263: The Smith Chart Is S-Tier

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🗓️ 1 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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The monthly Q&A commenceth again, with emails and Discord Qs positively pouring in about the origin of the flange effect, why all the electrical outlets are upside down, gaming on an M4 Mac Mini and how Apple's move to a 16GB minimum affects their status as a family recommendation, the value of moving to the Bay Area for a computer science degree, the race to the bottom in electronics parts and accessories, Will's holiday board game recommendations, an impromptu ranking of charts, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, a monthly bonus episode, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Okay, Brad. Today's the day.
0:02.4	Oh.
0:03.0	It's the Super Bowl of Black Friday sales. Black Friday.
0:08.3	Black Friday is the Super Bowl of Black Friday. Isn't that a little tautological?
0:12.1	Look, it's just best not to think of it. Look, in a world where everything's on sale all the time.
0:16.9	And it's like I started getting Black Friday emails in like mid September this year. It seems like.
0:21.8	No.
0:23.0	Partly I think it's because we did this podcast, but also partly because everything's like prime day is it's sometimes is in the summer.
0:30.5	Is it like September?
0:31.4	I don't know.
0:31.9	Man, I get emails about Prime Day all the time.
0:33.7	I turned off emails from Amazon.
0:34.9	I get so many emails about Prime Day.
0:36.2	I don't need to know.
0:37.1	Nope. I feel like we did we talked about deals on the full nerd this week like PC building deals and
0:43.5	went then category by category. And it's like a little rough. Like you don't don't buy a video card right now
0:48.0	unless you really need a video card. Right. Really? Why is that? Rumor is that Intel is about to launch Battlemage, the new thing, you know, their new
0:56.0	second-gen GPU, which is quite good because it's basically the GPU from Lunar Lake.
1:00.0	Anyway, we don't need to get into it.
1:01.0	It's nice.
1:02.0	Presumably there's big Nvidia and AMD keynotes at CES in like a month and five days.
1:10.0	Yeah, leaks are pointing to the 50 series and video cards being announced at CES.
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