2023 Apple year in review: iPhone 15, 15-inch MacBook Air, Vision Pro unveiling, and more
9to5Mac Happy Hour
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4.4 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Benjamin and Chance look back on the year in Apple news, assessing the state of the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the rest of Apple’s product lineup in light of the 2023 releases, and what is rumored to come in 2024.
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Chance Miller
Benjamin Mayo
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| 0:00.0 | So Mayo, we're going to do like our 2023 a year in review. |
| 0:04.0 | And when we were brainstorming and walking through the year trying to remember everything, |
| 0:09.0 | I thought it was interesting what we remembered and what we didn't remember. |
| 0:14.0 | Because it's been a busy year, but also kind of a confusing year, |
| 0:19.0 | especially on the MAC side of things. |
| 0:21.0 | So the first thing that we forgot forgot or one of the first things we |
| 0:25.0 | forgot was the Mac Mini. So this was what January where Apple did a new M2 and M2 Pro Mac mini and at the same time that's when it did the |
| 0:38.6 | M2 Pro and M2 Mac's Mac's MacBook Pro is that right? |
| 0:43.0 | Yes. |
| 0:45.0 | So that was January. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah, 17th of January was both the MacPraer and the Mac Mini update with M2. |
| 0:51.0 | Which is, yeah, all the way back in January, yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | Yeah, that's when we forgot about the Mac Mini, and |
| 0:56.9 | but at the time I remember we were so optimistic about having, |
| 1:00.8 | well, A, the M2 Mac Mac Money starts at what, 499, and to have the new higher configuration |
| 1:07.4 | M2 Pro Mac Mini. Like I remember everybody including us being optimistic about it. |
| 1:12.0 | It's 599, yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Oh yeah, 49 for education, that's what it is. |
| 1:18.0 | But in the month since then, like, has, |
| 1:21.0 | what do you think about the current state of the Mac mini? |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, like at this point, it's the desktop computer that's got the most updates, |
| 1:29.0 | because it's so far got the M1 and the M2 and it will presumably get M3 sometime soon. |
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