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This week on MPU, David and I catch up with Austin Mann to talk about his work and his annual iPhone camera reviews, including what sets the iPhone 12 Pro Max apart from Apple’s other new phones.

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This has made my Friday:

via Waxy

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Joshua Stein has made a very specific utility:

StuffIt is the de-facto standard for file archiving and compression on Mac OS before OS X. Most old Macintosh software is preserved in StuffIt format, but a breaking change in StuffIt 5 makes archives created in this version unreadable in older versions of StuffIt. Since StuffIt 3.5 is the last version that works on System 6, many archives cannot be opened on compact Macs running System 6.

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Charles Fishman, writing at The Atlantic:

Dry ice often helps save Thanksgiving, even if the beneficiaries of its special magic may not notice. But this winter, it will help save the world from the coronavirus pandemic. A senior salesperson for Noble, which routinely supplies the pharmaceutical industry, had just taken a call from an official with the state of New York, assessing how much dry ice Noble might be able to supply, on short notice, in order to get the first coronavirus vaccine out to every corner of the state once it is approved.

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This time on Connected:

There’s a lot of follow-up this week, then conversations about company retreats, Mac OS 9, password management, MagSafe and the Mac App Store. Then, Federico talks through his new email system. Myke and Stephen have feelings about it.

On Connected Pro, we had a discussion of my most perfect job and the end of Slack.

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Happy Thanksgiving. Stay safe.

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Apple Support:

Starting with certain models introduced in late 2020, Apple began the transition from Intel processors to Apple silicon in Mac computers.

On Mac computers with Apple silicon, About This Mac shows an item labeled Chip, followed by the name of the chip.

On Mac computers with an Intel processor, About This Mac shows an item labeled Processor, followed by the name of an Intel processor. A Mac with an Intel processor is also known as an Intel-based Mac.

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This week on Mac Power Users:

macOS Big Sur brings with it a new design and updated features. This week, Stephen and David wade in to macOS 11, before giving their impressions of the M1-powered MacBook Air.

It was a lot of fun to dive deep into Big Sur and review it with David. It is quite the release.

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It’s that time of year, so I’m happy to present the 512 Pixels Holiday Gift Guide for People Like Me:

• Vintage Dogcow Watch: Currently $425 on eBay
• Apple III: Currently $699 on eBay
• Relay FM “Now Playing” Shirt: $30
• “I Want to Believe in RSS” Enamel Pin: $11.55 on the Diesel Sweeties Store
• Anything on Draplin’s website
• Lisa Introduction VHS Tape - $199.95 on The Missing Bite
• NeXT Cube and Megapixel Monitor: Currently $2,400 on eBay
• IBM PCjr to use as a boat anchor: Currently $256 on eBay

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Craig Federighi, in an interview with Ars Technica, speaking about Windows on Apple Silicon Macs:

We have the core technologies for them to do that, to run their ARM version of Windows, which in turn of course supports x86 user mode applications. But that’s a decision Microsoft has to make, to bring to license that technology for users to run on these Macs. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it.

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To go with my 5K renders of default Mac OS X macOS wallpapers, I’ve reworked Mac OS 9’s wallpapers. Some of them are wild:

I pulled the originals out of an OS 9 installer then used Pixelmator Pro’s ML Super Resolution tool, running on a new M1 MacBook Air … which gave my 2019 Mac Pro a run for its money rendering these.

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This week’s Connected is jam-packed:

Stephen and Myke talk about their HomePod minis and M1 Macs, and Federico explains what’s going on with iOS 14.3 and App Store revenue changes. Merri Hackett joins Federico and Myke to talk about her experience with the iPhone 12 mini, and they decide they’d rather Stephen just didn’t come back.

On Connected Pro, Myke isn’t Fleeting and Stephen had an accident. Then, later, a title is born and podcasting gear is configured.

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