- 1 hour 56 minutes689: The Positive Effect of Enthusiasm
- Pre-show: Mythos
- Follow-up:
- ATP Store
- Yes, it happened again.
- The ATP Neo Silver made it!
- UPenn is an Ivy
- Gurman’s transition coverage
- The Ability to be Hotter
- ATP Store
- Backblaze is no longer backing up cloud storage
- Ask ATP:
- What generation is John’s Accord? What’s the plan for replacement? (via Brian Ashe)
- Which Apple CEO will 💩-can the Mac? (via Jason)
- How often should Macs be restarted? (via Paul Franz)
- Post-show: Pedometer++ version 8.0
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Should Apple MacBook Neo all the things?
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30 April 2026, 9:10 pm - 2 hours 6 minutes688: A Company Man
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- GL.iNet KVM security issues?
- MacBook Neo cores 🤝 BMW heated seats? (via Edward Munn)
- Joe Lion waxes poetic about RAM on Apple Silicon
- More component delays
- It’s Ternus time
- Post-show: John quizzes Marco & Casey
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Media consumption & the limits of human perception
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21 April 2026, 4:40 pm - 1 hour 55 minutes687: You Can Bend This Line
- Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
- Follow-up:
- Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
- The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
- Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
- Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
- Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
- See also:
- Ads are coming to Apple Maps
- AI-generated code & copyright
- Ask ATP:
- Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
- Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
- Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
- What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
- Bandwidth comparisons
- Thunderbolt 5
- 80 Gbit/s symmetric
- 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
- SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
- 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
- 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
- PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
- 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
- 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
- …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
- 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
- Thunderbolt 5
- Internal vs. external SSD
- 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
- OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
- OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
- PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
- Kickstarter (ended November 2024)
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16 April 2026, 6:26 pm - 2 hours 2 minutes686: Write Two Letters
- Pre-show: The new Ceramic Shield 2 in the iPhone 17 Pro is the real deal
- 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- Stephen Robles
- Casey’s snarky toot
- Tangentially related: John’s Google One price drop
- John’s upgrade cycle (via Ryan Himmelwright)
- How much hotter can a Mac get?
- Apple’s implementation of Passkeys (via Ben Frearson)
- Apple subsidiary fined over $500k for breaching Russian sanctions
- RetinaDisplays.com
- CIE 1931 & Apple’s 2026 CMFs
- They’re more than just a monitor calibration standard (via Eric Portis)
- The GOAT, Bartosz Ciechanowski
- CIE updates from 2015
- On Apple’s CMF
- Long Island and “mainland”
- Studio Display XDR price drop‽ 😱
- The Greatest Podcast Ad Campaign of All Time
- Marco’s letter to John Ternus
- Ask ATP:
- How does Apple Silicon RAM work, anyway? (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
- Post-show: Marco Garmin-watch update
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Claude Code leak & how Claude “actually works”
- Regex to detect user anger
- “Undercover mode” (via Aral Balkan)
- Future plans
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9 April 2026, 7:53 pm - 2 hours 15 minutes685: The Ability to Be Hotter
- Pre-show:
- Happy independence day, John!
- The Great Saunter
- The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
- 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons
- Follow-up:
- Overcast transcripts
- MacBook Neo
- Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch
- New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)
- Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel
- MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks
- “NFW”, says Henry
- “This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari
- “Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple
- Ubiquiti
- What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?
- “Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO
- Some shadiness from January
- 🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦
- Ask ATP:
- Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)
- How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)
- Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands
- Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update
- 10 February: Delayed to 2027
- 20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?
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1 April 2026, 1:16 pm - Pre-show:
- 1 hour 55 minutes684: It’s Not What Young People Do
- Follow-up:
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- Marco had never seen inside a datacenter
- What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)
- What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)
- Monitoring & control interface
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)
- Mac fleet management advice
- AirPods Max popularity in New York
- Overcast & Transcriptions
- WWDC 2026 Announced
- Ask ATP
- What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)
- Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)
- Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)
- Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology
- Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS
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26 March 2026, 9:35 pm - Follow-up:
- 2 hours 21 minutes683: I Didn’t Want to Melt My Rug
- Follow-up:
- You’re welcome, world
- Formula 1
- A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season
- Cameras
- Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby)
- Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line)
- The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)
- On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)
- Rosetta
- A deep dive from Colin McKellar
- Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)
- iPhone 17e teardown
- MacBook Neo
- Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
- Apple Platform Security Guide
- On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)
- CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)
- SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)
- John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions
- Teardowns
- Tech Re-Nu
- iFixIt
- Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators
- AirPods Max 2
- Overcast beta now has transcripts!
- Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass
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19 March 2026, 5:34 pm - Follow-up:
- 2 hours 16 minutes682: Medium Core
- Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Follow-up:
- An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
- MacBook Neo
- John’s theory about color & clamshells
- The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
- Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
- MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
- SSD speeds (via The Verge)
- The logo
- iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
- Jason’s review
- Dave2D’s review
- Teardown
- Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
- New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)
- H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
- Quinn’s review
- 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
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- Andrew Cunningham at Ars
- L2 cache
- Super: 16 MB
- Performance: 8 MB
- Efficiency: 6MB
- Minimum clock speed:
- Super: 1,308 MHz
- Performance: 1,344 MHz
- Efficiency: 972 MHz
- L2 cache
- Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
- UFO Test
- MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
- Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)
- Superwide viewing angle
- Timing controller (TCON)
- Calibration
- Display optimization modes
- Formula 1 news
- Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)
- Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)
- 2026 season preview
- F1TV vs. Apple TV
- Romain Grosjean’s
- Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display
- Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS
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12 March 2026, 11:15 pm - 2 hours 46 minutes681: The Price of Your Nightmares
- Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- Million Dollar Homepage
- 2013 BMW M5 (PDF)
- 2014 Honda Accord (PDF)
- M4 iPad Air
- iPhone 17e
- New displays (‼️)
- Studio Display 2
- Studio Display XDR
- M5 MacBook Air
- M5 Pro & M5 Max
- M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros
- If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper
- MacBook Neo
- Post-show: John had a post break containment
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5 March 2026, 11:55 pm - Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet
- 2 hours 34 minutes680: A Lot of Holes in That Cheese
- Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow
blowswoes - Follow-up:
- Casey got the CableCARD email 😭
- YoLink alternatives (via Joe)
- House batteries & V2H/V2L (via Russel Prouse)
- On the value of M𝑥 Pro processors (via Rick Baumhauer)
- Tahoe window resizing workaround (via Nathan Manceaux-Panot)
- defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8
- defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize
- macOS document model
- …was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7
- …and noted in the beginning of the Mac OS X 10.8 review
- Final Cut Pro X does auto-save (via Ian Robinson)
- Technical details (via Videoalex)
- Microsoft Office 365 also auto-saves onto OneDrive in Windows (via Éric)
- Saving files in Xcode (via Alex Kent)
- Returning to Save As… (via Eric deRuiter)
- System Settings
- Desktop & Dock → disable Close windows when quitting an application
- Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts create an entry under All Applications for Save As… (using an ellipsis by typing ⌥ ;) and assign it to ⌘⇧S
- System Settings
- Notepad++ (via Emily Campbell)
- Alternative to Due (via Patrick Dumontel)
- Apple March 4 “experience”
- Apple to manufacture some Mac minis in the US
- Ask ATP:
- What are our current home & lock screens? (via Sagar Patel)
- What’s our current desktop headphone setup? (via ziplyne)
- Overtime on ATP #675
- Casey
- AirPods Pro 3
- Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 32Ω
- Desktop speakers
- John:
- Marco:
- Podcasting
- Beyerdynamic DT775 Pro 250Ω
- Beyerdynamic EDT1770D Earpads
- Schiit Jotunheim 2 (an older model; current is Jotunheim 3)
- Music
- Speakers
- KEF Q150 / LSX II & KC62
- Amp for Q150: Fosi Audio BT30D
- Podcasting
- Post-show: Casey’s driven more cars
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Skill shortages, Apple Silicon, and AI
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27 February 2026, 1:08 am - Pre-show: Marco’s Watch and snow
- 2 hours 49 seconds679: An Adversarial Relationship With Myself
- Pre-show:
- Marco beach… and app… cleanup results
- We’re recording ✨from the future✨.
- Follow-up:
- Should Casey look at a used Lucid Air for ~$50k?
- Marco’s
defectionmove to Chrome (via Sarvagnan) - Window resizing in Tahoe (via Jeff Johnson)
- AirTag 2 & speaker tampering
- Cloudflare Open Access (via George Black)
- Fastmail 🤝🏻 Perl
- Another Apple purchase migration warning (via Nick)
- YouTube is on visionOS (App Store link)
- Studio Display 2 to be… 90Hz? 🤨
- New devices not on the latest-and-greatest TSMC process?
- Where are you, M5 Pro MacBook Pro?
- Ask ATP:
- What kind of battery backup should one use? (via Allen Shull)
- Why do we think Ternus is a good idea as CEO? (via Kevin B.)
- What’s the deal with Save As…, Duplicate, etc? (via Carl Walther)
- The new document model was actually introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in 2011
- More from John’s Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review in in 2012
- Post-show: Casey’s Status Board
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apparently everyone is stealing TV
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16 February 2026, 5:04 pm - Pre-show:
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