.volvocars.com/us/en-us/models/es90/2026/…)

• Euro NCAP puts their foot down (theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091043/euro-ncap-safet…)

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