Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show:

Happy independence day, John!

The Great Saunter

Pedometer++

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Tier List: Home Screen Icons

More about the flag

Follow-up:

Overcast transcripts

Missed Apex

MacBook Neo

Tim Cook on the MacBook Neo launch

New Ice Book? (via Adrian Bengtson)

iBook “Snow”

Teardown by Framework founder Nirav Patel

Framework

MacBook Neo vs. Chromebooks

“NFW”, says Henry

“This could be a breath of fresh air”, says Ari

“Medium” Core and M5 Pro/Max information from Apple

Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac

Original article 🇩🇪

PCI Express

Ubiquiti

What about site-to-site VPN for Marco?

UniFi Travel Router

“Not so fast, my friend” re: Wi-Fi 7 MLO

YouTube announcement

Blog post

Some shadiness from January

🪦 RIP, Mac Pro 🪦

Thoroughly Considered #123: The Last Detail with John Siracusa

CUDA

Ask ATP:

Are we running any iOS apps in macOS? (via Alex Kent)

How would we balance new shiny vs. familiarity? (via Michael Brescher Jr.)

Post-show: John and Marco bicker about islands

Merriam-Webster’s definition of “mainland”

Members-only ATP Overtime: 🥚 Update

10 February: Delayed to 2027

20 February: Smart speaker with a camera?

The Information

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Follow-up:

Overcast & Transcriptions

Marco had never seen inside a datacenter

What about podcasts that include their own transcripts (via Matt King)

Apple Podcasts transcript options

<podcast:transcript> tag

MP3 ID3 “SYLT” tag

What is Marco using for a job queue? Perhaps Faktory? (via Drew Stephenson)

beanstalkd

Ansible

Monitoring & control interface

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of the minis… (via Aaron Dippner)

System X

RDMA over Thunderbolt was added in macOS 26.2

I Ran a Trillion Parameter AI on a Mac

Apple Didn’t Have to Go This Hard

Apple Insider

Mac fleet management advice

Apple Business

AirPods Max popularity in New York

WWDC 2026 Announced

Ask ATP

What’s the deal with passkeys, anyway? (via Phillip Miller)

XKCD

Does having an 8 GB RAM computer keep macOS lean? (via Jon Fabritius)

Will we get an iPhone or iPad Pro that will use macOS when connected to a display? (via Keith Heaton)

Michael Cook’s contrary opinion

Post-show: Casey is continuing to quiet quit his Synology

DS1621+

Ubiquiti UNAS Pro

Casey’s NUC

Channels

Proxmox

Tailscale on YouTube

Derek Seaman’s Tech Blog (the extremely helpful listener 🥰)

ESPHome

Syncthing & rclone

Proxmox Backup Server

Transmit

Forklift

Members-only ATP Overtime: How Apple will add touch support to macOS

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Follow-up:

You’re welcome, world

Formula 1

A brief, renewed pitch to watch this season

Cameras

Are not a large portion of the coverage (via Matt Rigby)

Failures don’t [usually] matter (via The Racing Line)

Great camera overview video

The other perk of in-car footage (via Eric Fox)

On getting Sky Sports replays (via Brendan Webb)

Rosetta

A deep dive from Colin McKellar

Instant Final Cut Pro deprecation warning (via Tom Obarski)

iPhone 17e teardown

MacBook Neo

Gruber on the camera & mic on-screen indicators

Apple Platform Security Guide

On Apple Exclaves (Medium link)

CPU benchmark correction (via Philipp Sommer)

SSD benchmarks (via Vito Traino)

Andrew Marc David’s review

M1 MacBook Air benchmarks

General Apple Silicon benchmarks

AmorphousDiskMark

MacBook SSD benchmarks

John’s and Marco’s hands-on impressions

Teardowns

Tech Re-Nu

iFixIt

Video

Blog post

AirPods Max 2

Newsroom

John wins the bet (Overcast timestamp link)

Apple’s compare page

Overcast beta now has transcripts!

Mac Mini Vault

Green Mini Host

FileVault over SSH

launchd

XPC

Post-show Neutral: BMW i3 Revealed

The Verge

Ars Technica

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s 27 OSes and Liquid Glass

Gurman on 15 February

Gurman on 15 March

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Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner

Related episode of ATP

Follow-up:

An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)

MacBook Neo

John’s theory about color & clamshells

The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)

Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?

MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)

SSD speeds (via The Verge)

The  logo

iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)

Jason’s review

Dave2D’s review

Teardown

Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps

Performance Cores vs. Super Cores

New in Xcode 24.6β3: CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA (H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)

H17S is the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC

Quinn’s review

M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E

Baidu leakers

Super cores (“P-Core”)

4.61 GHz

10-wide decoding

Performance cores (“M-Core”)

4.38 GHz

7-wide decoding

~70% the performance of a Super Core

Dual operating mode from efficiency cores

Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)

3.05 GHz

6-wide decoding

Andrew Cunningham at Ars

L2 cache

Super: 16 MB

Performance: 8 MB

Efficiency: 6MB

Minimum clock speed:

Super: 1,308 MHz

Performance: 1,344 MHz

Efficiency: 972 MHz

Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)

MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)

MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)

Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)

TOSTracker

Example individual comparison

Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)

Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)

Studio Display XDR

UFO Test

MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭

Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via Kevin Sliech)

Superwide viewing angle

Timing controller (TCON)

Calibration

Display optimization modes

Formula 1 news

Drive to Survive (Apple TV link)

Dad jokey-est promo video (Also on YouTube)

2026 season preview

F1TV vs. Apple TV

Link accounts

Romain Grosjean’s

Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display

MKBHD

The Verge

Post-show: Marco’s Garmin adventures

Great Saunter

Injinji toe socks

Altra Torin 8 wide shoes

Garmin Venu 4 41mm

Garmin Forerunner 570

Garmin Fenix 8

Suunto Race S

WorkOutDoors

Pedometer++

Members-only ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 on macOS

Tahoe 26.4 warnings

Slightly more detail from Ars Technica

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Pre-show: The best (but slowest) website on the internet

Million Dollar Homepage

2013 BMW M5 (PDF)

2014 Honda Accord (PDF)

M4 iPad Air

iPhone 17e

New displays (‼️)

Studio Display 2

A19 per MacRumors

Some excellent throwback snark from Jack Wellborn

Studio Display XDR

Day-one software update

Mac support

120Hz-worthy Macs

M5 MacBook Air

No change in RAM upgrade pricing?

M5 Pro & M5 Max

Efficiency cores still exist

M5 Pro & M5 Max MacBook Pros

If you squint, a 64GB MBP got cheaper

MacBook Neo

Name leak

Prior art

Jason’s review & charts

No indicator light

Jason’s observation about the Apple logo

Announcement video

Post-show: John had a post break containment

Context collapse

Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s video podcast experience

HLS

Dan Moren notes prior art

Not based on RSS, laments Manton Reece

Stephen Robles’ video

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