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630: Time to Spiral
      
        March 13, 2025
      
      
        02:36:58
      
      
        
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      - 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
 
 - iPad Air corner
- “2× bass” false alarm
 - Appeal
- Affordable big screen (notes John Spurlock)
 - 🗣️ ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE PEOPLE LIKE COLOR 🗣️ (via Ryan Manly)
 
 
 - Portrait-only iPad apps (via Matt Rippetoe)
 - 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
 
 - ATP #562: Do You Have a Dragon?
 - 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
 
 
 - M3 Ultra single core: 3,144
 - More from Ars Technica
 
 - GPU: M3 Ultra Metal: 259,668
 - Apple is working on a larger iMac? (AKA John tries to save face)
 - Threads timeline setting update
 - Thoughts on Feedback
 
 - Vision Pro Corner
 - Apple is allegedly “dramatically” redesigning the UI for its next OSes
 - Post-show: John’s speaker update
 - Members-only ATP Overtime: Some Volkswagen news
 
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