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Why did Apple downplay the brand new MacBook Professional’s most fascinating function?
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This week on the Cult of Mac podcast: Apple simply launched the primary touchscreen Mac in historical past — and completely soft-pedaled the touchy-feely half!
As a substitute, the corporate emphasised the display screen high quality of the brand new MacBook Professional with PROLED XDR Show, together with exhibiting how nice it really works from mountaintops and forests.
Colour us shocked! There’s loads to debate about this momentous Mac. That display screen does look attractive. And a lighter laptop computer is all the time welcome. However that worth … ouch!
Additionally on the Cult of Mac podcast:
- Apple’s chip-and-ship upgrades to the iMac and the entry-level MacBook Professional include one large shock (and it’s not the highly effective M6 chip).
- The iPhone Duo‘s Crackgate is actual. However is it overblown?
Take heed to this week’s episode of the Cult of Mac podcast in your podcast app of alternative. Or watch the video model, embedded beneath. (You’ll want to subscribe and go away us a assessment should you prefer it!)
Cult of Mac podcast No. 39: First touchscreen Mac!
This week’s high Apple information
On the present this week: Your host, Cult of Mac Writer and Editor-in-Chief Leander Kahney (@lkahney), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and our colleague Graham Bower from the Apple Core podcast.
Listed here are the headlines we’re speaking about on this week’s present:

