630: Time to Spiral

• 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
      • Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman
  • iPad Air corner
    • “2× bass” false alarm
      • 404
    • Appeal
      • Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
      • 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
  • Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
    • Example video from Fabian
  • 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
  • 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
    • More from Ars Technica
  • Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
    • ATP #473: Fanboats and Coattails (Overcast link to 1:31:16)
  • Threads timeline setting update
    • ATP #616: I Have No Grippers
    • The Verge’s article (25 November 2024)
  • Thoughts on Feedback
• Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
• Post-show: John’s speaker update
  • Vanatoo Transparent Zero Plus
  • ADAM Audio D3V
  • Kanto ORA
    • Kanto S2 speaker stands
  • Kanto ORA4
    • Kanto S4 speaker stands
  • SoundSource
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
  • VW’s ID.Every1 Concept
  • Physical buttons are coming back! 🥹
    • ID.2all concept
    • The Verge’s coverage
    • Volvo ES90
    • Euro NCAP puts their foot down

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