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This week on a very busy episode of Connected:

There’s a new MacBook Pro in town, bringing with it an updated design and a new keyboard, and Apple’s rumored AR glasses make everyone feel old. Myke is crowned the Popsocket Enthusiast, Stephen gets an email and Federico explains Toolbox Pro.

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Morrison did a great job here … and recorded it with the new MacBook Pro’s built-in microphones:

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I’ve gotten a couple questions about the new 16-inch MacBook Pro and the LG UltraFine 5K display. The display can provide 87 watts of power, but the notebook comes with a 96 watt adaptor. Turns out, Apple has added this to the display’s product page:

This display provides host charging power to your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. For optimal performance on the 16-inch MacBook Pro, connect to power using the MacBook Pro’s 96W adapter.

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This morning, Apple took the wraps off a new 16-inch MacBook Pro.

This new notebook is not a radical departure from the MacBook Pro we’ve known for the last three years, but Apple has made some changes that should make using the premiere mobile Mac a lot nicer. Here’s a bit from that press release:

The all-new MacBook Pro features a brilliant 16-inch Retina Display, the latest 8-core processors, up to 64GB of memory, next-generation graphics with up to 8GB of VRAM and a new advanced thermal design, making it the most powerful MacBook Pro ever.

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Sam Byford at The Verge:

Apple will start selling its redesigned Mac Pro in December, the company tells The Verge. The pro-focused, made-in-the-USA computer was announced in June with a projected release date of “fall;” Bloomberg reported yesterday that it would be available next month.

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This week on Mac Power Users:

Stephen and David are joined by Brent Simmons, who works in marketing at The Omni Group. They talk about the tools of the trade, including social media and content creation before shifting gears to discuss Brent’s RSS reader, NetNewsWire and where the Mac could be heading.

I really enjoyed talking with Brent. He has a unique perspective on the Mac, as someone who has developed for it for a long time.

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From Apple’s Manuals website:

Follow the instructions in this sheet carefully. Failure to follow these instructions could damage your equipment and void its warranty.

I love me some Titanium PowerBook.

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A great video about a weird chapter in Apple history:

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Brent Simmons:

It started like this: at the time I was working at UserLand Software on a blogging app called Manila, and this was my own personal Manila blog. It’s gone through a few other engines since then. (These days it’s rendered — as a static site — by some Ruby scripts.)

It‘s tempting to think that The Thing of my career has been NetNewsWire. And that’s kinda true. But the thing I’ve done the longest, love the most, and am most proud of is this blog.

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When Apple announced that its Reminders application was receiving a much-needed overhaul this year with iOS 13 and macOS Catalina, I was excited. I think Apple has done an amazing job at modernizing the Notes app, and I was hopeful Reminders would become an equally useful application across Apple’s platforms.

I’ve tried just about ever task manager out there: OmniFocus, Things, Remember the Milk, 2Do, TickTick and more. I usually end up back in Todoist for its reliable sync, coupled with its lightning-fast native language processing for inputting tasks. Many applications require too many clicks or taps to create a new task within a given project, with a due date.

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This week on a very special episode:

Federico is joined by a better Hackett to talk about Apple’s range of earbuds, then Stephen butts in to discuss Adobe’s big week and what Apple should do in the wake of iOS 13 and macOS Catalina’s buggy releases. Then, they fire the spoiler horn and review “The Morning Show” and “For All Mankind.”

Big thanks to Merri for stepping in and helping us out this week, and to our sponsors:

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