The Benefits of Buying a MacBook Pro

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The 13 inch MacBook Air, now that we have the Apple Silicon era, it is in many ways like one of the best computers Apple has ever sold. If they can broaden the appeal of that form factor without increasing the specs of everything so high that they need to charge like $2,500 for it, that's going to get a lot of people in the door. Businesses are going to buy these like crazy because businesses want to give all their employees a laptop. Most corporate laptops bought for most employees don't need that kind of power. And also for most people's needs will be just as good unless you really need those like big heavy duty stuff.

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Pre-show: Marco has e-reader pre-show follow-up
Follow-up:
- Mac Pro Believe art update (thanks, Cristofer Cruz)
- Quick Callsheet Recap
  - Someone help Casey with focusing a .searchable() text field, please!
  - Introspect for SwiftUI
  - Marco’s SwiftUI error message
- Emil Jensen’s 2FA iOS shortcut for iCloud keychain
  - prefs:root=PASSWORD&search=2fa
- CarPlay
  - Rental cars (via Milad Cerkic)
  - At what cost? (via Dave Nicholls)
    - The Verge in 2019
  - Ford CEO doubles down on CarPlay
- More nostalgia via Michael Hannemann
Rapid Security Responses & Cryptexes
- Adam Engst at TidBITS
#askatp:
- Will consumers actually buy a 15” MacBook Air? (via Ben)
- Is HDR and Dolby Vision worth it? (via Torstein)
- What are our thoughts about standing desks? (via Nick from Toronto)
  - Fully Jarvis
    - 60” × 27”, Stone, Unpowered Grommets, silver legs, 3 stage, programmable handset, with cable management
  - Fully Jax Dual Monitor Arm
  - VariDesk
  - Fog Creek’s desks (2008)
  - Uplift
Post-show:
- People love their cars, too
- Marco went to Dave & Busters
- MAME