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706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight
27 August 2026

706: No One Is Getting a Good Deal Tonight

Accidental Tech Podcast

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    Pre-show: Marco’s casement windows


      Screen clips
      Screen clips, installed (white prototypes for visibility)
      TPU for AMS

    🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Movie Club: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    Follow-up:


      macOS 27 UI tweaks


        Redesigned stoplights in β6


          Video
          Stoplights
          Stretchy buttons


            Video

          Porsche 911, 996 generation


            In defense of the fried egg Porsches

          Turning off the Siri logo

        macOS 27 got the new Preview icon

      LLM determinism when temperature = 0


        Write-up by Horace He
        IEEE standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic

      𝓍OS 27 Photos Shared Album gotchas


        See also

      Other people’s phones


        Not sped up! All 1Ă—!
        i vs. I


    Apple iPhone event announced
    New Mac mini and Mac Studio


      Core size comparison
      SME replaces AMX in the M6


        Exploratory Github Repo
        AMX instruction set
        SME Introduction
        Hello SME
        Longhorn Toot 1 and Toot 2

      Marketing page section (via Daniel Luz)


        Oops, it was a joke and we didn’t get it!

      High Yield diagram
      M3 Ultra vs. M5 Ultra vs. M5 Max
      Mac mini


        Video support summary from Tim Hardwick
        Mac mini pricing history


          …inflation-adjusted

        Apple Upgrade program lease [un]availability
        Gruber on pricing
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          Behind the scenes


      Mac Studio


        Gruber on pricing
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    John’s purchasing journey


      The thing John mentioned that’s a spoiler
      The accessory that’s also a spoiler

    New […ish] keyboards!


      MacRumors coverage
      Apple Part Number: MJM4LL/A
      Previously: MXK83LL/A
      John’s keyboard (previously)


        MMMR3LL/A
        A2520


    New polishing cloth!


      MacRumors coverage
      Copland Supply

    Post-show: John’s new vibe-coded app


      Front and Center
      SwitchGlass
      Hyperspace
      DragThing
      Icon

    Members-only ATP Overtime: Is macOS slower than Linux when performing file system operations?


      Theo Browne: Your Mac Isn’t Actually Slow, It’s MacOS Fault
      Benchmark 1
      Benchmark 2
      Linus Torvalds on using C (timestamp link to 22m7s)



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