Essential Apple Podcast 139: The obligatory WWDC edition!

This week is of course the obligatory post WWDC edition! I am joined by Weyhan Ng our resident iOS developer and by Donny Yankellow to talk about what we felt about this year’s keynote, and what it might mean for the Apple ecosystem going forward. With such a huge number of announcements we could never cover them all so we wander where the whim takes us…

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

  • Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount!
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Essential Apple Podcast 138: Pre WWDC Limbo

This week I am joined by Suffolk Pete (@Hermboy) in what is an odd sort of Limbo – we are recording this the day before WWDC, but it’s unlikely the show will be posted until after. So although we talk a little about WWDC we try not to make it the main point of discussion so we don’t just make ourselves look silly.

GIVEAWAYS & OFFERS

  • Listeners of this show can claim $10 off purchases of Luminar and/or Aurora HD 2019 use the coupon code EssentialApple at checkout for your extra discount!
  • Get Donny Yankellow’s 2FunDads iMessage stickers for FREE

Why not come and join the Slack community? You can now just click on this Slackroom Link to sign up and join in the chatter!
We can now also be found on RadioPublic, PlayerFM and TuneIn as well as all the other places previously available.

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Mac Pro TearDown

AnandTech Reviews The Mac Pro

Mac pro reviews are now starting to come out and by all accounts it’s shaping up to be a hell of a beast but not in the traditional way.  It’s clear that Apple see’s computing power not coming from tick, tock cycles but from harnessing raw GPU power. The tech heads over at AnAndTech have ripped apart a Mac pro, bench marked and analysed it in glorious technical detail’s in the way the do these things.

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Apple Mac Pro Teardown

Mac Pro Gets iFixit Teardown Treatment.

Wondering how Apple manages to crap so much technology into such a small device? iFixit have gotten their mits on a Mac pro and given it the tear down and reverse assembly treatment. However it does get an almighty 8 on the repairability scale.

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