Now that the Mac Studio has been in the (sticky) hands of Apple Freaks, the consensus has formed: unless you’re a super-power user, you’re still fine with an M1 Mac Mini. I am relieved to have my choice validated by the Mackerati.
Here’s a tech-heavy explanation of the above:
Does anyone actually like the iPhone Podcast app? It has multiple different versions of basically the same screen that do mostly the same stuff but in different ways. The only things that are consistent is that it’s pretty much impossible to get rid of a podcast from the list and that, if you simply glance at it, it will override whatever you’re doing and play a podcast that you don’t want to listen to right now.
I’ve never had a need to try another app. Are any other podcast apps that much better to make it worth switching? CarPlay support?
I’ve used Overcast for years and have never had a problem with it. It seems to be the preference of a lot of independent podcasters.
Similarly, I’ve used Downcast regularly for years and never had any problems. It came recommended at the time (again, years ago) – there may be better options out there now, but I’ve never felt any need to switch.
Do either Overcast or Downcast have a companion CarPlay app?
Overcast works great on CarPlay.
I think Downcast does, but I’m not certain (and I don’t know how well it works) – I’ve never had/used CarPlay.
I’m trying to figure out what 802.11 protocol my phone has negotiated with the access point (it’s probably going to be n or ac), but I cannot figure out how to get my iphone to cough up that info. Has anybody else figured this out in the past?
Just pulled the trigger on a 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro, maxed out on everything except storage. Hoping for it to be my new travel edit/compositing system. All the benchmarks I’ve seen are more than double over my current main system, a maxed-out iMac Pro.
Zero-covid policy in China has my wait time at 2 months.
That new M1 Max system-on-a-chip is quite impressive. 400GB/s of memory bandwidth and support for up to 64GB of unified memory.
I don’t think that info is available from your iPhone, only your router. There may be some app you can download and tell, however.
Nice! That chip is a beast; reviewers see little performance difference between a the M1 Max and the M1 Ultra.
I’m loving my M1 Mac Mini. I much prefer using it to my iMac.
And a 32-core GPU. I’m really looking forward to putting it through it’s paces.
Interesting thing is that if the benchmarks are real, I’ll be using my iMac Pro as a display for my M1 MBP as my main system as well.
I hope you got the glass pack exhaust.
Rumors around that Apple are going to bring back their Airport network hardware. Make it so.
Lemme guess:
ETA: just read up on the rumors, which talk about a device that only supports WiFi 4 at 2.4GHz. I don’t think even Apple could get away with releasing a product like that these days.
The old AirPort Extreme was dual band so, if they’re resurrecting the line, it’ll be that at least.
Part of the justification for the rumor is that Apple has always put out a new Airport model in support of a new Mac Pro, so that the network connection for the desktop is always optimized for it. There’s a new Mac Pro expected at the June Applecon…
All I know is that I have had endless niggly issues with Time Machine ever since I retired my AirPort Extreme that never happened before. I’m more than ready for a new AirPort router.
