613: Dress for the Chip You Want

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Follow-up:
- Aperture was not a purchase; it was developed by Apple. (via Jason Sims)
- “Plain” M4 MacBook Pro and external displays (via Eric Roch)
- Mac mini
  - “Modular” storage
    - Quinn’s teardown
    - dosdude1 demonstrates an upgrade
      - Apple 8TB SSD Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro
    - Differences between M4 and M4 Pro SSDs
      - Benchmarks
        
        M4 512 GB
        
        M4 Pro 512 GB
    - iFixit Teardown
    - Apple’s replacement guide
  - Other tidbits
    - Heatsink differences
    - 256 GB = 2× 128 GB
    - Wi-Fi & Bluetooth are their own PCB
    - #askatp: setting up external SSDs (via Peter Welpton)
    - Thunderbolt performance limits
- Geekbench scores across Apple Silicon (via Wes Campaigne)
  - iPhone Pro Clock speeds
  - Ken Case’s observation
Apple’s smart home ambitions
#askatp:
- Should users be worried that 8/16GB RAM is “claimed” by Apple Intelligence? (via andrewsleigh)
- Why can’t Apple make a Studio Display with MacBook Pro backlight technology? (via Henri Sivonen)
- What power user hacks can we not live without? (via Ryan Tierney)
  - Alfred
  - Rocket
  - SwitchGlass
  - Front and Center
Post-show: Marco’s Mac Mini setup
- Marco’s OWC drive enclosure
Members-only ATP Overtime: Vision Pro cheerleading
- Patrick’s original question

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