Apple's Decision Making: RAM in MacBook Air and Cellular Features in Mac

• Pre-show: Marco’s fans
  • Peltier plate
  • Marco’s mount
    • The alternative stronger cooler
  • Cooler only, without charging
• Follow-up:
  • Snapdragon X actually runs at 45 TOPS (via sciwizam)
  • Justin Long shills for Qualcomm
    • Commercial
    • Snapdragon Computex Keynote
    • Previously, for Intel
    • Apple’s M1 ad with John Hodgman (“PC”)
    • Gruber’s take
    • Jason on macOS permissions dialogs
  • Windows Recall is a security “disaster”
    • Steal everything in two lines of code
  • AMD enters the AI chat
  • Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs
  • When Apple said “The M2 iPad Air has 10 GPU cores” they really meant “9 GPU cores”
    • Performance wasn’t affected though
  • How LLMs learn
    • Retrieval-augmented generation (via Adeiko)
      • Problems with RAG
      • Research paper
    • On ∞ context (via Stephen Tierney)
      • Research paper
• WWDC Preview
  • Read my lips: no new hardware
  • Developer app immersive environment
  • OpenAI deal
  • XCTest
  • Fluent Assertions
• Ask ATP:
  • Any chance the expected late-2024 M4 MacBook Pro gets Thunderbolt 5? (via James)
  • Any chance we’ll get 16GB RAM in the eventual M4 MacBook Air? (via David Martin)
  • Could the lack of cellular Mac be because there’s no Apple modem? (via Winnie Lewis)
• Post-show Neutral: Kid cars, revisited
  • ATP Neutral: Car shopping
    • Casey’s Wireless CarPlay adapter
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s in-car dreams are a bit of a 🎢
  • Mercedes says “nothx”
    • Decoder episode
  • Polestar says “maybes”
    • Decoder episode
  • Apple 🤝 Rivian?
    • Digitimes (Paywalled)

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