After nearly three weeks and 15,000 votes, you have chosen your favorite Mac:
Coming in with 51.3% of the votes placed in the final round, the Power Mac G4 Cube has won, narrowly defeating the 2012-2015 Retina MacBook Pro.
Here is what the final, full bracket looks like:
Cory Hixson was kind enough to have me on his podcast, Talking to the Internet. We discussed the founding of 512 Pixels, Relay FM and a whole lot more.
Mac Madness is down to the final two machines, and Myke explains why it is all Stephen’s fault. Then, Federico takes everyone on a tour of high-resolution audio apps for the iPhone and iPad … which are all wild. Lastly, we check the temperature of the room on Apple’s Dark Sky acquisition.
I hope you enjoy this episode. It’s one for the books, I think. My thanks to our sponsors for making it possible:
…and John Legere has left the building.
We should get right to it. After nearly 12,000 total votes, we have arrived at the finals of Mac Madness, and it’s the G4 Cube against the 2012-2015 Retina MacBook Pro:
I really thought the black MacBook was going to edge out the Cube, but as you can tell, it fell a little shy in the Semifinals:
2012-2015 Retina MBP — 63.2%
Clamshell iBook G3 — 36.8%
G4 Cube — 53.3%
Today we have some important and exciting news to share: Dark Sky has joined Apple.
Our goal has always been to provide the world with the best weather information possible, to help as many people as we can stay dry and safe, and to do so in a way that respects your privacy.
There is no better place to accomplish these goals than at Apple. We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to reach far more people, with far more impact, than we ever could alone.
This software enables playback of ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ video files in compatible applications on Windows systems.
It works with beta versions of the following software:
Apple working to get its codec better supported across the industry is a smart move. Now we have to see how it performs. I suspect we’ll see real-world demos of this sooner rather than later.
When you print, your printer icon appears in the Dock. The icon may have a colored badge that indicates its status.
Red badge: The printer is printing. The badge shows the number of print jobs in the printer queue.
Green badge with a pause symbol: The printer is paused. If you print to it, you’re asked whether to resume printing or queue the print job to print later. If you queue the print job, your document waits in the queue until you resume printing. You might want to do this if you aren’t currently connected to the printer.
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Rene Ritchie is joining the indie ranks:
Some personal news:
After 11 glorious years at iMore, I’ve chosen to leave and go indie so I can pursue some personal projects.
Here’s the first. Please take a moment to subscribe and share. It would mean a lot. ???? https://t.co/0etyCNcUaf pic.twitter.com/r2EIdgj6Xi
— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) March 30, 2020
He’s launching a new channel (as the old one is part of the iMore brand) and I’ve already subscribed.
My thanks to Micro.blog for sponsoring 512 Pixels this week. With it, you start a new blog or migrate an existing blog with your own domain name. It’s the blogging platform you’ll actually use.