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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Benjamin and Chance react to this week’s trio of Apple announcements, with the exciting launch of the newly redesigned M4 Mac mini, and all the changes in the updated M4 MacBook Pro and iMac lineups. 

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Chance Miller

Benjamin Mayo

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0:00.0

The good news mayo is that we didn't spend too long in last Thursday's episode,

0:04.4

speculating about whether there would be an event, because as I was editing the episode,

0:09.2

Greg Joswieck took to Twitter to announce that Apple would have an exciting week of

0:13.4

announcements about the Mac for this week. Kind of a weird way to tease what

0:18.9

turned out to be a fun but also kind of weird week like Greg Joswiak on his personal Twitter account

0:24.4

saying stay tuned for more next week very odd and there was no like cook for up

0:29.1

or anything right it was just the Joe's tweet now. That was a bit odd.

0:33.0

Nothing on the newsroom.

0:34.0

And because Apple has a Twitter account, but they don't tweet from it, I don't think.

0:37.6

They just use it to run ads.

0:39.0

Well, actually, I don't even think they run ads on Twitter anymore.

0:42.0

Yeah, they pause that after the Elon debacle.

0:44.3

An indefinite pause it seems. So I guess they don't use the Apple account on Twitter at all at

0:49.4

the moment. And Greg Joswiex Twitter is just such a weird place to do it because his account is kind of noisy.

0:57.0

He's always retweeting things and like, like, and he never, he's never in the past shared anything useful, like ever.

1:04.0

Like I have Twitter notifications on for every time Tim Cook tweets.

1:08.0

But Greg Joswieck, no. So I kind of missed it at first.

1:11.0

It wasn't until our colleague Michael Burkhart put it in Slack.

1:14.5

Like 15 minutes after Jaws tweeted it.

1:16.9

I was like, oh, crap, there's the news.

1:20.2

But that manifested itself into three days of press releases this week, Monday, Tuesday,

1:25.8

press releases with short 10 to 15 minute videos published on Apple's website and on

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