682: Medium Core

• Pre-show: Casey brings us back (xcancel.com/caseyliss/status/311240395612884992) to Anniversary Corner

• Related episode of ATP (atp.fm/4)

• Follow-up:

• An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (mastodon.social/@siracusa/116171778118888641) (via Thomas Dickson)

• MacBook Neo

• John’s theory about color & clamshells

• The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné (ludosphere.fr/@pl/116196092234861482))

• Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta_2)?

• MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)

• SSD speeds (via The Verge (theverge.com/tech/891741/apple-macbook-neo-a18…))

• The  logo

• iPhone 5 intro video (youtube.com/watch?v=Nvqvialze1M&t=327s) is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio (mastodon.world/@peterpuleio/116199630063956093))

• Jason’s review (sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/macbook-neo-review)

• Dave2D’s review (youtube.com/watch?v=h26FlWu7aDc)

• Teardown (youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ)

• Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps (youtube.com/watch?v=d-VOt9559Gk)

• Performance Cores vs. Super Cores

• New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks (mastodon.social/@bshanks/116200679853105308))

• H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC (macrumors.com/2026/02/04/new-m5-chips-ios-26-3…)

• Quinn’s review (youtube.com/watch?v=GfKRbA6I0uw&t=10m15s)

• 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 (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/testing-apples…)

• 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 xcancel.com/Frederic_Orange/status/20291608271…)

• MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)

• MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren (zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/116195515837658175))

• Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey (esq.social/@andrew/116178492413160630))

• TOSTracker (tostracker.app/entity/apple-inc/environment)

• Example individual comparison (tostracker.app/entity/apple-inc/environment/co…)

• Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)

• Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz (mastodon.social/@imthaz/116195938324468705))

• Studio Display XDR

• UFO Test (testufo.com)

• MKBHD’s review (youtube.com/watch?v=yWI33R4xyIc) states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭

• Studio Display XDR white paper (apple.com/studio-display-xdr/pdf/Studio_Displa…) (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech (mastodon.social/@ksliech/116178861387071716))

• Superwide viewing angle

• Timing controller (TCON)

• Calibration

• Display optimization modes

• Formula 1 news (sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/apple-announces-f1-…)

• Drive to Survive (tv.apple.com/us/show/formula-1-drive-to-surviv…) (Apple TV link)

• Dad jokey-est promo video (tv.apple.com/us/clip/tim-meets-max-at-apple-pa…) (Also on YouTube (youtu.be/7i_2TJv96Wk))

• 2026 season preview (tv.apple.com/us/clip/a-new-era-of-f1/umc.cmc.6…)

• F1TV (f1tv.formula1.com) vs. Apple TV

• Link accounts (formula1.com/en-us/subscribe-to-f1-tv)

• Romain Grosjean’s (youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7_En2xEm4)

• Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display (youtube.com/watch?v=SA93zbnoR4U&t=1870s)

• MKBHD (youtube.com/watch?v=FRI78tq9Eik)

• The Verge (youtube.com/watch?v=0ZTRxqVhXJo)

• Post-show: Marco’s Garmin (garmin.com/en-US/c/wearables-smartwatches) adventures

• Great Saunter (shorewalkers.org/great-saunter)

• Injinji toe socks (injinji.com)

• Altra Torin 8 wide shoes (altrarunning.com/en-us/road/mens-torin-8/AL0A8…)

• Garmin Venu 4 41mm (garmin.com/en-US/p/1613801)

• Garmin Forerunner 570 (garmin.com/en-US/p/1464001)

• Garmin Fenix 8 (garmin.com/en-US/p/1228171)

• Suunto Race S (suunto.com/Products/sports-watches/suunto-race…)

• WorkOutDoors (workoutdoors.net)

• Pedometer++ (pedometer.app)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS

• Tahoe 26.4 warnings (macrumors.com/2026/02/16/macos-tahoe-26-4-rose…)

• Slightly more detail from Ars Technica (arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/apple-details-…)

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