Mac Pro Day
We are the champions, my friends.
And we'll keep up walking to the end.
Hello!
So guys, is today Mac Pro Day or what?
I just want to be clear.
I'm not saying that we are the champions.
We collectively are the champions today.
All Mac users, even if you're not going to buy this computer, which you won't because it's really expensive.
Save it for the show.
This is the show.
What is this?
So should we maybe talk about what happened today?
A lot, I would say, in summary.
I mean, so here's the deal.
We have a 90-minute show, roughly, because you're all here, and we don't want to overrun your patients and bodies.
But we have a lot to cover.
Like, a lot.
Yeah.
And so let's start with a quick summary of the event.
And I think we're going to spend most of today talking about Casey's favorite topic, maybe?
Yeah.
Yay!
So, quick summary, what do we think of the event as a whole?
You know, it's tough, because I now have to deal with six months of Mac Pro conversation, so that I'm not too thrilled about.
But I'm happy for you guys, and you guys.
No, Vignette got Sherlocked, as expected, which was delightful.
You still have until the fall.
Yeah, I have until the fall.
So, yeah, if you haven't given me your five bucks yet, let's get on that real quick.
Yeah, right.
But I did, I don't, they didn't really mention this in the keynote, and I'm not going to have time to talk about it, and so since I have the mic, I have to do it now.
We did get RX Swift, but first party.
Yeah.
Which is really exciting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That is very good.
And that was something, like, we heard the rumblings about, you know, Amber and what is now called Swift UI.
We didn't hear anything.
There were no rumors about, what's it called?
No, no, no, the combine.
I keep trying to call it compact.
Like the enemies in Half-Life 2, right?
The combine.
Great.
So, yeah, so that's something totally new.
I expect you, Mr. Casey Liss, this is your next job.
You are going to be a combine leader, not in the Half-Life 2 way.
That's a bad way.
But in the, like, you can be a consultant.
You can do videos, which you love doing, on how to combine things.
Like, you...
I see what you did there.
Because you are Mr. Rx.
Rx just got Sherlocked, basically.
So we're going to want to hear from you, the Rx expert, of how to use this.
First of all, you're going to have to teach me because I have to learn Swift now.
I'm so sorry.
We can clap for that.
We can clap for that.
You're going to have to teach me and probably many of us.
And so that's your new job.
So in case this whole, you know, contact app photo or contact photo app thing ends up not going so well after September.
Jeez, why?
You have a new thing.
So congratulations.
Yeah, that's exciting.
So to bring this back around.
Good summary of the event, guys.
So to bring this back around, there were some highs and some lows.
But, I don't know, all kidding aside, the keynote was breakneck pace.
It was unbelievably quick.
How much stuff, and we say that every year.
We say it every year.
No, but it keeps getting faster.
He would say like one sentence, and then he'd put up a slide, and before we even read the words in the slide, it would go to the next one.
It was really fast, which is fine.
More time for the Mac Pro, I'm all for it.
It was fast.
It was absolutely incredible.
And the State of the Union was good as well, but I think for the most part tonight, we're probably going to focus on the keynote.
But there was so much there.
There was just so much there.
Yeah, I mean, like, my notes for this, it's like 16 pages long in Apple Notes, at least in this big font I'm using.
Like, there's just so much.
I mean, there's the marzipan thing, which is now called Project Catalyst.
which is going to take me a very long time to remember, like all these names, like from the code names that we heard in the rumors to now their real names.
There's that.
There's all the changes to the OSs themselves, which are numerous and significant.
So this is a massive year.
I would say this is the biggest keynote since the Swift keynote.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
So anyway, before we get started on the main Mac Pro topic, we have a special sponsorship this week.
I mean, we have multiple special sponsors.
They're all special.
Every single one of them is special.
There's a special event that many of you have been requesting for a long time.
Would you welcome, if you please, dear friend of the show, Alex Cox to the stage, everybody.
So we are sponsored this week by Cards Against Humanity.
Who have brought not only a toaster for John to review, but I would say this is the toaster.
This is the Balmuda.
Alex, do you know anything about this?
It's the Balmuda toaster.
It's Japanese.
It uses steam, and it's very fancy.
Hi.
It's very fancy and very expensive.
It can't grate anything, which is sad.
But yeah, it has steam induction, and you just put in a single piece of bread at a time.
And there are six different kinds of bread, as Mr. Syracuse is expecting.
John is just trying to close it, like the rack is off the rails.
He's just trying to make it close correctly, and the rack... I mean, John...
We have now abandoned the rack.
The rack is out of the toaster.
John, can you explain what you think of the Balmuda very expensive Japanese steam toaster?
First of all, this is the one that people have been sending me for the past year.
Not the one that people have been sending me for the past month or so, which is the single square thing.
It looks like a Mac Mini that you put bread in.
This is the bigger one.
It looks like a toaster oven.
It's expensive, but let me tell you, the insides of this are not... I wish this was a video podcast.
This rack is no good.
I can bend this in half with my hands.
It's very thin.
It's not clear even how it goes in.
There's no multiple positions that it goes in.
Here is where you put the water and it gets steamed.
The door keeps flopping open and closed.
It doesn't seem like it has the right spring tension.
The knobs are okay.
The knob feel is passable?
Yeah, it's simple.
It's just got the two knobs.
I'm very disappointed in the whole rest of the thing.
I wouldn't want this in my house with this flappy thing and the steam.
And this tray is just terrible.
I've never seen one of these before, but I'm very disappointed in it.
We have toast here.
We have various slices of toast in various amounts of dumbness.
Audience, let's look at the back of this toast.
You've got to try the toast.
In all fairness, it's made for a special type of Japanese bread that we didn't have.
A special Japanese bread that is harder to toast on one end?
This is not even.
The top is done and the bottom is practically raw.
That's no good.
There's a similar one there.
They're all like that.
During the preparation of these toasts in the green room, there was a lot of smoke being generated.
Especially for it being steam-powered, allegedly.
I don't know what the steam is trying to do.
The Japanese seem to be super into having the toast be moist and stuff, but honestly, if you just get bread that's not stale and you toast it and eat it really quickly before all the moisture goes out of it, it's fine.
So we're saying this one, not the best?
No good.
Are you really not going to have any bites?
I'm not going to eat any of the toast.
No, that's not going to happen.
Just pretend.
Give me a piece of toast.
Eat the toast.
Now that Alex handled every piece backstage.
This looks great up top.
It's a nice, even brown up top.
But the bottom is a total disaster.
Like, this is truly awful.
We've covered that.
So who had...
Who had on their bingo card Casey eating Wonder Bread on stage?
Yeah, see, so here we go.
Let me do some Foley work here.
All right.
That was not good.
That was not good at all.
I mean, it's cold now and not buttered or anything.
I wouldn't eat it either.
It does come with a tiny little cup to put the water in that says 5cc in it, as if you put more or less water, it wouldn't work correctly.
I mean, I would argue it wasn't already working correctly.
This toaster is putting on airs.
You know, before we thank Alex, I do want to say that at least I do have sustenance for when we talk about the Mac Pro and don't leave for three weeks.
So the joke's on all of you, because I've got dinner.
Thank you so much.
Alex, thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, for Alex Cox.
Thank you for sponsoring our show.
Why don't you spin it around?
She's just going to leave the toaster.
All right, now you have to look at this abomination the whole show.
It's still sitting in front of John.
And the door is flopping open.
It's the worst.
We'll just let it air out.
Just let it air out.
So what do you want to talk about?
How about we talk more about the Combine?
I always get the thing wrong.
Combine framework.
We can do easily an hour and a half on that.
Because you guys don't want to hear about the Mac Pro at all, right?
Yes!
That works so much better than I expected.
Oh, that's delightful.
You're in the wrong place.
All right, everyone, buckle up.
I have some bad news for you, Casey.
It's Mac Pro time.
Yes, it is.
But I have some good news for you, Casey.
Oh, thank God.
I have just been handed a bottle of Tito's All is Right in the World.
I will try to resist cracking that.
We'll see how it goes.
We're all friends.
All right.
All right.
Well, we'll see how it goes.
I hope I don't need it.
Yeah, dip the bread in the Tito's.
That'll be good.
Thank you, friend of the show, Jason Snell.
I'm going to resist for now because I'm an adult, but we'll see what happens.
All right, John, this is your day.
This is your moment.
I was sitting next to you witnessing this happening.
In fact, I should point out that Underscore and I colluded, bad choice of words, Underscore and I cooperated to sit on either side of you.
So should you faint in either direction, one of us would have caught you.
So, John, today is your day.
What do you think about the Mac Pro?
I think they gave it less build-up than I would have thought, because we all knew it was coming before they played the video, so there wasn't much surprise there, and I was shocked at how close our sort of just guessing last show about what the Mac Pro would be like turned out to be.
The only time I had a little bit of heart palpitation is when the first frame of the video showed a round thing.
LAUGHTER
I was like, oh God, what have they done?
They were totally messing with us with that.
It's the sphere that everyone has been sending me jokes about.
But that was just a hole in the case.
So yeah, they did it.
They did what we thought they were going to do.
I think most of our predictions last show were...
dead on.
I'm very happy about it.
And I think to tackle this beast, we should start from the outside in.
Let's just start talking about the outside of this thing.
So, you know, it's a tower.
Size-wise, it's in between the trash can and the regular Mac Pro, but closer to the old Mac Pro, the cheese grater.
Aesthetically, what do you two think of...
I would say the design of the grater is optimized for softer cheeses now than before.
So I got a chance to ask a lot of questions about it to various people in the pro studio area.
And I asked specifically, like, are these new holes that are these weird kind of like Alien Eye, like larger holes with little sub holes that are curved in?
Do these serve some kind of cooling physical function or are they just designed?
And I was told they do serve functions of reducing noise, letting in a whole bunch of air and everything.
So they do seem to be there for a reason.
I can say that it is quite a striking look in person.
Not 100% in a positive way, but the reality is with this machine,
Where they went wrong with the trash can, the 2013 Mac Pro, is they optimized for good looks.
And for many of their other machines, that's the right trade-off, but not the Mac Pro.
And that ended up being its downfall, among other things.
But this machine, they have done what we all wanted.
They have put slimness and cute shapes and appearance...
kind of on the back burner in order to achieve what the Mac Pro is supposed to be, which is a big box with no thermal constraints that can handle the most powerful stuff we can throw in it and be upgradable and all that other stuff.
So, yeah, I think it kind of looks a little bit odd.
It's pretty big.
It's very similar in size, I'd say, to the cheese grater, really.
It's not that much smaller.
They wouldn't let me lift it up and they wouldn't answer how heavy it is, but I think it says on the website.
It's 37 pounds.
Yeah, it's heavy.
It's like, yeah, of course you already know this.
So, like...
So, like, you know, it's a big honking thing.
Sorry, 39.7.
I have it in my notes.
There you go.
Like, it's not going to fit in my beach backpack.
But it's got wheels.
Yeah.
I asked if there was going to be, like, a rubber wheel option or, like, a beach tire option.
I think they are rubber.
I think they are rubberish.
At least they look black.
Yeah, so it's... The fact is, the thing is big and chunky, and the air holes on the front of it look kind of funny, but...
It's awesome.
It's exactly what we wanted.
They sacrificed looks and size to make a machine that is awesome and has all the capacity, the thermal capacity and the size and the slots and everything else.
So while I think a lot of people are criticizing the looks...
I don't care because they made exactly what it needed to be.
Yeah, so let's talk about looks.
In the last show, I was like, they can make a rectangular and you can make a rectangular solid look nice with surface details, with neat surface details.
And there sure are surface details.
Like, so this is machined on both the front and the back of the thing.
They mentioned, you know, obviously for airflow and lots of surface area and all that other stuff.
And they also mentioned for like structural rigidity.
I'm like, are you putting a Volvo upside down on your Mac Pro?
Like, I'm not sure why it has to be so strong.
But here's the word that came to mind, even though I didn't know this word.
And please, everyone in the audience, do not Google this word.
Trust me.
It's trypophobia.
Oh, no.
Seriously, don't Google that word.
Do not Google that word, but let me just say it is a phobia related to things with holes in them.
And I don't think the front of this computer triggers that, but it is uncomfortably close to that.
So I think, first of all, it looks to all the world like a cheese grater.
They're actually kitchen cheese graters with like a stainless steel rod.
It's like the little thing there, right?
So, you know, and it is like, I'm trying to come up with a name for this.
We can't call the cheese grater the mega grater.
I don't know what I'm going to call it.
But like, if you took the old cheese grater Mac Pro and rubbed it against this one, the old Mac Pro would be grated.
It is seriously like it's going to seriously grate something.
And the Trippifodia angle, let me just say, I'll be glad to have this under my desk.
But everything Margo said is true.
Cold air comes in the front.
Hot air goes out the back.
Lots of big, lazily spinning fans.
Tons of room for stuff, which we will get to in a second.
And practically speaking, it's a big box.
And exterior design-wise, they one-upped.
So the Yosemite Tower and the El Cap Tower had a door that folded down.
The Power Mac G5 and the Mac Pro had a door that came off.
This thing, the whole sleeve comes off, leaving sort of the naked robotic core, a la the old G4 Cube.
You can get it all sides of this thing.
I wonder if you can even run it like that.
Then you wouldn't have to have that case on it all the time.
Anyway.
It is a very interesting design, very practical, very utilitarian.
They tried to make the surface details interesting, and they kind of wigged me out a little bit.
But, you know, I won't be looking at that part of it.
And also, luckily, I won't have to see the back of the monitor if I buy it either, which also has those holders.
I know I can't really see half of the audience here, but this is the thing you can only do live.
Show of hands, who thinks the looks of the new Mac Pro and monitor are, like, a little homelier than you would have expected?
Not that you hate it, but it's a little homelier.
I'd say about half the room.
A little more than half, I'd say.
About half.
That's pretty good.
Does anyone in the room love it and think it's the most awesome computer?
Looks-wise.
Looks-wise.
Just for the looks.
No love.
No one is like, well, one or two people think it looks awesome.
Anyway, I'm sure it will grow on us.
It'll be fun.
So that's the outside.
Anything more to say about the outside?
Yeah, it's got optional wheels, which I think is a very clever idea.
It's rack mountable, which is smart.
It's rectangular, and that makes that easier.
It's got ports on the top instead of the back.
It's got sports on the back, too, but it's also got stuff on the top, like the Thunderbolt ports are on there, and that's where the little screw thingy is.
It's got stuff in the back.
What else is going on?
There's a lot going on.
One thing that I picked up that I didn't catch from the keynote is that there is a USB-A port and two SATA ports on the inside.
And the idea here is you can add SATA drives to it.
You can also upgrade and replace the SSD sticks that go into the T2.
Very nice.
Yep.
Yeah, when we talk about expansion, but they were very, what they meant by modular is not a bunch of boxes that connect together, but it is even more modular in terms of the IO than any of the Mac Pros that came before, which is nice.
Yeah, like they actually want people to use those SATA ports, although there's no like bays, so like what you connect to those has to be mounted somewhere, so it'd probably like just be wired to a card that goes out of the computer or something, but...
It's there if you need to use it.
Somebody will make stuff to use it.
The USB-A port inside is useful if you have some kind of app like Maya where they still use those hardware DRM dongles.
That still happens?
Yes, apparently it does.
And they're usually USB-A.
And so that's what that's for.
You can just mount it inside and just always have it.
Or you can come up with stuff.
The I.O.
card that goes into the PCI-X4 slot on the end
The IO card is optional.
You can take it out and just put any other card there you want.
Like, if you don't need those, like, four ports it offers, you can just take it out and put something else there.
For great savings, right, Marco?
Yeah, right.
Probably not.
The thing with that is, though, that if, you know, whatever comes after Thunderbolt... So I look at your ancient cheese grater from 15 years ago... I'm sorry, 10 years ago, and you don't have, like, USB-C... And you can add it, but you'd be stuck with those other ports, yeah.
Yeah, so you could take out this I.O.
board and then put in your new I.O.
board with things that have happened since, I don't know, 50 years ago, because I feel like your computer is effectively 50 years old at this point.
In computer years, yeah.
Yeah, and so you can easily upgrade just that portion of the machine, which is really clever.
Yeah, the only thing you're stuck with, I guess, is the ports on the top of the case, which is like three Thunderbolt 3 or something like that.
Two, I think, yeah.
Yeah, there's not much, but everything else.
And then the two 10-gig Ethernet, you're stuck with those.
But everything else, all the other I.O.
is optional.
Yeah, and it's like, they really, like, if we predicted what we did predict, like, we were trying to guess, like, how modular does modular mean, right?
And we were all, I think, underestimating how modular this would be.
This is way more modular.
There are more slots than we thought when we go through all the things that are inside this case.
We got the one CPU part, right?
The just one CPU.
I think it has, like, 8, 12, and 28 cores.
I don't know if there's a 10 core mixed in there.
I asked about that, too.
I think there's like 8, 16, and it doesn't matter.
But I asked about, like, you know, what's the deal with these CPUs?
I thought maybe they might be Xeon E7s, but I don't think they are.
Because the fact is, like, they basically put, like, in the previous, like, in the iMac Pro and everything else, usually you're limited by about, like, 160-watt TDP, like the thermal limit of the processor.
That's, like, what the cooling and enclosure is built for.
And that limits, like, how many cores you can run for how, at what speeds for how long.
You're just limited by thermals.
This one...
They're using, I think, a 280-watt TDP chip, and the cooling system on it is made for 300 watts.
So they actually over-provisioned the cooling system, and they say that it can sustain full turbo speeds for quite a while.
Like, possibly indefinitely.
I don't know.
I didn't get that far.
But, like, you know, it's hard to get people to nail things down like that.
But, like, this thing is made for very high thermal performance as, like, number one thing.
So...
There's tons of headroom.
As Intel gets worse at making their chip roadmap happen, and as their CPUs keep getting hotter over time, this is going to be able to handle that for a while.
And having that thermal headroom allows it to...
Get away with not having two CPU sockets for most people's needs, because you can run these very high core count giant Xeon chips in there that need massive heat dissipation, and it actually works.
So given what they've done with the cooling and everything else, I am totally fine with this being single socket.
Yeah, and they used most of the cooling for what we didn't expect, which is the huge number of other slots in there.
So there's 12 RAM slots, which is a lot, and you can, you know, put enough RAM in it to buy a more expensive car.
The storage is just like the iMac, it seems like, up four telebrite max, that's fine.
the 10 gig Ethernet they got, but eight PCI slots, right?
And they divide these up in a weird way.
So one of them is the little half-length one, which is just for, like, your regular I.O.
if you want some ports in the back.
I'll get back to that one a second, because I'm a little bit, like, the utility of the modularity of this Mac depends entirely on how many people make things that you can stick in it besides Apple, which I'm a little bit worried about, but...
They've got the four double-wide slots, two of which are the MPX bays.
It's confusing.
If you look at their slot diagram, there's double-wide slots, but then there's a second slot next to two of the double-wide slots for those giant cards with the huge cooling thing in it for their double GPU stuff.
Then there's three single-wide slots, and then there's the half-length slot.
There's a lot of slots in this thing, and it just makes me think,
who besides Apple will make stuff that goes in there?
Obviously, Apple's gonna make enough stuff to go in there to spend all of your money, but years down the road, will Apple make new things to go in there?
Will they introduce new GPUs to go in there?
Will they support third-party stuff to go in there?
It seems like a lot of room in that case, so I really hope all, they didn't announce, like, here are our third-party vendors for their, like,
whatever weird cards that people need for video editing that I don't know about.
They meant the FPGA?
Chat room, help me out.
Yeah, the FPGA, that's the Afterburner card, is an FPGA.
Yeah, the field gate program over it.
Anyway, the thing where they make a custom ASIC that does a thing really fast and lets them run 8K video, and that's cool.
And that's an example of one of those cool cards that you can stick in one of those many slots.
But there are a lot of slots.
And so when they say modular, it seems like they mean tons and tons of slots and not a lot of stuff that's mandatory to come with the computer.
So I'm excited about that.
I think also the little bits we've picked up here and there and some questions I got to ask were in the area of future card expandability and card compatibility.
I think we can look at what happened with the Cheese Grater Mac Pro.
There were...
Not every PC card in the world was compatible with it, but there were a good deal of cards across all different kinds of needs.
There were disc cards later on.
There were USB 3 cards.
You could add USB 3 to your ancient computer.
Hardware RAID cards.
Yeah, hardware RAID, fiber channel, all this high-end Pro stuff, plus some nice consumer stuff like storage expansion and upgradable ports and stuff like that.
And that's all supported with this.
I was also told that the MPX slots...
You don't have to use them as MPX slots.
Yeah, you can just use them as regular double-wide slots.
There's that second connector if you need it, which provides more power and all sorts of other stuff.
Did they say whether other people can make MPX modules or just Apple?
I don't think... I didn't get a read on that, but I don't think that's going to happen.
But you don't have to use MPX GPUs necessarily in the future.
Yeah, just put a regular one in.
You can put a regular GPU in there, and if there's a driver that supports it, there will be power headers available for the extra power connector on the back of the PC cards and everything.
So there's a lot going on in there.
They really did this right.
The expansion story, I think, is great because...
even if Apple drops the ball and never makes more of these MPX modules again, which is a risk.
Honestly, look at the track record.
They have to prove to us that that's not going to happen over time.
So it is a risk that they never update this thing again.
They never touch it again.
There's never more cards available.
But I think they've built this thing in such a way that as long as somebody's willing to have a driver for some card in the future, they can have other people make GPUs.
They can have other people make other devices and everything.
And I think it's going to be reasonably expandable.
And it's going to be
I think very similar to the cheese grater, if not more, you know, more expandable over time than that because of all the options and headers and power things they've built into this one.
They've got the power supply for it.
They've got a 1.4 kilowatt power supply, which interestingly, which interestingly, like 1.5 kilowatts is the maximum that you're allowed to sell a consumer device that continuously operates.
wait because isn't isn't that the limit of some the limit of what you can plug into a regular outlet 15 amp circuit at 110 volts in this country uh yeah the the law is that you can do 80 percent of max capacity so 1500 kil uh you know 1500 watts is the maximum for any device that's just going to be on like all the time not like a toaster or microwave that can be on briefly or whatever so they're close to maxing out how much power they can even put in a case like that so that's good plenty of headroom there as long as the
power supply is quiet and everything.
And by the way, Marco, at this point, Marco is the only one who's actually seen this device in person and talked to Tim Cook about it.
But Casey and I are going to see it tomorrow morning, which Casey is very excited about.
Overjoyed.
I cannot even begin to tell you.
All right.
Before we wrap up, just the Mac Pro Tower, before we get to the display, let's just cover the price of just the tower before we talk about any other stuff.
All they said about the price, as far as I'm aware, and it's not even on their website anymore, I think,
is $5,999 for the base config, which is $1,000 more than I thought it would be.
It comes with 32 gigs of RAM, which is fine.
It comes with 256 gig SSD, which is garbage.
And it comes with the Radeon 580X, which I guess is fine.
But that SSD, that really hurts for a $6,000 computer.
That really hurts.
Yeah, because the iMac Pro, they started a terabyte for $1,000 less with a built-in monitor that's really good.
So this pricing, it hurts.
But I think modern Apple, it's like the project management triangle.
It's like the fast, cheap, and good pick two.
With Apple, it's like, does it exist?
And is it too expensive?
Pick one, I guess.
It's the project management line segment.
Let's put it this way.
It is expandable.
It is upgradable.
It has all the capabilities, but the default config is no good.
And they didn't give us any more pricing.
And as far as I could tell in the mad dash running around today, there is no place on the website where you can say, but what would it cost for me to get the four terabyte SSD?
What would it cost for me to upgrade the GPU?
All we've got is that one number, which is 6K for the base config just for this tower, which...
It's not completely unreasonable.
Again, $1,000 more than I thought it would be.
The upgrades will probably cost about what they do on the iMac Pro.
So at this point in the presentation, I was like, great, they did it.
It's the mega grader.
It has all the things.
It has all the ports.
I don't really know anything about the GPUs they were talking about, but there sure seem to be a lot of them.
They seem to be super proud of them.
And I was like, good, fine.
I believe you.
And it's available in the fall, which ends on December 20th.
So there's your deadline.
So we'll see you at your local Apple store on the 19th.
I mean, I feel like we should take a break before that, but we will get to display after, which is a more problematic area.
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So I have to, let me interrupt you, actually.
So at this point, sitting next to John, the excitement is palpable.
He's buzzing.
I was also Googling trypophobia, but yeah.
Oh, God.
Why?
That's also true.
Don't.
Yeah, with all the highs, there come lows, and we'll find another low in a minute.
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Anyway, just let's move on.
Where's that Tito's?
Yeah, it's right here.
Here, feel free.
But anyway, the point is, John is so happy at this point.
He's so excited.
And then we start talking about the display, and he's getting...
more excited why were you so excited john is this i saw early on they should in the intro video i saw the display i saw it had the same matching weird holes thing but it was on the back and i saw the stand that it was on and the stand looked like an adjustable stand like in the interview i'm like adjustable stand adjustable stand i can't believe it's going to happen no this is true
He said this to me in the keynote, and I'm like, what are you even talking about?
And then he's losing his mind.
I thought the slot in the back of the stand thingy on the monitor was like that you would slide the monitor up and down, and it would ride in that slot.
That is not the case.
It is an adjustable stand, but that's not the mechanism.
That slot in the back is just for when you rotate it, which is awesome.
When you rotate it to portrait mode, now you have a way to get at the ports.
Otherwise, they'd be hidden by the stand.
I think this whole design is also a little homely.
Like the stand is very stout or whatever, but it's adjustable.
It's got like that weird spring-loaded thing that the iMac G4 had in the arm, if anyone remembers that computer.
So I'm excited about the stand.
I was excited about the display.
It's not wide like we thought it was going to be, right?
Because this is so weird.
We could see them on stage.
They were all on stage.
They wheeled them out during the video or whatever.
And I was like...
those are the new monitors right did they come in two sizes because they look so small because we were so far away did you get that impression i did actually and we had been the rumors that we had heard were that they were crazy wide and that maybe it is the case i mean well you tell me they are really big they are okay because from the audience in the keynote they look so tiny
Yeah, they really honestly did.
Yeah, but then we knew they weren't wide, and then they announced the size they were, and they showed that diagram.
Here's the 4K display, here's the 5K, and here's the 6K, and the 6K is just bigger than the 5K in the exact same dimension.
So it's like, it's everything that we wanted out of a monitor.
I said I want it to be high-res than the 5K, and I preferred it not to be ultra-wide, and it's not.
It's the same proportions.
I don't have to look at the back of it.
The stand is adjustable.
I was super excited.
Then they went through, like, the specs on it, which are pretty amazing, like the...
The 1,000 nits sustained is, I mean, it's not that good in the grand scheme of LED backlit televisions or whatever, but it's good for something with the claimed specs that they have.
And by the way, we talked about this in the show before, the tech they have is like, the backlight is broken up into little segments, and they just turn the segments on that they need to turn on, so you can have blacker areas where they turn the backlight off.
That's not as good as OLED.
The segments in the behind the screen are not the size of a pixel.
I don't know how many there are, but they look to be maybe like a centimeter or two square, right?
There we go.
574.
So 574 is good, but that's not even close to a number of pixels.
So OLED is still better.
So in TV terms, this is not, you know, that's what I talked about minimizing blooming.
That's like if you had a completely black screen and then just white text in the middle, they have to turn on the segments that are behind that white text.
But this is going to be segments that they turn on in the backlight that aren't behind text that are behind black.
So they're trying to reduce that bloom or whatever.
So it supports HDR, wide color, ten bit color, all the great things they can do.
It's got a fan in it.
Two fans in it.
Oh, no.
I thought it was just one.
I was hoping they were speakers, but they're fans.
I'm assuming it was going to be quiet, but at this point, I'm still excited about it.
They're doing what they could do.
They can't make an OLED that big with that resolution because, yeah, you can make an OLED, but it can't be like 6K in a 32-inch thing.
I don't think that's even possible technologically, and if it was, it would cost even more money, but we'll get to that in a second.
And, you know, so good.
Everything's... I'm getting the Mac Pro that I want.
I'm getting the monitor I want.
And then they started talking about the price.
Let me just hand you this bottle of Tito's, John.
If I drank, I would be drinking that.
Yeah, that's a lot of money.
I mean... Also, before we even get to the real things that hurt, they did mention, oh, we have this matte option, which is neat.
Like, great.
They've talked to pros.
Some people like the glossy finish, like on the 5K Mac.
Some people like matte.
Great to offer both.
I was like, oh, no, now I'm going to have to choose.
Do I want the mat or not?
I can't really decide because I like the 5K iMac.
My office doesn't have a lot of glare.
It's not a big deal.
Or maybe I'll have this cool nanotexture.
Like, we didn't want to put a surface finish on it.
We're going to texture it with lasers or whatever.
Like, great.
Good job, Apple.
And then I think this is the point where they said, and so the standard one is $5,000.
I'm like, oh, that really hurts.
That really hurts.
And they said, and then the nanotexture one is $6,000.
I'm like, what?
I kid you not, ladies and gentlemen, and I know you can't hear this, you can't see me on the show, but his head fell into his hands in just utter misery.
It's $1,000 for a matte display option.
It's like they're trolling us.
Remember, we're like, I don't like your glossy screens.
I would pay $100 extra for a matte option if you gave it to me.
He's like, would you pay $1,000?
Yep.
The answer is, like, probably not.
Like, Jesus Christ.
It's not...
And then, my favorite part... My favorite part of this keynote was after that, they, as quickly as possible, said, and the stand is $9.99.
And then they basically ran off the stage.
Yeah.
I've never seen Tim Cook speak faster than when he introduced the next segment after that.
It was like, we want to sweep that right away.
Yeah, and that was the word.
I'm just recovering from the math thing, and I thought I had misheard it.
I thought I heard that the stand was $200, which I'm like, oh, it's such an expensive monitor, and then the stand is $200.
What a ripoff.
It was only after the keynote was over that I looked at the price.
I was like, no, no.
The visa mount, Jason Snell, is $200.
The visa mount, so if you buy the monitor, it's just a loose monitor.
You can just chuck it on your floor.
You can lean it against your wall.
You can prop it up against the books or something.
You can have a small child hold it up for you, but you can't connect it to anything.
If you want a visa mounted, 200 bucks.
And if you want that stand, a stand is $1,000.
What is it made out of?
They used to sell you an entire iMac G4 for $1,700.
It came with an arm that's cooler than that one and a whole computer and a whole monitor attached to it.
I don't understand what's going on.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
It's just really hurting me because I want that monitor.
Who doesn't want that monitor?
It's better than a 5K iMac like we all wanted.
I want this Mac and I want this monitor, but those prices, I can't process them.
It's almost, John, as though they said, you want a Mac Pro?
Well, screw you.
Here's your Mac Pro.
But it's not the Mac Pro.
When we talked about the Mac Pro, we're off by a thousand.
Fine, right?
It's the monitor.
Fine, the monitor is expensive.
Oh, it's $5,000, $6,000 for the silly Mac option.
The stand?
That's a bridge too far.
We never had a segment.
How much do you think the stand will cost?
It's not... Yeah.
No one is even thinking that.
They're finding what's next.
It's going to come.
The monitor is going to come, but there's going to be no cable and the cable to connect it is $1,500.
I don't.
Here's what I hope.
This is coming out in the fall.
I hope between now and then somehow someone says, come on, come on.
Like give us a discount if you buy both the monitor and the stuff.
For all those people who are just going to buy the stand and like pet it every day and plant orchids on it.
If you buy the monitor with the stand, we give you some kind of combination discount.
Yeah, like, if you want, like, when they did the stand thing and they blew right by it, I was like, surely they mean an extra one.
Because they talked about, like, you can take it off and bring it with you.
So you would have a second one, maybe.
Yeah, it would be cool if we weren't all, like, incensed at the price.
Unfortunately, that's not what they meant.
They meant the first one.
So if you want the mat configuration, which, by the way, I've got to say, I've seen these.
You want the mat configuration.
I'll get to that in a second.
But if you want the mat configuration and you don't have a small child to hold it up for you, it's going to be $7,000.
For a screen.
For a screen.
That's just nuts.
And in context, when the 30-inch first came out, it was what, like $3,000, $3,500, something like that?
Came on the stand.
Touche, sir.
Touche.
And it was Matt.
And it was Matt.
If you do inflation-adjusted, you don't really get there, I don't think.
But if you do the modern Apple of it's 40% more than you want it to be, it's still pretty expensive, actually.
I can't even justify it this way.
No, you can't.
40% is under.
But I got to say, though, it's a really nice screen.
I wonder if Marco will get one.
Yeah, exactly.
The only question is how many.
I'm not doing six.
You can connect six.
You can surround your room with them.
Get them without the stand.
You can use them as wainscoting.
I'm pretty sure you can heat your room with those.
That's true.
Three things will jump out at you about this.
Number one,
it is significantly larger than you think it is.
It's similar to when we went from 24-inch monitors to 30-inch monitors.
It's a similar jump, not quite as much, relatively speaking, but it's similarly like, wow, that's a lot of screen space.
So if you're always running out of screen space and you don't want to spend $7,000 on getting like six or seven other monitors that you can arrange in a nice grid, this is a really compelling solution if you want it all on one screen and you would love to set money on fire.
So, which actually kind of matches me, if I'm honest.
I was thinking it, but I didn't want to say it.
I do like one screen.
Yeah, anyway.
So, and it also, I wasn't blown away by like the contrast, the colors.
Yeah, they're nice.
That's fine.
I don't have, I guess, the eye to really care the way John would about like, you know, that kind of stuff.
But you do notice...
What they said about there being this extreme viewing angle is true.
I was moving my head back and forth, going all the way to the side.
I took some videos of going all the way to the side.
And you see that screen clear as day until you're at 90 degrees from it when it's physically blocked from your site.
The viewing angle is crazy good.
The lamination does indeed make it look like it is painted on the surface of that screen.
It is a really nice screen.
And...
It took me a while to find a matte screen.
I was asking around, are any of these matte?
Is that one matte?
I kept asking around.
No one knew if there were any.
Finally, I got to, there was a pair in the photo area that was matte.
And I could see it side by side, look at videos of it, look at how it reacted to the light and everything.
It's glorious.
Oh, no.
Because, you know, everything that Colleen said on stage was true.
That was Colleen Novielli from Upgrade, actually.
And also, she works on the iMac and other stuff.
So...
Everything she said was true about, like, you know, usually matte films or coatings, it's just like what we went through with the matte screen pictures for iPad.
Like, matte coatings do usually have that kind of rainbow noise look, and there's a reason why we haven't seen a lot of them in the retina era.
They don't look very good.
This looked nothing like those.
It truly looked like there was no trade-off at all.
There was no downside besides $1,000, but there was no other downside.
You didn't lose a good deal of color or brightness or sharpness.
There was none of that.
It was just substantially less reflective than the other ones.
The only purpose this serves is when trying to negotiate about someone else in your life who cares about how much money you spend.
Like, look, how about this?
How about I don't get the mat, and with the savings, I get a stand.
Now suddenly it's reasonable.
I can't imagine.
In conclusion, wow, that's expensive, but it's really nice.
And the system as a whole, to wrap this up, we wanted them to make Halo car, the most powerful Mac ever, something that has a reason to exist separate from the iMac.
They did all that.
They put a stake in the ground way at the high end, which is absolutely what we wanted them to do.
No doubt about it.
It's not like they had any half measures.
they put it really far in the ground, like far, up high, way to the right on the super most expensive thing, which is, I think, what they had to do.
You don't want to come out with your middle-of-the-road thing.
No one is looking at this and saying, yeah, but why would I want this when I can have an iMac Pro?
That's not a question anybody's asking.
So I think, in general, this is a rousing success.
but they put it at such high end that I feel like they made room.
They made room between the iMac Pro and the Mac Pro.
Like there's room for, I don't know, a more reasonably priced Mac Pro.
Same thing with the monitor.
Like who would like a 6K monitor but doesn't care about 10 bit color, right?
Lots of people, but Apple doesn't make that product.
So they've now done what we said and staked out the high ground and then the iMac Pro is like the mid range now or whatever and then everything else is garbage down to the bottom.
And now there's this big gap where you could make a computer that is less gargantuan than their top of the line, right?
So I don't anticipate anything like that, but I feel like just I know what one of the audience is planning a prosecutor.
You shouldn't buy this computer.
They're going to transition to ARM and it's going to be useless and you're going to have spent like 12 grand on something that's like buy it if you know you're going to make money on contracts for your actual work with it.
such that it makes sense to buy this now and use it for three or four years.
Don't buy it expecting to use it for 10 years, Mike, because you won't.
Buy it if you're Marco, right?
Buy it if you've waited 10 years to get one and this is your hobby or whatever.
But this is so high-end that you know if you need this computer.
Most people don't.
And that's why I feel like there is this gap that they could potentially... They could fill it with a revised iMac Pro because there's still room to revise that thing.
But...
Overall, I'm very happy that they planted their flag.
There is a new Biggest Baddest Mac.
No one is disputing that this is the Biggest Baddest Mac.
It's a little ugly.
Super expensive.
But overall, I'm very happy.
All right.
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Who is this computer for?
Because we're all developers, the three of us, and most of the people in the room, actually.
And so our natural inclination is to say, well, of course it's for us.
But
It seemed to me like Apple thinks that this computer is for like the Todd Vaziris of the world who are doing like video editing or perhaps photo editing or something like that.
So do you feel, and I'll start with Marco, do you feel like this is a computer for your role?
Of course it's a computer for Marco, but is it a computer for you as a software developer?
Probably not.
Right, exactly.
I think, you know, obviously there's going to be high-end needs where like if you are actually spending a lot of time all day waiting on your compiler while it's maxing out all of your cores or if you have high-end GPU needs, like, you know, there are people who this is for, but...
Honestly, they needed to do what we thought was going to be very challenging, which is differentiate this from the iMac Pro somehow.
And the iMac Pro has to justify itself above the regular iMac, which, you know, the regular iMac is great.
I used one for years as my main computer, as my, you know, developing most of Overcast during that time.
Like, it was great.
Most people are fine with the regular iMac.
They don't even need the Pro.
The iMac Pro is awesome.
It is by far my favorite computer I've ever owned.
I'm extremely happy with it.
And if I wasn't me, I would just stick with it.
But of course, I have to buy the Mac Pro.
I just have to.
But honestly, the iMac Pro is fantastic and covers so much of that middle ground.
I actually don't, like, you know, John was saying a few minutes ago, like, that there's kind of a gap left between it and the Mac Pro.
I don't think there's that much of a gap there.
The iMac Pro, I mean, we'll have to see, I guess, when pricing comes out for the Mac Pro configurations, but the iMac Pro is really good and covers a huge range of needs that aren't covered by the base iMac, which itself covers almost everyone's needs.
So I would say this computer is for, again, the money fire crowd, but also just if you really know that you need it.
And this is why, like, the visual appeal of it and largely the price of it aren't that relevant.
Because, like, the people buying it are not, like, individuals who are saving up their pennies for ten years while they justify having, like, a tower.
Like, that's not who this is for.
You can get it anyway.
Please, Johnny, you will get it.
So those people who are buying the $43,000 reference monitor, they don't care about a $1,000 stand.
It's like when you buy anything for those sort of studio environments or even just office equipment that just everything costs a bazillion dollars.
Like, yeah, there's probably a little chance of them complaining about the prices.
They'd be like, whatever, just...
put it on our bill with all the rest of our stuff.
That's who it's for, for people who know they need it.
All those people in the pro labs are like, we want all these slots to put all these cards in.
We do this stuff with 8K video.
We want to do multiple streams without having a proxy workflow where we have to convert it to another format and work with it in that format.
That's who it's for.
And here's the thing.
Those people's needs were not met by the iMac Pro.
Right?
So this is not a computer that's looking for an audience.
It has an audience.
The audience influenced its design and turned it into what it is.
The reason I think there's a gap is, you know, there's always some gap, right?
You can always look at this and say, give it to me with half the slots, with only one MPX slot in it, and with like a smaller, less fancy case,
and give me a 6K monitor that's not as fancy as this one, that's just a regular LCD panel.
It's like the 5K panel, but it's 6K.
Apple won't make that computer probably, but that's where the gap is between the iMac Pro, like a modular computer that is still more expandable than the iMac Pro, but that doesn't have all the fancy things that these people say they need it, right?
And I'm...
It's not a big gap.
Like, probably they're never going to make that computer.
It's fine to have this thing out on the high end.
And it's well differentiated.
And the more they fill the gap, the less differentiation there is.
But I think the gap is there.
But no, there's no question about who this is for.
People who this is for know it's for them.
And they're the ones who made it what it is.
Everything maybe except, like, the weird holes in it, right?
Even the wheels, when I saw the wheels, someone told them that.
Someone told them they have to roll things around in the editing bag.
I'm like, that's a good idea.
Putting wheels on it seems stupid.
That's a good idea for the customers that want it.
Same thing with rack mounting.
I don't think this is a product without a customer.
No, definitely not.
The reality is the customers who buy it
Six grand, seven grand, that's a drop in the bucket.
Like, if you're editing 8K footage, your 8K camera probably costs a substantial amount of money.
The lenses you're using on that probably cost a substantial amount of money.
The Pelican cases you carry it in probably cost more than that stand.
Yeah, right, exactly.
Like, the crew that you have to hire to film this costs way more than six grand.
Like, you're dealing with industries that...
This cost is totally worth it to them because of the time it saves them or the things it allows them to do or the ruggedness or the sure thing that it offers and the reliability.
These kind of products have this kind of market.
In every specialty industry, like AV, scientific stuff, there is definitely a market.
The market is just not...
the kind of person who likes to just buy a PC tower and expand it over time.
And that does leave people behind.
But the fact is, Apple left those people behind in 2012, not today.
And Apple's never going to make the XMac that everybody wants.
They're never going to make the $1,200 mid-tower that has slots.
I mean, but they did make the Mac Pro.
Like, those cheese graters actually did fall in this middle slot because they were kind of good for the high end, but they didn't go as far as this thing goes, right?
And they did extend down.
They always had, like I said, the stripper model, the low-end Mac Pro, where it was the same case, right?
They think it's funny, too.
instead of two, right?
Like, so it's not like they've never been down in that realm.
It's just that, like, they shouldn't.
They shouldn't be down there right now.
They should plant the flag, which they did.
Maybe we'll see if they fill in that other area.
It also depends on how fast they update this and what kind of, like, update cycle is it on.
Are they going to bump the GPUs in this every time a new GPU comes out?
Are they going to put it on a yearly cycle?
Is it so pro that they can go two years between because it's so expandable that their customers don't care?
You know, I don't know.
We'll see.
And also, like, you know, the time where the cheese grater came out in 2006 was
That was a very different time in hardware than it is today.
Back then, you needed a big expandable tower with the four drive bays and everything just to get really good performance.
This was before SSDs, laptops, CPUs still pretty much sucked.
Well, they kind of still do, but it was before a lot of modern advances and back when we were still really pushing our hardware to its limits, even for common use cases.
So back then, a lot more people wanted slash needed an expandable tower.
But that market has really dwindled over time.
And on the PC side, you have gamers that want that.
Apple does not care about that market at all, and they never have.
And the Mac Pro never solved that very well.
And beyond gamers, you don't really have a lot of people who really need tower performance.
Most people are satisfied by laptops or iMacs.
So if they're going to make this computer, they don't really need to address the old people who want towers because those people mostly aren't there or have mostly moved to PCs.
And there's also, like, you have to consider, like...
This is Apple.
Apple needs this to be worthwhile for them.
I think the way they made the iMac Pro worthwhile to them was by starting it at the terabyte, 32 gig configuration, and therefore being able to price it at $5,000.
So the cheapest iMac Pro you can buy is $5,000, and I think Apple kind of made that worthwhile on their spreadsheet to make this product by saying, well, we're not going to sell this in large volume,
We're going to milk every penny of the people who want it, right?
And I think this is a more extreme step in that direction.
They need the Mac Pro to be worth it.
They've already eaten away a lot of its market share with laptops, iMacs, and iMac Pros.
So they're going to sell not a high volume of these things, and so it needs to be worth it to them.
So, of course, they're going to make it extraordinarily expensive.
Same deal with the display.
Most people don't buy high-end displays anymore.
So it's going to sell in low quantities.
So...
If making these things cost a car is what Apple needs to justify making these products, yeah, it sucks when it comes time to pay for, and it's going to leave a lot of people out.
But the alternative is the spreadsheet saying, don't make these products at all.
So if given that choice on the project management line segment, I pick this.
This is better than not having these products at all, and that really was going to be our alternative.
That's right.
Better than not existing at all.
The new Mac Pro.
It's glowing endorsement.
All right.
So with that in mind, John, are you going to buy one?
I mean, I need to get to the point where I can do a configurator, you know, like see what the things are.
It was like the monitor.
We know what the monitor is and it's rough, but like, can I swing that?
It really depends on when I go and upgrade the tower to reasonable specs because there's no way I'm getting it with a 256 gig SSD.
Like,
When I increase the video card to like the second best option with just the one GPU, but the good GPU, and when I increase the storage, like how much does it all come to?
And we're assuming, I mean, I'm probably going to let Marco go first.
Like we're assuming all this stuff is actually reliable and not finicky and not weird, right?
Because there's a potential it could be finicky and weird.
Like that happened with the trash can, right?
My plan is to price it out and see if I could swing it.
I definitely want it.
I don't want to get it and then have it be finicky because then I'll be super pissed.
So probably Marco will get it first and he will be our guinea pig.
And while he is telling us what it's like, I will be configuring it every day and
Looking at my bank account and configuring it and looking at my bank account and configuring it and just doing that.
Do you think they're going to sell 10-year AppleCare?
The AppleCare, this is the best AppleCare deal you'll ever get.
I think it's like $200 for three years of AppleCare on your $20,000 computer.
That is actually an interesting question.
There is at least a feasible possibility, a legitimate possibility, that you will pay as much for a computer as you did for your car.
No, that's not going to happen.
I don't know, man.
I don't know.
My wife is listening to this now somehow is going to say, no, that's not going to happen.
How do you not buy the display?
That's my question.
No, you have to buy the display.
I'm not buying this thing without the display.
It's either I'm getting it all or I'm not getting it.
And to be clear, I'm not saying to you, the audience, how do you not buy it?
Because nobody should buy it.
How does a Marco not buy the display?
No, how do you?
You're not going to look at a Dell monitor.
Because then what monitor would you get with it?
If you just get the tower and you're like, well, I got this awesome tower, what do you connect to that LG 5K?
No, thanks.
No, exactly.
Like an animal.
Like an animal.
So, Marco, I guess my question for you is, are you buying a monitor for home and for the beach?
Are you buying only one stand and visa mounting in the other location?
How many of these things are you buying is, I think, what we're really wanting to know.
Is the answer what I should buy?
No, the answer is what are you doing?
Because we all know what you should buy.
What I should buy is none of this.
I should just keep my iMac Pro because it's awesome and it satisfies all my needs and it's relatively portable.
Yeah, you have a great carrying case.
Exactly.
Compared to this, it's way easier to bring out there.
So actually, I shouldn't buy any of this.
That being said...
So that being said, I'm almost certain to buy a Mac Pro.
I do want the monitor.
I want the mat.
I want the stupid stand.
So I'm going to buy a $7,000 monitor, and I feel really horrible saying that out loud, but it's going to happen.
We all know it's going to happen.
That's not up for grabs.
Yeah.
Just one?
Just one monitor?
At least just one for home.
Yeah, see?
I'm looking at Tiff now.
Is he just buying one?
Yeah.
It seems like you might be getting two of these.
I mean, my beach plan with portability I think is significantly hampered by the bulk of this machine.
It's awfully large.
It really is about the same size as the cheese grater.
It's that size class at least.
And so it's very large, very heavy.
That's not going to fit in a backpack like the trash can kind of did.
That's going to be a very big machine.
So I might not bring it back and forth to the beach.
I might just bring a laptop.
Who am I kidding?
Maybe I'd get two.
Who knows?
But...
My current plan... Oh, my God.
My current plan is to just get between zero and one Mac Pros and between one and two monitors.
With SANS.
Well, yeah, I'm not going to lean it against the wall.
Well, you could get a Visa mount, man.
I mean, you could go the Jason Snell route.
I've had the various VESA arms and everything, and I don't like them.
They're really crappy.
There was a time and a place for them.
I used them a lot during my PC days when I had no taste.
And now...
Now, my standards are precious and higher.
Just like John can't bear to use the LG because it's kind of crappy.
That's how I am with third-party stands.
I've used them for a long time.
I can't do that anymore.
I'd rather just keep my iMac Pro than not get this monitor if I get the Mac Pro.
So let me ask a legitimate question.
I thought during the keynote they said that some of the modern MacBook Pros could drive this monitor.
Did I make that up?
They said the 15-inch can drive two of them.
I don't know if it's just the most recent one.
I'm sure the tech note is up somewhere.
But I don't know if the 13-inch can, but I think it probably could drive one, maybe, or zero.
Who knows?
But the reality is, I mean, if you're buying a $7,000 monitor, is it that big of a deal if it can't work with your $1,000 laptop?
Yeah.
Well, but that's the thing.
I can see a solution in the world of Marco where you have a beach monitor.
By solution, you mean justification.
Yeah, well, you have your beach monitor and your home monitor, and you just bring your MacBook Pro back and forth because that's easy and portable, and the new MacBook Pros are getting ever faster.
That is an option I probably should do.
And I did it for a couple of summers.
I did that option.
I just hate the MacBook Pro so much right now.
And so maybe... We'll see what changes this fall or this winter.
Whenever the 16-inch... If that's going to happen, if that comes out, maybe that incorporates some of the screen stuff.
Maybe it's better in all these various ways.
I mean, look at all the computers they've designed since these terrible things.
Since the 2016 MacBook Pro, they've designed the new Mac Mini...
which is awesome, the iMac Pro, which is awesome, the MacBook Air, which I think is kind of a half design, which is okay, but it was only a half design, and the Mac Pro, which is awesome.
So I actually have pretty high hopes that they have their heads on right for the next MacBook Pro, too.
So maybe the next MacBook Pro might change my mind about what I need to be portable.
If I can get the beefy, giant Mac Pro set up for home, and then just bring the MacBook Pro, and I'll bring my crappy LG out there to die, like...
That might be the summer setup.
But for now, I guess we'll wait and see.
$7,000 monitor, no Face ID built in.
That's another mild disappointment.
I guess Face ID is not a particularly important feature to the customers who buy this, but I'm still kind of sad.
Well, in two years, you can upgrade the monitor and spend another $7,000 on Face ID.
Well, it would only be six.
You can keep the stand.
Thank you.
You think the next monitor is going to work with this stand?
I guess that is a little optimistic, if I'm honest.
All right, Casey, you're the one to prolong this, but I feel like we're done.
I feel like we've addressed the Mac Pro.
Happy Mac Pro Day, everybody.
Yeah, happy Mac Pro Day, everyone.
And congratulations, John Siracusa.
So happy.
So, so incredibly happy.
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Oh.
So do we have time for anything else?
There was so much more.
There really was.
I'm going to have a busy summer.
I'll tell you that.
There was the watchOS stuff, like independent apps on the watch.
There's a new audio streaming API.
I haven't looked at the details yet, but I might be able to do that kind of thing.
There's the little app store, the cute little app store on the watch.
It's so cute.
I don't know how usable it's going to be, and maybe Cirque should be better, but it's so cute.
But it's adorable.
Yeah, it's, oh man, it's that they're really pushing hard on the watch on it being its own thing being a standalone platform being independent.
I'm a little curious, like, how long will it be before you can have a watch without a phone paired to it?
I would assume very, very soon.
I mean, two years out, you think?
It might even be less than that.
In theory, what is holding it back today?
I mean, you have to go through the dance of setup, and that presumably would not be fun to do on a screen that small.
But, I mean, in theory, there's nothing that actively prevents it right now.
And so I agree.
I suspect within a year, maybe two tops, that you will be able to buy an Apple Watch and have no iPhone paired with it.
And I got to thinking the other day when this was starting to get rumored, you know,
Who would want to do that and why?
And my limited understanding of the Android market for smartwatches is that it's fairly barren and nothing is that great.
Now, that may be wrong, and I'm obviously biased, but I don't think there's a lot.
I don't see very many of them.
And the Apple Watch is getting so unbelievably good with health and fitness stuff...
And it's doing such a great job at keeping you healthy, like the hearing stuff that happened today, where it will tell you if the room is too loud and warn you that you should really consider hearing protection or removing yourself from that environment.
This is stuff that appeals to everyone.
I don't care what phone you have or don't.
It's appealing to everyone.
In the fall detection, if you perhaps have an older relative, I mean, all of this stuff is universally appealing.
Hey, well, that's, come on.
I'm sorry.
So Casey gestured to John when saying you're older relative.
That's, I actually, that was accidental.
I was just, that was fantastic.
I mean, I meant it.
I meant it.
All right.
I'll show myself.
Site gags on a podcast.
Good job.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Yeah.
Bring that back out.
No, but all kidding, I mean, if you have an elderly relative that is prone to falling, someone much older than John, perhaps like the age of your Mac Pro in human years.
But anyway, these are universally appealing things.
And I don't see any reason why someone with an Android phone or perhaps without a smartphone at all, why wouldn't that be appealing to them?
Maybe Apple wants to use it as lock-in to the iPhone ecosystem.
There's a big reason not to allow it, which is that you could purchase it with an Android phone, right?
I don't know what's more important to them, like the health thing and the value of them buying the watch itself or keeping people locked to the iPhone ecosystem, but there's certainly an argument to be made that way.
So I could see them maybe never doing it.
That's fair.
And actually, this reminds me, I wanted to call attention to you very briefly that I was extremely, I don't know if proud is really the right word for it, but I was extremely happy to see, I didn't do a count or anything, but there were plenty of women on stage, which has been getting better over the last couple of years, but there were plenty of women on stage.
There were people that were not white on stage, which was great.
But more importantly to me anyway than that was that they were really embracing...
cycle tracking for women, which I thought was very impressive.
And I was extremely happy to hear, because of the trials and tribulations that Erin and I have gone through, to see that they have some fertility stuff as well, and showing you when your fertile window is.
And if you're not in this world, that sounds either peculiar or if you're immature, perhaps gross.
But
Really, it's very important.
And this affects a lot more people than you would expect.
And so I wanted to just spend a moment and congratulate Apple for paying attention to that sort of thing.
And the makeup in the Memojis, which I felt vindicated.
You were totally vindicated.
Both Tim and Craig say Memoji just like you.
See, those accidents, they sometimes start a revolution.
So anyway, but no, I don't want to take away from what I'm trying to make as a serious point that I'm very pleased to see Apple trying to take into account people that are not young white dudes.
And I think that they've done that well in the past, but they've done a really good job this year.
So I think that's well-deserved.
And I think the privacy angle plays into this, too, because this is just data where we like and we'll track your fertility and we'll sell you this information to target so they can send you, you know, advertisements for pads at the right.
It's just and we trust now that Apple's not going to do that because they say they're not going to and they haven't historically in their business models aren't built around it.
So that's it's all part of the
like the same these same things wouldn't be the same coming from another company that is more of the standard tech giant that uses our data.
The only thing that I was had questions about which I'm surprised they didn't touch on and maybe they will in the more detailed session is like so these things like send you notifications on your watches.
I don't know you can turn it off or whatever, but if the default is on like if you're just hanging out in a meeting and the thing pops up and it says it's your fertile time and it pops up on your watch like that's probably not a notification you want your co-workers to see and it's a little bit weird.
I don't know.
I manage your notifications people.
I
Before we leave watchOS, I was also pleasantly surprised by the new watch faces.
The new analog solar one I actually thought was kind of hideous.
That was the one I expected the most.
You asked for a new solar face.
Well, you got it.
Yeah.
I think I'm going to stick with the digital solar face.
But the other ones, they actually had significantly improved...
design for legibility of the time while also having complications.
Like, there were a lot that had, like, the center dial was high contrast and nice colors, but then you can also put complications around the corners.
So, like, they actually were significantly nicer designed than I would have guessed, and then the first round of infograph faces.
And, like, the new one that has, like, little offset clock, but still has the big text complication below it and the one on the side...
It's like infograph something that like those look, these look really nice.
Even the wonderful California.
Oh, stop it.
The California dial face.
While I don't like those numerals as the style of the numerals, the design of the face with the clock and its color background, the way the hands are on it, like the corners, it actually is a very nice looking face.
So I got to say, I still think that we need third-party watch faces.
Very much so.
I love how they were like, we have more watch faces than ever.
And it's like, I can think of one other way to do that.
But we still need third-party watch faces, I think, ultimately.
But in the meantime, they have given us more options that are actually useful.
Instead of just having a bunch of fluff faces that just are good for a quick...
Oh, that's neat.
And then you immediately realize this is useless and you go back to your old one.
They've given us more options now that I think are actually going to be useful to people.
And I wouldn't dismiss the fluff faces.
Like, we don't make fun of them because they don't have enough information.
But like the gradient face, like people pick what they want to pick on their watches.
Sometimes they just want something they think looks nice.
Everyone uses their watch in a different way.
Some of them want to see all the information and have everything exactly set up, and some of them just want to have a pretty picture when they look at their watch, whether it's a picture of their kid or a weird gradient face or whatever.
So I feel like Apple has to continue making those, especially if they don't allow third-party watch faces, because that is what some people want.
Agreed.
I feel like we should quickly touch on iPadOS.
That's a thing.
That's a huge thing.
I don't know if Federico is here, but I know Jason Snell is very excited right now.
So, yeah, iPadOS looks real good.
I got the one thing that I wanted, which is I wanted to be able to manage photographs on a USB key via the Files app, and it looks like I've got that.
The multitasking improvements at a glance look good.
It's getting really complex, but it still looks good.
I mean, I think all of this looked and sounded really, really great, and I'm really excited to try it on my iPad.
Although I will point out, as most of you have probably seen by now, there is actually apparently a warning on the Apple developer website that says something like, for thrill seekers, in so many words, don't install Beta 1.
And I've actually heard from several people that would know whether Beta 1 was good or not, and they have all said, don't install Beta 1.
Yeah, I heard the same thing like we got spoiled last year with the iOS 12 betas because they were pretty solid right from day one and it kind of made us forget how bad beta one usually is because like I think like they they prepare beta one like weeks ago or like there's like some big time gap.
I don't know what it is but like beta one is pretty old at this point because they locked it in a while ago and beta two is like those few weeks or a month or whatever it is of a ton of bug fixes.
plus all the stuff that we're going to report from beta 1 on our test devices only.
And so beta 2 is going to be... If you're going to be the adventurer and install it on your main device, please at least wait for beta 2, if not the public beta.
Yeah, agreed.
So I feel like we're probably running a little low on time.
Should we kind of... A little more, but I got to say, man, by the way, sitting next to Federico and Jason Snell during the iPadOS segment...
Especially during the files segment.
That was... I wish I was sitting next to Syracuse for the Mac Pro, but that was the next best thing because, man, Federico lit up.
I've never seen Jason smile so much with the USB drive thing.
There is so much in the iPadOS update for iPad Power users.
Even the fact that they renamed it iPadOS suggests they're really taking this even more seriously than before.
Absolutely.
They're not going to let the iPhone UI paradigm limit them so much anymore.
Even basic stuff, like the new way you can pin the widgets to the home screen and then always have those widgets showing with your little icons off to the side.
They're just doing so much cool stuff on the iPad.
The multitasking system that we've had in iOS 11 and forward so far, it had a lot of shortcomings.
It's a little clunky to use.
I was using it all day because I brought my iPad in as my main device all day.
It's fine.
I have a lot of problems with it, though.
But this new one looks like they're really making good changes.
We'll see how it shakes out over the beta period.
I really want to hear from people like Federico and Jason and Mike, people who are iPad Power users of how this actually works in practice, how good the changes actually are, because I'm not really qualified to say.
But
man, it looks really good.
And it seems like everyone's pretty happy with it so far.
Yeah, very much so.
And it's funny because where we were seated in the conference room or whatever you call it, the keynote room, we were pretty much way on the opposite end of where the press was.
And I swear to you, I don't remember specifically what it was, but I swear I heard a shout of utter joy from what sounded like an Italian man on the other side of the room who was extremely excited about something iPad-related.
And I wish I remember specifically what it was, but I swear, in my headcanon, Federico just could not help himself and just yelped in excitement about something.
I don't even remember what it was.
I think we'll talk more about everything in future shows, I'm sure.
But I think we have a lot more to say about iPadOS just because this is such a fundamental sort of quality of life improvement.
This is really what they call it in video games where you get a quality of life improvement.
They don't change the gameplay, but there's some aspect of just using the game, like the menu system or moving between different areas in the game or dealing with your inventory.
And you could do it the old way, but it just would slowly drive you crazy because you have to do it 100 times a day.
And this just felt like a quality of life improvement.
I feel like there's tons more room, things they can do to improve this, but giving it its own name is kind of like a signal that we're taking this seriously as a separate thing now, and hopefully they don't have to wait two or three years for another one of these events.
I mean, I haven't barely seen Mike today, but I'm pretty sure he's been crying tears of joy for at least the last six hours.
Yeah, and there's so much other stuff.
I mean, we'll get into it in later shows.
There's so much other stuff.
I was especially interested to see the pencil updates.
They cut the latency more than in half,
How?
It was already really good, and I don't know how.
When you get into single-digit milliseconds of response time for things, that's just hard from a computational perspective.
How do you do the operations you need to do in that amount of time?
That is really hard, and that's really impressive.
I love that they added a PencilKit API, so you don't have to make your own drawing and annotation engines anymore.
That's really cool.
You can get your own blending stump in your own application.
Exactly.
they didn't say blending stump on stage i was waiting for it i'm like say it say it but no they didn't do it so now we no one knows what to call that thing except for us blending stumps for everyone hooray so yeah that that was huge the text editing stuff i really want to play with like it's it's a massive update for the ipad and i mean geez like do we do we have time to talk about ios i don't know if we do who would have believed that after the wbc keynote we wouldn't have time to talk about ios because we were talking about everything else
I know, that's wild.
But that's such a compliment to this keynote.
And I think it is clear that... It was clear to me going into the keynote that the handful of Apple engineers that I occasionally talked to were giddy going into it.
And everyone around me that was outside of Apple was extremely excited going into it.
Of course, every year, we're all excited, we're all amped, you know, this is Christmas for us because we're super nerds and whatever, but this is still something that's super exciting, but this year, and I've probably said this in years past, but this year felt to me significantly more so than it ever did before, that everyone involved was extremely excited.
They were excited on the inside, we were excited looking in from the outside, and
I know we've said it a couple times, but that keynote was breakneck speed.
I feel like, and I made this joke before, but I feel like, what was it, the Maxell ad where the guy's just getting blown back by the speaker system?
This is only if you're old that you'll understand this, so John gets it.
But one way or another, it just felt like it was nonstop.
And I sit here, and I can't think off the top of my head of what got left out.
And I'm sure you give the three of us another couple of weeks.
We'll give you plenty of things that got left out.
But sitting here tonight, the day of the keynote...
I don't even know what got left out.
It's huge.
I mean, there's so much stuff.
I'm going to have a very busy summer because they gave me audio intents, intents with parameters, all this stuff that we've wanted.
Whether I want to do the watch.
We haven't even talked about Marzipan slash, what's it called now?
Catalyst.
And Combine.
Who would have guessed we would have gotten here without talking about that?
That's what I feel like most of the Apple people were super excited about.
The people who knew they were all excited about Amber or what is the new name?
Swift UI.
That's also huge.
And it's weird that the keynote, not that I'm complaining, they spent a lot of time on the Mac Pro and I feel like Swift UI and Combine and Marzipan
And the development story that that makes for the future of Apple's platforms, yeah, they touched on it or whatever, but I thought they would have leaned on it even harder.
So it seems like they're a little bit more cautious about that than they were about Swift.
But look at those pieces and put them together, and I guess look at the sessions this week.
That's the future of development on Apple's platforms, if all goes to plan, as they would say in the UK.
So I was surprised...
What?
Everything goes to plan.
It's a Britishism.
Yeah, it is.
Mike is so confused right now, as am I. So the British in the audience are denying your claim, I think.
Citation needed.
Yeah, I thought they would have leaned on that even more because it's such a significant dev story.
But the keynote is a combination of dev story and also whatever weird stuff they want to announce.
So they spend a lot of time on the Mac Pro and they spend probably an equal amount of time on those three things.
But the rest of this week,
I know we haven't talked about it in this show, but we will in future shows.
I think that is still the biggest story of WWDC, which was underemphasized by Apple in the keynote specifically.
Very much so.
Agreed.
All right.
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Oh, it was accidental.
Accidental.
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So I wanted to do a quick exit interview for the outgoing trashcan Mac Pro.
Oh, no!
So I wanted to do a quick list of things that are younger than the trashcan Mac Pro to give you some idea of how long it has been since the Mac Pro got an update.
Oh, no.
So things that are younger than the MacBook.
The previous generations of iPod Touch, MacBook Air, and Mac Mini that we all said were ancient and just recently got replaced, those were all newer than the Mac Pro.
The iPhone 6, 6 Plus, and SE.
The first Apple Watch.
So we all think of that as being this ancient, old, outdated thing.
That was newer than the Mac Pro.
I'm wearing one now.
Yeah, exactly.
That's true, actually.
As were the Apple TVs that ran TVOS and introduced the glorious Siri remote.
It was a good couple years in industrial design there.
The entire existence of Force Touch, the 12-inch MacBook, the iPad Pro, all of them.
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The 5K Retina iMac.
That was like two computers ago for me now.
Apple Music.
The last color changes to the iPod line.
Oh my word.
So that has happened since the Mac Pro, the Trashcan Mac Pro.
As has every Amazon Echo and smart home speaker.
Oh my word.
We've also had all of Overcast is newer.
Swift.
HealthKit, HomeKit, CloudKit, and anything based on CloudKit, including the Modern Notes app, Photos app, iCloud Photo Library, all widgets and all extensions for iOS apps, the iOS Tips app, helpful, right?
Mac OS X Yosemite, which is before they renamed it to Mac OS, and introduced things like Notification Center, and the first dark mode when it was just like the menu bar, the GoToFail SSL bug,
Too soon.
Yeah.
Trust me, it's not too soon.
Timber by Pitbull and Shake It Off by Taylor Swift.
Have you heard either of those songs ever?
I have.
Okay, I'm impressed.
Not that many, and I had to look up how to spell Pitbull and stuff, but yeah.
The entire Flappy Bird craze.
HBO's Silicon Valley show and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
The Last Hobbit movie for John.
All of RelayFM.
Oh, my word.
Mike is telling us that he started RelayFM on the Trashcan Mac Pro.
That is insane.
It survived anyway.
Also, John's entire dog.
Both of Casey's children.
I was waiting for this.
That's exactly right.
And the last 245 episodes of this show.
So, farewell, Trash Can Mac Pro.
You've served us well.
You served us a little bit sometimes.
Occasionally.
You provided us show artwork for all this time.
We're going to have to get new artwork.
Anyway, I want to close tonight by thanking the wonderful people from this venue.
And we got a lot of help.
In fact, can Stephen Hackett report to the stage, please?
Stephen Hacker, report to the stage.
You are allowed to leave your post to come to the stage.
I think he's moving from upstairs.
We want to thank the people at the Hammer Theater here.
They've been wonderful to work with.
We don't have to say this, but we are.
They have been just amazing to work with.
We are very happy here.
We want to thank them for making this easy.
We want to thank everyone who's helped us out with this event.
We want to thank RelayFM for tipping us off to this theater in the first place from their show last year.
And, of course, we all have shows there, and you should listen to them as well.
So...
Thank you to everybody who made this event happen.
It has been wonderful to be here.
Thank you to all of you, most of all, for being our audience all this time.
Don't worry, we're not ending the show.
I'm just thanking you.
We're still going to do this podcast.
Don't worry.
Thank you all this time.
You've been our loyal listeners.
You allow us to do crazy stuff like this.
So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you very much.
It has really been wonderful.
Here's to you guys.
Thank you very much.
All right.
And you didn't have to work nights and weekends to listen to this podcast.
Yeah.
Oh, deep cut.
Deep cut.
All right.
So, Stephen, would you please come out here?
I want to especially thank Mr. Stephen Hackett.
Very much so.
Stephen saved this entire program.
Stephen, can you grab the microphone behind me, the wireless mic?
Stephen looks very scared right now.
He should be.
So I want to thank Stephen Hackett because he has been running the recorder for us back there, doing the live stream, doing the mix that I'm going to make the podcast with.
He's been doing a wonderful job, and I really want to thank him.
Do I get the toaster?
I don't eat bread.
No, we like you, Stephen.
Stephen is not famous for a collection of toasters.
He's famous for a collection of Macs, an old Macs.
And there is one old Mac that Stephen does not have in his collection.
Oh, no.
That I think it's only fitting that we give to him tonight.
So as a thank you to Stephen.
I should say for the listeners that Marco has white gloves on.
Marco is presenting to Stephen with white gloves a trash can Mac Pro.
If you want, you can handle it with gloves because it gets fingerprints on it very easily.
So now Stephen is placing black gloves onto his hands.
So it's only fitting that I think we thank Stephen for his work making this event happen with this wonderful addition to his collection, the Trash Can Mac Pro.
To Stephen, everybody.
Thank you.
And you may put the first fingerprints on that case.
You already have.
So thank you very much, everybody, for coming out here.
Thank you to everyone who made this event happen.
And we will see you next year and also next week.
Thanks, everybody.