630: Time to Spiral

Pre-show: Marco went to the bank wrong Follow-up: Vision Pro Corner New Adventure episode: Deep Water Solo Spatial Gallery Metallica immersive special is coming Virginia Tech 🤝🏻 Enter Sandman iPad Air corner “2× bass” false alarm 404 Appeal Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock ) 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly) Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe) Example video from Fabian More on colors (via Yossi Kanner) MacBook Air’s keyboard has new mute iconography Regarding the “Hidra” ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon? Interview with Srouji (timestamp link) Lernaean Hydra Gurman on the M4 Ultra & Hidra Early M3 Ultra benchmarks from Geekbench 6 GPU: M3 Ultra Metal : 259,668 10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 231,757 20% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 209,003 CPU: M3 Ultra single core : 3,144 ~10% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s best at 2,813 ~20% slower than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 3,921 M3 Ultra multi-core : 28,119 ~25% faster than M2 Ultra Mac Studio’s average at 21,373 ~10% faster than M4 Max MacBook Pro’s average at 25,647 More from Ars Technica A…