One of the things that raised a bit of a stink in my MacBook Neo review was the idea that it might be prudent for people looking to buy a $600-700 MacBook to also consider older devices off mainstream storefronts like Amazon, eBay, and Best Buy. To me, it made | Continue reading
Something I find myself doing from time to time is wondering if I've mentioned a piece of tech before, run a specific challenge before, or just trying to remember what episode to reference when directing people to an old episode. This data exists and could be acquired if | Continue reading
The above screenshot is from the iPad, and it's where you get to choose how you would like apps to display in the OS. Given my recent assertions that iOS and iPadOS are already the same thing, but with different exposed features on some devices, I'd | Continue reading
This morning, I pushed a small, but important update the Quick Tier List, what I think is the best tier list web app out there.Quick LookYou can now select an item from the unranked section and press the spacebar to quick look that image, just like in the | Continue reading
The latest version of Quick Subtitles is here, and it's packed with some significant UI and UX improvements. Let's dive into the UX enhancements first.Better loading indicatorsA few versions ago, I added support for third-party transcription models like Parakeet and Whisper. Unli … | Continue reading
Back in 2007 Apple released Mac OS X Leopard, which introduced a bunch of cool features including Quick Look. This allowed users to select a file and hit the space bar to preview it in the finder, which is awesome but it also made it so that audio and video | Continue reading
This week, Google posted that Chrome on Android was now notably faster at browsing the web than Safari on iOS. This led to the bold line in the post:Android is now the fastest mobile platform for web browsing.Likely due to corporate lameness, they didn't put specific | Continue reading
I wrote in my review that I didn't think benchmarks told the real story of using a Neo, and I specifically called out the Geekbench CPU single-core test as particularly misleading. That said, I do think the benchmarks are interesting academically, and in terms of what they say | Continue reading
I'm starting to think my apps have a trend. I think of a very specific problem that I want to solve. I figure out a nice way to solve it using stock SwiftUI. And then once everything is working, I give it a bit of style. This happened | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
The MacBook Neo is a cool little computer that I like, despite the fact that, on paper, it’s a pretty irrational purchase for most people (including myself). When I take a step back from the current hype cycle, I think this product is a tale of two halves: | Continue reading
The MacBook Neo is really something, isn't it? Novelty is a hell of a drug, but I also think there's something to specific products that, despite them clearly not being the best technical option available, still have a draw for some reason. Apple's actually | Continue reading
Cameron Faulkner, Richard Lawler: DLSS 5 looks like a real-time generative AI filter for video gamesNvidia announced DLSS 5 on Monday during its GTC conference, and based on early reactions, it’s going to be a divisive update, with some reactions calling it “slop” that unacceptab … | Continue reading
From the MotionVFX home page today:We are extremely excited to share that MotionVFX is joining the Apple team to continue to empower creators and editors to do their best work.I love MotionVFX and have used their plugins for a few years to add a bit of flavor to | Continue reading
I sometimes feel like I'm a minor villain in the iPad enthusiast world. It probably doesn't help that I'm pretty outspoken for wanting a touch screen tablet-style Mac or that I recently titled a post "Apple will kill iPadOS." But I honestly | Continue reading
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Sam Henri Gold: “This Is Not The Computer For You”Yes, you will hit the limits of this machine. 8GB of RAM and a phone chip will see to that. But the limits you hit on the Neo are resource limits — memory is finite, silicon has a | Continue reading
Chris Kerr: Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaignWhen searching for the blog post that kicked off the marketing beat earlier today, I noticed it has been removed from Xbox Wire (Microsoft's Xbox-focused news repository). In fact, the only post currently a … | Continue reading
Juli Clover: iOS 26.4 Beta Adds End-to-End Encryption for iPhone-to-Android RCS TextsiPhone users will need to install the second beta of iOS 26.4 to exchange encrypted messages with Android users, while Google users need to have the latest version of Google Messages.You love to … | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol: Apple's Upcoming Studio Display 2 Rumored to Have an Unusual FeatureThe tipster believes that a 90Hz refresh rate would make sense due to bandwidth considerations. Thunderbolt 5 can support 5K resolution at 120Hz without any compression, but they think Apple likely … | Continue reading
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon:A $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑What are we doing h … | Continue reading
When I started doing YouTube in 2020, I was in the middle of my iPad era, and the only Mac in my life was a 2012 Mac mini. I don't remember its exact specs, but suffice to say it positively sucks by 2026 standards. And while it was | Continue reading
ColorFlow is a really cool new wallpaper and animation generator from the folks over at ls.graphics, and it's pretty rad (and it's totally free). | Continue reading
This micro app is pretty simple; it's just a nice, single-page website for uploading benchmark scores and getting nice-looking charts for them, like the one above.The UI for adding tests and devices is simple, allowing you to create tests and add devices with categories, so that … | Continue reading
Terraink is a cool new website that lets you create cool maps of whatever location you want to. That's it, and that's pretty rad. | Continue reading
From the video:I've been complaining for years that it feels like nothing has really changed since smartphones came along. And I think that maybe, maybe I should have been careful what I wished for.It's been 2 years since Tom Scott stopped posting weekly videos | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Apple's MacBook Mini is such an awesome computer. No, it's not the most powerful machine Apple makes, but it is very affordable, which makes it appeal to at least two separate groups. The first group is people who would like a desktop Mac, but would not | Continue reading
M83’s Midnight City is one of my favorite songs of all time, and this video recreating it is brilliant. | Continue reading
Chapters in podcasts are super important, in my opinion, and I make sure to add them to everything that I create. Here's the process I use to get them into my shows faster than ever before.0- Have your chapters ready to goThe best thing you can | Continue reading
Ben Thompson: Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros.This is a lot more complicated than the nuclear question, where government control and ownership was a given; the sort of actions taken by the government over the last week fly in … | Continue reading
Apple announced new MacBook Airs and Pros today, and they’re both boring and mostly excellent.MacBook AirThis looks like a very basic spec bump, which I’m not mad about. I would like to see this display get an upgrade one day, and I'd | Continue reading
Apple updated both of their monitors today, replacing the Studio Display with a new model that's very similar to the old one, and they've discontinued the Pro Display XDR in favor of the new Studio Display XDR.Studio DisplayStarting with the updated Studio Display, honestly, | Continue reading
Over the last couple weeks, Anthropic and the Department of War have been engaged in a war of words over something very exciting: terms of use. Anthropic, as a private company, has created a product and reasonably established terms of use for it. However, the Department of War do … | Continue reading
About a week ago, I switched on my Canon R6 and went to record something on video. I have the camera hooked up to an Elgato 4K capture card, which my Mac sees as a webcam. However, in this instance, the Elgato was convinced there was no video coming from | Continue reading
In addition to the new iPhone 17e, Apple also announced a new iPad Air, now powered by the M4 processor. I could almost end the post there because we've basically reached the end of the list of differences. As far as I can tell, the literal only other | Continue reading
Last year I was among the more positive people about the iPhone 16e. I spent a couple weeks using it as my primary device, and honestly, it was a pretty fine experience. No, it wasn't as good as my 16 Pro at the time, but it was also | Continue reading
I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my apps, I built this one for myself and then decided it was worth sharing with the world. Weave is a native iPhone and iPad app for Typefully users.For those | Continue reading
In the second episode of the A Better Computer podcast, I talk more about how I think "killing iPadOS" is actually making everything more like an iPad. We look at why, from a developer's perspective, there's already literally no difference between iPadOS and iOS | Continue reading
Resident Evil Requiem came out this past week, and I was very excited to start playing it. It genuinely might be my most anticipated game of the year, and I truly relish my first time playing through any Resident Evil game, so I'm trying to really enjoy myself | Continue reading
In fact, making the Mac a refrigerator-toaster combo would reduce the number of things it's able to do. | Continue reading
Over the weekend, my Apple will kill iPadOS article caused some feelings, to say the least. The post title was meant to catch eyes, and it did, but I also think that it brought people into the article with the wrong energy. They were ready to fight, and read my | Continue reading
Wesley Hilliard has a new post out which is a bit of a retort to my opinion on touch Macs and iPads: Apple could enter its toaster-fridge era with touchscreen MacBooksIt's not that I think it's a bad idea, it's just an odd | Continue reading
Today I'm doing something a bit spontaneous, I'm launching a podcast! It's called A Better Computer (shocker), and it's "available anywhere you get your podcasts", as they say.Videos will appear on the YouTube channelApple PodcastsOvercastPocket Casts | Continue reading
Quick Notes has a new update out now with a few nice improvements.Background recordingHave you ever had your screen turn off during a longer recording? Have you ever wanted to switch to another app and look something up while you were recording a note? Have you ever wanted | Continue reading
Jason Snell: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report cardIt’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about | Continue reading