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This week: iOS 27 is getting a “Snow Leopard” update, Android is getting AirDrop support, your Mac is getting custom folder icons, Griffin is getting the best cheap 5K display — and you’re getting our top Black Friday deals!
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0:00 Intro
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18:27 Apple’s Black Friday “deals”
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0:02
Hello and welcome to the coldcast. The best Apple conversation
0:07
messed it up. You're going to hear all week long. All right. So, uh, joining me today we
0:13
have Griffin and Lewis. Hello, Griffin. Good evening. What? Both at once? What the
0:18
Yeah, you're in a hurry to get out of here for Thanksgiving, aren't you? I know. I can't wait to get this.
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It doesn't make the turkey come any faster, Leander. Well, I don't know. I'm going to go. There's some turkey right behind me. I'm
0:30
going to go grab it right now. Raw. It's raw. I'm going to eat it raw. Uh I was thinking in the shower last
0:35
week that I didn't like the way I was doing it, so I thought I'd mix it up this week. I maybe I should have warned you, though. Well, we have a fun show
0:41
this week, don't we? Sort of. We're going to be talking about It's always fun. Come on.
0:48
iOS 27. Mhm. Which is going to get a Snow Leopard update. Android is getting airdrop
0:54
support. I actually did some research on this and found out why. and uh your Mac is getting custom folder icons. This is
1:00
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All right. Thanks so much, Nordlayer, for sponsoring this week's Cult. Yeah. So, let's talk about iOS 27. This has
2:44
got a new focus apparently. Why don't you tell us about Griffin? So, some iPhone users claim recent iOS releases
2:50
are riddled with bugs. I don't know why that's written so vague. It's iOS 26. A lot of people are saying that iOS 26 is
2:56
very buggy. I am one of them. I encounter new problems almost every day. Um,
3:02
really? Oh, yeah. God. And Mac OS Tahoe is absolutely terrible. I had this I had this problem earlier this week where uh
3:08
every link every like Safari link I clicked from another app would switch to the Safari application, but then it
3:14
wouldn't do anything. Safari just didn't open any new pages. So that was really fun. Um, it has not been a very stable
3:21
release. Uh, so with iOS 27, Apple is going on a bug hunt. Quote, "For iOS 27 and next
3:28
year's other major operating system updates, including Mac OS 27, the company is focused on improving the
3:34
software's quality and underlying performance." Uh, Mark German reported and same with Watch OS, Vision OS, etc.
3:42
quote, "Aiming to improve the software, engineering teams are now combing through Apple's operating systems,
3:47
hunting for bloat to cut, bugs to eliminate, and any opportunity to meaningfully boost performance and
3:52
overall quality. Uh, and this will apparently take priority over introducing new features.
3:59
Now, that's not to say that uh you won't have anything to look forward to. The company will also be rolling out new AI
4:05
powered capabilities. So, yeah, you will have nothing to look forward to,
4:10
right? Some of these might work. Yeah, some of them might work. Uh there'll be the debut of AI enhanced
4:16
Siri scheduled to come in iOS 26.4 in the spring. And German also mentions uh
4:21
Apple's AI powered web search feature is slated for iOS 27. So at least two new
4:29
things coming next year. Uh in addition to the uh bug fixes that we're facing.
4:35
Health Plus. Don't forget health plus. Oh yeah, Apple Health Plus. the the new paid AI feature system. We'll we'll see
4:42
how that goes. I don't know. Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to that. U I I I I think a focus on on quality, maybe
4:49
forcing everybody to slow down for a moment and make sure that everything works properly is is a good first step.
4:55
But I think a close second for me, arguably maybe even more important, uh I
5:00
I have a request that actually comes from the marketing department. This is what I want to see most at WWDC27.
5:08
a problem that we encountered just in that very story that I was trying to cover. Apple needs to give us a name
5:15
that we can use to refer to all of the like version 26 software updates. You know,
5:22
Apple silicon, Apple silicon is a marketing term that they introduced to be like an all-encompassing term for,
5:28
you know, the A series chips, the M series chips, the H3 chip, the R1 chip.
5:33
you know, we all just say Apple Silicon now instead of ARMbased Macs. People haven't uttered that phrase since like
5:39
2019. Um, liquid glass is a slightly pretentious name for their design style,
5:46
but you know what? iOS 7 never had a name associated with its uh, you know,
5:52
visual design language. So, we just all had to call it the iOS 7 simple design language for like years and years.
5:58
Apple's really good at giving us like, you know, names that we can use every time that just make talking about these
6:03
things easier when they want to. And, you know, I I'd much rather have like a name from Apple Marketing that I can use
6:09
to say instead of saying iOS 27, Mac OS 27, etc. How do you feel about that?
6:17
Like a I mean, I've even seen people refer it's the OS 27 updates. That's what people are saying. You know, that's
6:23
the whole thing. OS27. So, you wanted a term that covered like like Lewis just said for for all of the
6:29
different I want an Apple designated term that we can use to actually like call these things a name that makes sense.
6:35
Uh, okay. How about OS 27? Yeah, I don't know because they're all blank OS 27, right?
6:42
Yeah. You know what's weird? Like with Mac OS 26, Apple actually calls it Mac OS Taho
6:49
and it support doc doesn't call it 26. It's very weird and I can never tell like it's supposed to be Mac OS Tahoe,
6:55
Mac OS 26, Mac OS 26 Tahoe, Mac OS Tahoe 26. What?
7:00
That to me is confusing. I always refer to it as Mac OS 26 Tahoe, but you know it in the style that I
7:07
write about Mac OS. It It's weird how it's the only one that gets a name. I wonder how long it'll continue that
7:13
historical reasons. Well, uh, as you you know, this is Snow Leopard, isn't it? Redux, right? This is
7:18
when Apple decided to go on a bug hunt in Snow Leopard. Well, um, and skip features. Did that work?
7:26
Well, I have I have a point to make about that. Uh, Snow Leopard is like sort of mythologized as being like, you
7:32
know, the the zero new features year. And, you know, the year that they focused on bug fixes and, uh, that has
7:38
kind of never been true. Uh, like if you look at the new features of Mac OS 10 Snow Leopard on Wikipedia, you see a
7:44
very long list of features, much longer than zero. It introduced the Mac app store. It, you know, the finder was
7:51
completely re rewritten in Coco. A bunch of apps were fully rewritten to be 64-bit. It had QuickTime X, which was
7:57
the brand new version of the QuickTime app that, you know, is basically the foundation of what we still use today.
8:03
Safari 4 had a bunch of new features in it. Uh, many more features than zero. you know, for developers, it had um
8:10
something called Grand Central Dispatch, which allowed developers to easily write code that could take advantage of like,
8:16
you know, the new multi-threaded and multi-core processors at the time. Um,
8:22
Snow Leopard was actually a really big year in terms of features. Uh, it it sort of gained its reputation for being
8:28
a bug fix update largely in part because people remember the last version of Snow
8:34
Leopard, Snow Leopard, you know, 10.6.8, 8, the one just before they released Mac
8:39
OS 10 Lion, the next version after that. Um, yes, I remember that distinctly. Yes, it's 10.6.8.
8:44
Yeah. Yeah. Really, it's just burned into my memory. Really? Every version. But the thing is,
8:50
every early version of Mac OS 10 got a bug fix year because they didn't release a new version every year. Snow Leopard
8:57
lasted two years, Leopard lasted two years, like Mac OS 10 Tiger uh was the
9:02
most recent version for like two and a half years. you know, they would release a new version, you know, one year and
9:08
then they would spend the next two years as bug fix years. It was only when, you
9:13
know, Craig Federigi declared that they were going to start doing, you know, annual software updates
9:19
that, you know, the bug fix year kind of got thrown away. But, uh, that is to say
9:24
that that Mac OS 10 Snow Leopard um, wasn't really special in that regard. It was just, you know, the last one where
9:31
they didn't immediately replace it the year following with more features and they didn't take the time to do bug
9:36
fixes. But, uh, was, uh, was Snow Leopard the one where they actually put a screen up a slide up
9:41
on the screen said zero new features. Yeah. And then the immediate next slide was Steve Jobs talking about the new features that it had. So, it's it's
9:47
always been, you know, kind kind of a marketing thing more than uh actual truth.
9:52
Well, I was going to say, I mean, like, you know, Apple doesn't purposely put out buggy software. I mean, isn't every doesn't they try to squash every, you
9:58
know, as many bugs as they can find uh in the beta period before they officially release, you know, each OS?
10:04
The the software team is organized into a much into a collection of much smaller uh you know, projects and and
10:10
engineering teams. Like it's not like there's one team that's working on Mac OS 26 and then, you know, they all start
10:17
working on Mac OS 27. you know, you'll have a team developing new features for reminders or Safari or these are all
10:22
discrete teams and they might be, you know, be further subdivided into teams that are just working on specific features. My understanding from the
10:29
outside, not having worked at Apple, but having talked to a few Apple engineers is that, you know, once your team
10:34
accomplishes their task, you know, the team working on linked notes in the notes app, you know, puts that feature
10:41
into, you know, iOS 18 or 17, you know, then that team is disbanded and moved on
10:47
separate things. So there might be bugs remaining in their work that they aren't able to fix because you know then the
10:53
team is whittleled down to just you know one or two people who are assigned to that you know for the next year and then
10:58
they'll then they'll move on to something else the next year as well. So though the way that Apple architects their you know and organizes their
11:04
engineers a lot of times like they they ship features they ship a major version of an app and then they don't have the
11:10
resources to fix everything that comes in. So this is actually a meaning this is a meaningful um you know distinction
11:15
they're making. this is this is actually they're going to you know it's it's it's to take these teams let's go back look
11:22
at all the stuff we did let's fix it make sure it's all polished
11:27
lickety split and and smooth and all that kind of stuff but then you know not not not not do new features I guess all
11:33
the new features are going to be AI anyway right is it going to it's all handed over to the AI to Siri
11:39
so well I guess I look forward to that I've had actually really kind of like I haven't had any bug problems you know
11:45
that I can think of. I think my phone is pretty bug free from I I you know it
11:50
hasn't done any really strange stuff that I can remember. It's because it's running um iOS 26 whatever it is the latest
11:58
version. How it works might be might be inverted this year where you know the if you're on a developer beta you're probably
12:03
getting a more stable experience than the regular No, it's 26.1. So I'm
12:10
not I I I stopped doing the betas. So it's just a regular 26.1. That's a funny That's a funny angle for a post. That's
12:16
a really good angle for a post if you want to, you know, get less bugs going to the the buggy developer beta.
12:21
Yeah, I still haven't uh dared to update my Mac. But uh on iPhone, I don't know. I
12:28
it I don't find it to be that pleasing to be honest. I I don't I'm not in love
12:33
with it. It's like uh it's okay. It's kind of gimmicky. Looks kind of cheap in
12:39
a lot of instances. Things look just cheap. I don't know how else to explain it, but it's like not much thought was
12:45
put into this. Um, I mean, I'm sure they put a lot of thought into it, but it
12:50
my god, they made the whole thing in physical artifacts, you know, to like slide around on a design table in the
12:56
precious Apple Design Studio. Yeah. How much money do they spend on that, I wonder? Yeah, a lot. A lot. Everything
13:03
custommade. Let's talk about um file sharing. Huge breakthrough in the file sharing world.
13:09
Android can now do Apple AirDrop. Um, so quote, this is from Google. Uh, as part
13:15
of our efforts to continue to make crossplatform communication more seamless for users, we've made quick
13:20
share, which is uh uh Android's uh file sharing um feature interoperable with
13:26
AirDrop, allowing for two-way file sharing between Android and iOS devices. Google wrote on its blog, quote, "This
13:32
new feature made it possible to quickly share your photos, videos, and files with people you choose to communicate
13:38
with without worrying about the kind of phone they use." So, AirDrop uses a local peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection. It
13:44
uses Bluetooth to let the devices find each other, and then it uses a fast peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection to actually transfer the files and pictures
13:50
and other data. So um Apple developed this uh using a proprietary um standard
13:57
um which they is called the Apple wireless direct link AWDL
14:03
um but you know it's proprietary so other companies couldn't make their own wireless share share wireless sharing
14:08
features compatible with airdrop but earlier this year the EU digital markets act the DMA required Apple to adopt new
14:14
interoperable wireless standards. So, Apple added support for the Wi-Fi Allianc's Wifi aware standard instead of
14:21
AWDL. Um, and now this is kind of like this isn't as as as as as uh as bad as it
14:27
seems because um the uh that standard the the Wi-Fi was actually based on
14:32
Apple's AWDL um and uh they did all the work that Apple did for this um they they adopted
14:39
in this new standard. So, Wi-Fi was added to iOS 26 and iPad OS, iPad OS 26.
14:46
Uh, and it runs on iPhone 12s and later and most iPads that have been released in the last three or four years.
14:52
However, Mac OS 26 is not listed as a supported operating system. Neither is Vision OS. Um, and uh, tellingly, Mac OS
15:01
is not considered to be a gatekeeper operating system under the DMA as both the iOS and iPad OS are. Uh and then
15:08
Google confirmed to the Verge that Apple wasn't involved in this at all. Uh Google has supported the Wi-Fi aware in
15:13
Android since version 8, but right now um this this crossplatform tech is compatible only with the Pixel 10
15:19
family. That's because Google added it to these high-end models. Uh and support for this standard is going to have to be
15:25
up to the the individual Android device maker, Samsung, Motorola, and so so forth, I believe, is what I'd read. So,
15:32
it's up to them to actually add this to add to to Quick Share, not Google overall. in in uh Android. And of
15:38
course, most Android handsets are running older versions of of the OS. They tend not to be as good with updates
15:44
um as Apple is. So, you know, it might be quite a long time for Android users to see this.
15:50
Um I don't know. Is this an a feature you think that Android users are clamoring for? Airdrop. And do you use
15:56
AirDrop a lot? I I use AirDrop. Although, funny enough, actually, my mom Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Me, too. My mom yesterday
16:02
was going to get trying to get a lot of pictures from me using AirDrop. My mom knows how to use my phone better than I
16:07
do. Yeah, I use AirDrop all the time. It's absolutely essential. I mean, airdropping between devices, it's just
16:14
the best way to get a file from your phone onto your Mac or from your Mac onto your phone again. Yeah. Or, you
16:19
know, just sharing pictures between people. You know, everybody takes, you know, a bunch of pictures of the same event, but we
16:24
all have our different sets of it. We just airdrop them to each other. Like, what else are you going to do? Like, if you try texting them, they're
16:31
going to be compressed to really horrible low resolutions. you can't email them because, you know, there's
16:36
email limits of like 35 megabytes. And Apple has their like mail drop feature, but it's kind of clunky and
16:42
annoying to use. And I've never seen anybody like genuinely know how to how to deal with that when they receive one.
16:49
You know, you can try uploading a bunch of stuff to Google Drive, but again, a lot of steps, really complicated. The
16:54
best way is to just select everything, airdrop to it, and yeah, it might take a few tries, but it take, you know,
17:00
10 minutes later, everybody has every photo and video in the full original quality. It's just the best system. And you know, Android
17:07
friends, sorry, you're out of luck. Oh, Airrop's awesome. I can't wait to
17:13
use it with an Android friend. Do you have an Android friends?
17:18
Uh, yeah. I actually have plenty of friends who have Androids, but uh I mean I to be honest, there's a lot of Apple,
17:24
you know, iPhone people who don't know about AirDrop. It's kind of one of those great features that's underappreciated.
17:30
Apple's best feature ever. You should post that and it'll go viral on threads. Are you using it?
17:37
You're probably not even using it. Actually, here's another question. Among your Android friends, how many of them
17:43
are Pixel devices or are they like Samsung's Huawei phones? Like, do you know what the Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, I
17:49
think almost all of them are Samsung. Seems like I don't I'm you know,
17:55
I I see reports that like the the Pixel phones don't actually sell that great, but I actually know a few people who have them. Pixel phones.
18:01
I mean, I think they're you can recognize them really easily because they have like the distinct uh
18:06
camera, not a plate, the iPhone Air Bar. Yeah. Yeah. Uh
18:12
yeah, I don't know. I don't I don't think I remember seeing any Google Pixels. I I I'm sure that you know
18:17
people you hang out with would I mean you know they're the best, right? They're the best ones. They have the best Google features. If if you're like
18:23
totally into Android phones, that's what you're going to get. Uh well, let's talk about um what
18:29
everyone really is worrying about this this weekend is Black Friday Black Friday deals. And there's a good reason
18:35
why you might want to skip Apple's Black Friday offering, right, Lewis? Yeah. I mean, like like most years,
18:41
Apple isn't really cutting prices. They're handing out gift cards, giving the opportunity to give them more,
18:46
right? Commit you to the brand uh online or in Apple retail stores. You know, you
18:52
can get these gift cards in in a variety of of denominations up to $250, which
18:57
sounds pretty good except, you know, you have to buy a pretty expensive device to get that. Obviously, $45,000 MacBook to um to get it.
19:04
Uh yeah. So, let's see like some of the examples. $75 gift card if you buy an iPhone 16 or iPhone 16e gift card up to
19:13
$100 with an iPad Air or well I'm sure up to there's a lot of upto's in this
19:19
post and a lot of upto's on Apple's site you know oh get up to uh you know I can't remember what it was up to $75 off
19:26
AirPods or AirPods Max right well which one do you think you're going to get the $75 back on
19:33
so uh you know I mean that's why we wrote this post you know why you might want a pass on Apple's Black Friday
19:38
deals, you know, cuz basically they're not that great at deals. Um, you know, it's nice to shop with Apple. It's nice
19:44
to go in there and have that experience. And certainly the customer service is fantastic. You know, if you buy the
19:51
stuff online, you get the free engraving. I mean, there are perks to buying from Apple. But if you want the best price, if if the best price is what
19:57
you're going for, probably not the way to go, right? As usual. I mean, to be honest, there's
20:02
nothing new about that. This is just kind of like the tradition. Well, they used to give you AirPods, didn't they? or or or uh Oh, actually,
20:08
no. But did they ever do that on Black Friday? I begun. Can you cut that? It used to be like their back to school deal. That was uh that was pretty good.
20:15
Like when I bought my 2015 MacBook Pro, I happened to be buying it in the summer because I and I I also happen to still
20:20
be in college. So, I guess it was actually a back to school deal, but like their education discount was like, you
20:26
know, the the the Beats overthe-ear headphones at the time, which I think you had like a value of, you know,
20:31
around 250 bucks. But now they only give you like entry-level AirPods. So it's they've they've devalued it a little
20:37
bit, but the AirPods are the ones that everybody wants. So you can hardly blame them. And don't they give you the option to pay a little more and get slightly
20:43
better AirPods if you want? Yeah. But you know, then you have to pay a little more. And
20:49
well, Apple uh you know, doesn't really do sales, does it? This is, you know, it's kind of notable that they even they
20:55
even dain to uh partake in this. And of course 2 two 250 is like uh most goods
21:02
most things you buy from a retailer are marked up at least uh 50% like you know the wholesale price
21:09
is probably half of what you're paying. Um and so if this is true of Apple too
21:15
you know they they they they're making uh you know half of what you pay for it is is profit to them and they give you a
21:21
$250 gift card that's you know that there's almost no discount whatsoever basically at the end of the day if you
21:26
if you work it out. It's like it's it's they're not they're not they're taking anything from Tim Cook's precious bottom
21:32
line. They're maintaining those margins. They're right up there. Where are the best deals? I mean, I've also some pretty good deals on Amazon. I
21:38
mean, the the the AirPods 4, they're like half off. That's crazy. They they've gone down to what? $69.
21:44
Uh yeah, I think that's right. For the for the regular AirPods 4 and it's 99 for the ones with active noise
21:51
cancellation is the latest prices we've seen. Uh this one is not necessarily a MacBook Air. I mean, a Black Friday
21:58
deal, but the MacBook Air, M4 MacBook Air, 749 bucks. I mean, it's been that
22:03
way for a couple of weeks now. That That's an amazing deal, right?
22:08
Uh, for sure it is. Yeah, that's beautiful computer. That's a, you know, they're so good. They're so fantastic. Uh, they
22:14
they definitely compete with like Well, saying that I was going to say they compete with MacBook Pros. I mean,
22:20
there's there's the industrial design, the features, I think, are as almost as good as the pros. because they can't compare with the pros on on on
22:26
performance. So if you're doing like they can't compare with the expensive MacBook Pro, but like the entry-le MacBook Pro still has the same chip in
22:32
it, you know, as the entry- level chip as the Air. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just the ports, right?
22:39
Uh entry level iPad reached a new low. 274 as we're uh looking at it right now.
22:45
274. That's down from 34. Fantastic deal. Yeah. Another fantastic device. Great iPad. The only thing wrong with it
22:51
is it doesn't support Apple intelligence. Maybe that's not such a bad thing. Oh no. Oh my god. Every time like I check in
22:58
with Apple intelligence every while, especially the image playground one cuz you know we're creating images all the
23:03
time for the website. You know, different graphics, different images, whatever. Apple intelligence. It is the
23:09
absolutely the worst piece of crap I've ever tried for creating an image. The worst. It almost never even will do
23:17
anything, you know, because there's so so many, you know, guard rails or whatever. Uh, it's just when it does
23:23
it's like just garbage. It's it's it's amazing. It's It's actually amazing that
23:28
Apple hasn't just said, "You know what? We screwed up. We're just going to just get rid of this." I mean,
23:34
it's amazing to me that they even shipped it in the first place or even thought it was worth demoing. It's remarkable.
23:40
Yeah. I mean, you know, they they just felt like they had to get on the bandwagon and but boy, what a just what
23:45
an insult, man. I mean, the fact that it won't create the most basic of images,
23:50
it just says, "Oh, sorry. I don't understand that or I can't do that or whatever." It's
23:56
you compare it to I guess it's safe. It's It's safe for kids, you know. I guess it's a kids feature, isn't it really? Like safe for
24:02
kids. All the adults on the rim are going to go to Nana Banana or um M Journey or something else. But, you
24:07
know, for children. Is that is that Apple's target market though? I mean, is that is that the
24:12
whole thing? like we can't have anything that's that's worth DMO for a long time, hasn't it,
24:18
with the app store and you know the media Apple TV. It's it you know it's like let's not put anything in there
24:23
that's going to upset the children. Yeah, I suppose. I mean it seemed radically different to me, but uh
24:30
I I'm not sure if like the kids are into Image Playground. I haven't seen anybody share an image playground image
24:36
like unironically without like poking fun at it. Yeah, true enough. Exactly. I don't think I've ever seen anyone share any of them at
24:43
all ever. One of one of the things that we do at Cult of Mac, every day in Slack, uh, one
24:49
of our writers, Ed Hardy, will will produce an image based on, you know, whatever the madeup national holiday is,
24:56
right? International Pancake Day or whatever. He'll he'll he'll create an image using
25:02
some AI, you know, just it's it's a way of handing off the reins of who's editing the homepage at that time. And
25:10
like some days they're absolutely amazing. Every once in a while he'll do one on Apple Image Playground just to
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like show how ridiculously bad of touch it is. Once in a while it comes up with something once in a while. But honestly
25:25
it's like it's too much of a pain in the butt to even try. I mean it takes longer, produces be you know way less
25:32
good results. Why why even waste your time with it? I mean, the first time that you use it and it says, you know,
25:37
says, "Oh, I want a a football that looks like uh, you know, Eddie Van
25:43
Halen, you know, sorry, can't do it." It just it absolutely refuses to use anybody any name or any kind of input
25:50
like that. I don't know. Constantly wants you to put in uh a picture of a contact for everything. Like, I want a
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picture of a a pecan pie. Who would you like it to look like? Add a contact. No, I don't want to add a contact because
26:04
that's gross. People aren't peon pies. Well, you just need to download a picture of Eddie Van Halen to your photo library and then then do it from the
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photos app. Yeah, it's too much effort and the results are going to suck anyway, so why would I do it?
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Mhm. Anyway, bother. Well, what did the images that that he conjured today for the um the
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turkey hump day thing which is m mashed up a camel with a turkey which do look like nightmare fuel.
26:27
Uh I don't know. Gemini maybe. Maybe Nano Banana Pro. Who knows? That's the hot new one on the market. Burning up
26:35
the charts. God, that is burning up the That is horrifying.
26:41
You can only make four or five images before you run out of tokens kind of on the free plan anyway. So yeah, that's the problem I've had with
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Google uh you know nano nano banana whatever the first version was. I
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created like five images and it says oh sorry out of credit. Oh great another let's sign up for a subscription so I
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can create stupid AI images. The third generation Apple Watch SE3 back on track
27:04
is on is on sale. It's normally $2.49, but you can get it for only $1.99. That's that's a really good deal, too. I
27:11
mean Oh, yeah. It's a really good watch, isn't it? I gave one of those to um my father-in-law a couple of years ago and not thinking
27:17
that he would take to it. The bloody thing's glued to his wrist. He, you know, he loves it. So, yeah. $200, you have like the It's
27:23
the latest one. It has the S10 chip, the wrist flick, the double tap gestures, the stronger display glass. So, it's a
27:29
good watch. good deal. And uh you know the other favorite deal we've got is uh Air Tags fourpack 65
27:36
bucks. I think that's the lowest we've ever seen it. I mean it that has come up in the past because you know this
27:42
product's been out for a little while but uh that's still an unbeatable deal. I mean and they're great great great
27:47
stocking stuffers. Buy a fourack just toss one in everybody's I think it's a awesome awesome deal.
27:53
It is. Yeah. And they're great. But I finally got to the point now where I bought some of these four packs and we've actually got a couple spare that we're not using. Like I think I've air
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tagged everything I could possibly air tag. Um and there's nothing left to air tag anymore. I tried to get my wife to
28:05
air tag some stuff. She wasn't interested. Like don't you want to put one in your bag? No, she does not interested. Uh I've actually run out of
28:10
things to air tag, I think. Have you actually got to that point? Although actually that's not true cuz we didn't air tag our luggage. We didn't
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air tag uh our pets. We've got two cats that we could air tag. You didn't do your luggage. That's like
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the thing that you need to do both of those things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. True enough. True enough. Yeah. It's better than running into the
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limit where you've air tagged too many things and it doesn't let you add anymore. How many is that limit?
28:33
I think it's like 50, but uh Merlin man was talking about how like he
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he can't air tag any more things. He's he's at the the the peak number of items.
28:44
Crazy. I bought some cheap um Air Tags on uh on Prime Day that were $20 for a
28:49
fourack, but I've got Air Tag clones. You mean clones? Yeah. Sorry. They're cheap. They're knockoffs. They're these diamond
28:56
ones. H Are they radioactive? They might be. Um but they're fully fine
29:03
compliant. Although when you say that, there's actually some shortcomings, aren't there, with with these things. This is what they look like. You get a
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little fourack. Wow. Even with a holder. Exactly. Which Apples doesn't come with.
29:14
Oh, and they even have little uh they're um lanyards. Lanyards. Yeah. I haven't fired these up
29:20
and tried them out yet. Uh, but that that these are like $4 each or $5 each. 20 20 $19 for a pack of
29:27
four, I think it was. Have you uh tried finding anything with them yet or have you not set them up yet? I haven't actually tried I haven't tried
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using them yet. Yeah. Yeah. It' be interesting to see how that works. Chief, you did you buy anything for
29:39
Black Friday? Did you get anything? Did you buy anything? I did buy a couple things, but they weren't Apple related.
29:45
I noticed that uh my my blow dryer, the blow dryer that I use, I I checked and
29:50
that's on sale. It's a for 24% off. Maybe I'll Is it an industrial one? Was it like a
29:55
leaf blower? Yeah. Yeah. Very high power. Gets gets your hair really tall, you know. 18vt rechargeable battery. Robi hair
30:03
haird dryer. Yeah. Uh yeah, man. I mean, I don't know how much you want to talk about this, but I mean,
30:09
we've been spending a lot of time looking at these deals. Uh done a million posts on Cult of Mac. I mean,
30:14
some of these deals are pretty amazing already, and we're not even at Black Friday yet. I mean, whether or not they'll go further, who knows? But uh
30:22
kind of shocking the if you need Apple peripherals, Apple accessories, iPhone
30:27
accessories, we we've got lists of some of the best deals we've found on the website. You can't miss them. Uh
30:33
we're selling a lot of iPads. iPads seem to be the the big thing this year. You know, a lot of the iPads are pretty
30:38
heavily marked down. So yeah, that's a great price. 2.74 for the entry level iPad.
30:43
I mean, I I was tempted to buy one of those myself just just to have a decent iPad. I mean, every iPad I have is
30:48
compromised in some way. If
30:53
well, one one of the questions that like my brother asked me was like, is it worth waiting for Cyber Monday? Because you were telling me, you know, remember
30:59
Lewis, you know, what's what's the meaning of Cyber Monday anymore? I mean, like, so does it even
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is it is it even worth waiting out? Uh, I I mean I don't know. Is it is it
31:09
worth waiting out? I mean, honestly, most of these deals are as good or better than you see other times a year,
31:14
but it's not like sales are unheard of, right? So, Well, these are better deals. No, they've gone to lower prices. I mean like a lot of stuff is record low
31:21
prices. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. But uh you know, will those will those deals disappear
31:27
next Tuesday, the day after Cyber Monday? Who knows? Some things might sell out. I mean, one thing that we saw
31:32
early, we had we had found some deals on like Apple Watch Series 10 that they were, you know, clear sales. Well, guess
31:38
what? They've cleared. They're not available anymore. Uh, and same thing with we we had some Apple Watch SE2
31:45
deals that uh, you know, those were clear deals and now there's nothing left. So, the AirPods Pro 3 were on a had a really
31:51
good deal and then it disappeared but then it came back a day later. So, righting.
31:56
Yeah. Well, you you were saying some of the prices sort of fluctuate in real time, weren't you? Yesterday, Lewis. Oh my god. I was updating a post and by
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the time I went down a list of prices and I went I went back at the beginning and some of them had changed and and not
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only not not only some of them had changed but some of them some you know had gone out of stock. You know, if you
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see something you like I mean I I doubt you're going to get too much better of a deal in any of these things than what what we're seeing right now. Cyber
32:19
Monday I mean I don't know what the reason for Cyber Monday is anymore. I mean, in the old
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days, it was uh you went to a an actual store on Black Friday or even I mean, I
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remember this is crazy. People going at like midnight on Thanksgiving Day. Do you remember that crap? And getting to brawl fist fighter TV.
32:40
Yeah. Trying to grab some, you know, stuffed animal away from a a screaming child. Uh,
32:47
you know, and then after that you No. No, it was not. I've never I never
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went to any He was the child. He's never gotten over it. Right.
32:58
Oh my god. And uh you know, and then after that whole long Thanksgiving
33:03
weekend, then what Cyber Monday was, why it came into being was when online shopping first started happening and and
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people go back to work and spend the whole day shopping online, right? Rather than working. Uh because I mean I I
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don't I'm not exactly sure when Cyber Monday started, but I'm thinking it was back when like most people didn't have
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great home internet connections and it was like Am I making up history right now? Is But is that
33:29
No, I think that's true. Yeah, you're right. It was like, you know, that Black Friday was for physical stores and Cyber Monday was for online shopping.
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Now it's all online shopping really, isn't it? Right. Yeah. And now it's a week I know like they
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don't on Amazon they call it Black Friday week. They don't even call it Black Friday. Black Friday week
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just well it's just like Apple big deal or the big deal day which became big deal days and everything you know all
33:51
these Amazon is all is constant of black Friday. We've lost the original
33:57
the true meaning of Black Friday. Oh god I I don't think I've ever gone
34:03
out on a Black Friday to a mall or anything like that. I remember going one time on like Christmas Eve in Ohio and I
34:11
was just the whole thing was just kind of appalling. I don't know. I felt so
34:17
solid. Just did not seem good. My brother loves it. Him and his family go they go down to Union Square every
34:23
every Black Friday and they go around Macy's and they look at the there's all these adopted animals that are in the windows um or animals up for adoption in
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the windows of Macy's and and uh they make it they have a big Christmas tree in Union Square and and the stores, you know, they they look pretty attractive.
34:36
I mean, the ones that the ones that are open still. It's It's coming back though, finally, isn't it?
34:41
Little bit. Um, I can't imagine anything worse. I think I'd rather be hung, drawn, and quarted than than than go down to the
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the shopping district on a Friday. But my brother loves it. Him and his wife and his kid. They they make a whole day out of it. They even my mom goes along with them.
34:55
And I think they're going to go out to Cordadira like in uh Marin County. They're going to drive up across the Golden Gate Bridge this this uh this
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this Friday to go to the one in Marin, which is even bigger. They got a huge mall there. And there's the Apple store
35:07
as well to visit. Yeah, the big Always looks always looks nice. Marky one.
35:12
Yeah, it's a nice it's a nice nice looking store. Uh and you can hang out in the back of the trees. The Ruth Sour
35:19
sculpture there. There's a water sculpture and um they got some trees and tables. Pleasant. Quite pleasant.
35:24
What they need is a beer garden. Good point. Do you think Tim Cook's going to go for that? I doubt it.
35:31
Probably not. Especially not at Christmas time. Maybe a hot buttered rum. Yeah. Yummy. Delicious. All right. Well,
35:38
that's enough of this. Let's talk about how to give your Mac a makeover uh with custom icons. And this is something that
35:45
I used to Do you remember Resedit back in the day? Oh, yes. This is gone. And I I used to tinker
35:50
around with that, I think, but I haven't I haven't done any custom Mac custom icon makeovers recently. Uh but Luc
35:58
Griffin, why don't you show us how how you do this? Is it worth it actually in the first place? Do you think this is worth it? Did it make a big difference
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for you? Oh, yeah. It's pretty simple. On your Mac, you know, you go to your your home folder, your user folder, and you can
36:08
see all these icers have like special icons on them. Like the applications folder has an applications icon. The the
36:15
desktop has a little picture on that. The downloads has a nice little picture, but you've never been able to like, you
36:21
know, make these yourself. I kind of because I'm a graphic designer, I sort of made my own icons long ago, but now
36:27
this is a fully supported thing that you can do yourself. So, you can click on any of these folders like the the school
36:33
folder that I added to this this area and you can either rightclick on it or you can click the uh sort of more button
36:39
in the finder toolbar. And if you're on Mac OS Tahoe, there's a new function called customize folder and you've got
36:46
like this whole big long set of uh icons that you can add to it. Um, you know,
36:52
you can add a people icons. For some reason, there's like a bunch of like every Apple Watch activity icon has an
36:58
icon that you can add to it. Like if you I don't know who has like a fencing folder on their Mac or uh
37:06
maybe they could use up your school folder. Yeah. Or person snowboarding. Like do you have snowboarding files you need to
37:12
organize? But you know for for school you you know I've graduated even though I might look like I'm still in high
37:18
school. I I actually graduated a long time ago. So I add I add a little graduation cap icon to that folder.
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Um and you know it perfectly embosses it. Makes it look just like all the other ones. It looks really nice. Uh,
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and that's one thing you can do. You can go one step further. You can add an emoji to it if you want. Uh, any emoji
37:37
if you like. And you can also change the color of it. So, you've long been able to tag uh files and folders on the Mac
37:45
with a with a tag color, but uh now in Mac OS Tahoe, when you when you tag it, it it changes the color of the folder
37:51
icon as well. So, you can give it a green color and make it like, you know, stand out visually amongst all the other
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ones. That's probably the most useful thing, at least for me anyway. You know, I like to I recognize icons and things
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by color mostly. Yeah. Yeah. You know, if you've got a, you know, folder for your uh uh legal
38:10
downloads, you can there's there's a there's there's, you know, a few different icons you can do.
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A police whistle, you know, for for for downloads. It feels kind of internety, so I'm trying to look for a little
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icon that screams internet to me. Oh, here you go. Sort of like a globe. it it it evokes the concept of the internet
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and you can give that a big uh I don't know orange color make it stand out both
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of these features I know in Mac OS Tahoe but there's actually even more you can do with this you can customize honestly
38:39
any icon on your Mac as well so what one problem that I've uh long taken issue
38:46
with with the the built-in Mac OS icons is that if you plug in an external drive into your computer uh the the the icon
38:53
that it gives that drive is like a really bright yellow color. And I don't know about you, but yellow isn't really
38:58
my favorite color. So, I always customized it. You can give a uh an external drive a tag, but it doesn't
39:05
actually change the color of the icon. For whatever reason, they haven't gone that far in Mac OS yet, but you can
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still do this yourself. You uh select it, you hit file, get info, and that
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brings up this little panel here. And there's a hidden trick when you do this. You can click on the little picture of
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the icon. It selects it and you can copy it. And what I've done is I then go into
39:30
an image editing app like Pixelmator Pro and then with a little replace color
39:35
function. What color would you like it to be? Pink. Green. Pink.
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Simple as that. We can make it pink. We can copy it. And then you go back to the
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get info uh panel and then you can just paste it. And then suddenly you've made
39:52
your uh your icon pink. You could replace it with any icon. Like you download a little icon online or a picture of your own face or something
39:59
like that. Uh you hit the get info thing, you can just replace the icon and uh you know there you go. You've got a
40:04
fun little icon to set your your external drive apart from your other drives. Uh, so I have a how-to article
40:12
that you can use to like properly follow along when you're at your computer and uh with plenty of screenshots and things
40:17
like that. Uh, that is how you can customize the icons on your Mac. Everyone hates the the Macintosh HD the
40:23
hard drive the the default hard drive icon in in Tahoe. Where can do you think where can you get the old one back if
40:29
you want the old one back? Uh, there's there are a few great resources. One of them is called
40:34
Logoedia. It's like logos.fandom.com. That's where you can find like a bunch of old uh logos for things and you can
40:41
find a lot of old Mac OS icons. Uh there there are a few different websites where you can go to to find like a bunch of
40:46
Mac OS icons like I think one of them is actually called mac osicons.com where you can find alternate icon sets
40:53
to fully customize your Mac if you like. Um yeah, there are a few resources available.
40:59
All right, cool. That's very handy to know, isn't it? People love to do that. I remember the resedit thing that was a huge phenomenon. Like there was a there
41:04
was a massive website that got tons of it there was a you know a massive forum. Lots of people were really into it.
41:11
It's not been a thing. I don't have you seen people like doing you know a lot of customization with their iPhones with
41:16
the home screens because of course this is something you can do on iOS. Do you see that? I I don't I don't think I've seen it. I don't think I know anyone
41:22
who's actually customized. I know a lot of people who use Widget Kit, the uh the popular app by, you know, David Smith
41:29
and Stephen Hackit, uh to to customize their home screens and make them like look nice and interesting and cool and
41:35
more aesthetic. But yeah, you can go the next level and fully customize the icons on your iPhone as well. Uh that's that's
41:42
pretty popular. Well, I haven't actually seen it in the wild is what I'm saying. I haven't seen anyone who's who's done it. I don't know how popular it is. I think it's popular
41:49
with certain section of the Apple community. Yeah. Yeah.
41:54
a certain class of enthusiasts. Yeah. Right. Yeah. All right. Well, let's talk about this uh this this this
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monitor that you got to review. It's a VSic VP 2788 5K display.
42:06
Really rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Rolls off the tongue. Yeah. So, this is the this is the VSic
42:12
display. Um there have been a number of these new like 5K displays matching the specs of Apple's Studio Display that
42:18
have all come out really in the last year. It's a pretty uh new exciting line of products that are that are now out.
42:23
You know, for a long time, Apple was the only maker of retina desktopsized displays. But, you know, now we've got
42:30
competition from Asus, Ben Q, and the VSonic one is, I think, the uh the the
42:35
third best entry in this new class of devices. Um, so if you're watching on
42:40
YouTube, I'll be running some beautiful Apple screen savers so you get an idea of uh how it looks like. Uh, so then I I
42:49
Yeah, it looks fantastic. I I copied my notes onto my Apple Newton that I'll be reading from.
42:54
Like a Newton. Oh my god. 27 inch 5K Retina display just like the
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studio display. Resolution of 5120 by 2880. Uh, you know, just like the studio
43:05
display, just like the other two competitors that I mentioned. What sets this one apart in specs though is that
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it has a higher refresh rate. All the other ones are 60 Hz. Uh this one is slightly higher at 75 Hz, which isn't
43:18
like bigger enough to make it super noticeable. Like it's not like 90 or 120, but it is a little nicer. Uh unlike
43:24
the studio display, you know, it it's adjustable even on the entry level model. So, you know, it raises, lowers,
43:31
you know, rotates left and right, tilts, rotates, you know, to 90 degrees if you
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want. It has the same color space. like none of these are HDR, but it's got, you know, 100% of the sRGB color space. Um,
43:45
if you care about such things, if you're a graphic designer, the colors are pretty nice, nice and bright and vivid to my eye. Um, unlike the studio
43:53
display, you know, and also like the other third party monitors, it's not aluminum. It's all dark plastic. One of
43:59
the things that I really didn't like about the Asus ProArt 5K display is how cheap the plastic body felt. And I don't
44:06
feel that with this at all. You know, if I my my test that I always give is I grab it on either side and sort of
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squeeze it and flex it and listen for any horrible plastic creaking noises.
44:18
This one is pretty solid. It's not cheap plastic. It's premium plastic. Oh yeah. Yeah. Built good build quality.
44:25
It feels substantial and thick. Nothing bad there. Feel like it was flexing pretty well. A little bit, but you know the Asus one,
44:31
trust me, it was a lot worse. Yeah. Uh it also I can't remember the last time I flexed a monitor. So,
44:37
I'm afraid to Mhm. Well, I was sent this, so it it's
44:42
it's it's my it's my journalistic duty, right? Uh, what sets this one apart? It keeps
44:49
playing the same screen saver over and over again. Enjoy this nice loop of this blue ocean. It's a nice screen saver.
44:55
It is. Yeah. Uh, what sets this display apart is that it's a full Thunderbolt 4 dock. So, you don't just have like, you
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know, two or three USB ports. We have uh two USBA ports, two USBC ports, two
45:08
Thunderbolt 4 ports. Uh one of them can charge your laptop at 100 watts, so you
45:13
can still get uh you know, it's the one plug you can plug into your MacBook Pro and have it charge and run all the ports
45:19
off of it. And it's also like a pass through port, so you can have high-speed external storage plugged into the display that
45:26
also runs to your computer. Um, the one thing I don't like about it is that the ports aren't in a very good
45:32
spot. Uh, like a lot of other uh sort of cheap displays, they're angled down
45:38
towards the surface of the desk. All of Apple's displays have the ports coming like straight out of the back where they're a little easier to access. But,
45:45
you know, really this is designed to be like a dock. So, you know, you plug everything you need to into the display and then you're not supposed to be
45:51
fiddling with it day after day. But, um, that's really I have to that seems kind of great though. You set
45:56
it up once, right? And then you just plug your MacBook in when you come home. Yeah. Yeah. It's the one thing you plug in and then you've got everything there.
46:03
Um, every display has the uh the one thing that you need to change in it. Uh,
46:09
the the one thing you need to change in this is that it automatically shuts off after um a really short period of time.
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Like when it goes into sleep mode, it like fully turns off the display. So, you can't just like mash a button on
46:22
your keyboard and have it come back on. you need to go into the main menu settings, set the auto power off and
46:28
auto sleep thing to basically turn off so that it actually comes on instantly.
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But once you do that, you know, absolutely no problems with it. The controls are pretty intuitive for all
46:38
the settings. Like one button is for the power, one button is like a four directional uh jog wheel that you can
46:47
click in either direction to pretty intuitively navigate the settings, you know. Alex, is it intuitive? Cuz those things
46:54
can be horrible, can't they? They can be. This one better than normal. This one This one's pretty easy to use,
46:59
honestly. Cool. It looks like while I'm fiddling with it, I accidentally changed the display mode, but
47:08
I messed it up. When I'm not focused on doing the review simultaneously, I can I can fix that. It
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has a pictureand picture mode and a sidebyside mode if you want to do, you
47:19
know, two computers plugged into the same monitor simultaneously for some reason. But it's a little fiddly to set
47:24
up, so I don't really see myself using that. But you can if you want to if you have two Macs or a Mac and a PC or a
47:31
personal computer and a work computer. Yeah, that could be useful. It has two built-in 5 watt speakers that
47:38
aren't very good, but are still the best built-in display speakers I've heard.
47:43
They're they're really loud, but they have absolutely no bass whatsoever. But, you know, they'll they'll do in a pinch if you don't want to wear your
47:49
headphones. Um, of course, compared to the studio display, no built-in microphone, no built-in camera, but
47:56
honestly, I use my iPhone with camo anyways, so I don't really that's not
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something that I miss. In terms of pricing, it's sort of in the middle of the road of all the other, you know,
48:07
third party displays of its class. The ASUS ProArt display is normally $8.49
48:12
and now I think it's like $799, but, you know, it's a little cheap. The Ben Q
48:18
display is around $1,200. This one's sort of dead set in the middle of 950. Uh,
48:24
and compared to the studio display of $1,600, it's a pretty good alternative in my
48:29
opinion. I think I think this is the one that uh I would recommend the most.
48:35
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and under a thousand. I wonder if it's on sale for Black Friday. I checked and it is not.
48:42
Not yet. Not yet. Yeah. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Right. Friday or Cyber Monday. It looks like a really
48:49
nice monitor. These are beautiful monitors, aren't they? These 5K screens. And of course, you know, they're getting a lot more affordable these days, aren't
48:54
they? Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're they're coming down to price. It makes you think that maybe Oh god, I'm really I'm really blown out, aren't I? This is very
49:00
bright. Um, you know, now that you have all these similar 5K displays for like twothirds
49:08
the price, it makes me wonder if like Apple's going to revise the studio display to add more features like maybe promotion or HDR at some point. But for
49:16
the time being, if you just want 5K resolution, 27 inch size, like it's the one and only monitor that I feel I
49:21
really need, then uh you can get it at much less than uh Apple's price.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Well, competition always good. Mhm. All right. Well, I think that's about all the codecast we have for you this
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week. Let's wrap it up right there. Uh if you want to uh more, follow Lewis on Twitter at Lewis Wallace. Griffin is on
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com. So, please send us a a a question or a link.
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Well, it is Thanksgiving. We do need your questions. Please send
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us questions for next week's show. Yeah, please send us questions for next week's show. We didn't have any this week, but maybe we can Thanksgiving,
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we'll we'll give you when you're at home with uh your parents' computers and stuff like that, maybe it'll it'll
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inspire you to take answer some questions. Mhm. Um, so that's been the cult. The best Apple hourong conversation you're going
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to hear all week long. The best
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I don't cut out for hosting a podcast.
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Should we just start all that again? Oh, keep going. The whole show's a disaster. You going to start with the hello this
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time with this time with some enthusiasm? Yeah, why the not? Um, all right. All right, I
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think that just about wraps it up. That's all the cold cast we have for you this week. Thanks very much for listening and we'll see you guys next time.
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Rapid fire. Fine. You know, you can write your own outro script if you want.
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Uh, I don't know why it trigs me up. It's so strange. Um, pre-record it and have like a little uh,
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you know, game show outro jingle going.
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Yeah, that's not a bad idea. Maybe we should just do one the same one every week. which is basically what it is anyway.
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