I’ve long been a fan of the so-called “Moon Watches,” but owning one is way, way beyond my means. Looks like Swatch is trying to change that with a new, limited-run set of watches.
I don’t have a Swatch store anywhere near me, so hopefully a Mercury or Moon edition shows up on eBay at a reasonable price at some point in the future.
I love how good looking the inside of this machine is — even if no one will ever see it. The ports are mostly modular, meaning repairs to them shouldn’t require a full logicboard swap.
Myke has questions about the Mac Studio, Federico was right about Workflow and Stephen has some suggestions for the Bill of Rickies.
On Connected Pro, the longer and ad-free version of the show, we talked about dreams and bassoons.
This week, we’ve got another Q&A-style support document:
What can cause the below symptoms?
When the computer and monitor are powered on, a green an area on bottom left of the monitor changes colors depending on what is displayed on screen. Another less intense area is directly in the center of the screen. Both distortions are approximately one inch high and 3.5 to 4 inches wide.
The display has been moved in the house and checked for any environmental factors but this didn’t change anything. The monitor was left off for over 24 hours but the discolored areas didn’t change.
I just love this piece by Jason Snell.
Last week, a story went around that at least some Mac Studio models come with unpopulated slots for SSD modules. This led to speculation that the machine could be upgraded with more storage.
I asked around about this, and came to the conclusion that these slots are populated on higher-end models with 8TB of storage, and maybe even the 4TB option. SKUs with less storage still have the slots, just without any modules in them.
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This week’s Mac Power Users is a feedback episode. On it, David and I celebrate the Mac Studio and Studio Display before revisiting the Stream Deck, Preview, Day One and more.
Daniel Howley, writing at Yahoo Finance:
Apple says a Mac Studio with an M1 Ultra will outperform a Windows PC outfitted with an Intel Core i9 desktop chip and Nvidia’s formidable RTX 3090 graphics card, while consuming less overall power.
That not only means the Mac Studio will run at lower temperatures than competing PCs, but it will also maintain peak performance longer than its PC counterparts.
The M1 Ultra seems incredibly impressive, but then Howley goes on to quote Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush:
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Apple has announced updates to the iPad Air and several iPhones, then launched an entirely new desktop Mac with an accompanying display. As a result, a new Keynote Chairman must be named.
Quite a few people noticed an oddity on the Mac Studio tech specs page:
Turns out, the weight difference between the two specifications of the Mac Studio comes down to cooling. In a statement to The Verge, Apple said:
They [both models] have the same 370W power supply. The additional weight is due to M1 Ultra having a larger copper thermal module, where as M1 Max has an aluminum heatsink.