Pre-show: All John’s apes gone
Follow-up:
Casey has found yet new ways to make himself miserable
Sunday Ticket updates
On sale!
It was free yesterday… kind of
TV Everywhere
An alternative approach
DAZN
NFL Replay
Tailscale and Exit Nodes
Concert for One: Raye
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
NPR Tiny Desk Concert: Raye
Using large external drives with macOS
Photos library
An anecdote from Marc Wickens
Booting from an external
Downloading large App Store apps
App Store → Settings
Competition for the wall-mounted HomePad (via Alesh Houdek)
Apple Intelligence notification summaries
Steve Troughton-Smith
Chris Hancock
DOJ says Google must sell Chrome
Google’s spin response
Ben Thompson’s take
Gurman on a “more conversational Siri”
#askatp:
Can one push computation onto the performance cores? (via Andrew Hodgson)
iStat Menus
Why are apps getting so big? (via James Wilby)
Post-show: Thanksgiving logistics
Members-only ATP Overtime: Services on macOS
Łukasz Rutkowski’s toot in Sean Heber’s thread
Services on macOS
Making a system-wide service
ThisService (now defunct)
Github
In Automator
Save your .workflow files in ~/Library/Services/
To assign a keyboard shortcut:
System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts (button) → Services (sidebar) → Text (list section)
FastScripts
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2:04:58
614: Don't Puke for the Show
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
The Weeknd: Open Hearts
Link to the video itself
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Lensrentals: Vision Pro
M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)
Quinn’s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini
Apple storage pricing
Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro
Apple vs. market SSD prices
Retailers are also hamstrung
M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology
Graphs
Alternative drag cancellation options
iOS Inactivity Reboot
Wes Davis at The Verge
404 Media (Paywalled)
Demo video
Reverse engineering
#askatp:
How is an M4 Ultra expected to outperform PC GPUs? (via Ammar)
Should macOS-as-a-file-server people worry about bitrot? (via Yannic Boysen)
APFS in Detail: Data Integrity
Post-show: Casey’s adventures in remote television
Channels
Beelink N95 Mini S
HDHomeRun Connect
DTV Reception Maps
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is complaining about Apple’s prices useful? Do we have any effect?
Progressive vs. regressive taxation
(Apple is the former)
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1:57:22
613: Dress for the Chip You Want
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Follow-up:
Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
“Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
Mac mini
“Modular” storage
Quinn’s teardown
dosdude1 demonstrates an upgrade
Apple 8TB SSD Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro
Differences between M4 and M4 Pro SSDs
Benchmarks
M4 512 GB
M4 Pro 512 GB
iFixit Teardown
Apple’s replacement guide
Other tidbits
Heatsink differences
256 GB = 2× 128 GB
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
#askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)
Thunderbolt performance limits
Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
iPhone Pro Clock speeds
Ken Case’s observation
Apple’s smart home ambitions
#askatp:
Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
Alfred
Rocket
SwitchGlass
Front and Center
Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
Marco’s OWC drive enclosure
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
Patrick’s original question
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1:59:37
612: Screen on Face
Pre-show: Politics later.
#195: The Show Must Go On (Overcast link)
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Follow-up:
Mac mini
Headphone jack placement
Quinn’s observation
Cruical 32GB DIMM
Samsung SSD
iMac
Apple removes color-matched pointing devices option
M4 vs. M4 Pro/Max SSD limits
M4 Pro & M4 Max performance
Walmart still sells a Mac with 8GB RAM
Apple’s new USB-C Accessories require Sequoia
Apple’s $69 Thunderbolt 5 cable (via Daniel Luz)
There exists at least one dock with 10GbE (via Daniel Nelson)
iFixIt’s iPad Mini (A17 Pro) teardown
AppleTV gaming (via killvore)
Keyboard Cleaning & MacBook Booting
CleanupBuddy by Gui Rambo
Alternative incantation from Daniel Pieper
Power the machine off
Left ⌃ and ⌘ as well as Right ⇧ for 7 seconds
While still holding, hold the power button for 7 seconds
This is not an SMC reset, but it’s close.
Only lasts until the next boot 😑
Apple buys Pixelmator
Apple buys stake in Globalstar
Press release
Globalstar
Vision Pro v2 changes?
Ming-Chi Quo
Mark Gurman
Post-show: Group therapy
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple Intelligence experiences
Photo cleanup shoot-out by Joe Rosensteel
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2:15:33
611: RAM Christmas
Pre-show: Marco did his homework! (😱)
Submerged
Sleep No More
Americans, please vote for Harris/Walz.
Please don’t elect a racist with facist goals
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles
No, Kamala isn’t perfect, but she’s far better.
I Will Vote
vote.gov
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October Macs
Monday: iMac
Announcement video
The RAM drought is over!
120Hz display‽
The turtle remains harpooned
Magic Keyboard with lock key‽ 🤨
Prior art
Relocated Fn key?
Quinn’s video
Tuesday: Mac mini
Announcement video
Thunderbolt 5 vs. Thunderbolt 4
Apple Thunderbolt 5 Pro Cable
Wednesday: MacBook Pros
Announcement video
Post-show: Marco bought something. Because of course he did.
Members-only ATP Overtime: Security research on Private Cloud Compute
Odd licensing
License
Mike Hearn’s discoveries
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