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-Adam Engst of TidBITS Content Network joins us to talk about Apple’s release of the M1 chips.

-We talk about “One More Thing...”

-Joe goes on a tear about some history of Mac.

-Joe is proud of his first generation JamBox.

-Adam is very excited about the benchmarks he is reading about the M1 chips.

-Even Rosetta 2 is showing a benchmark of 80% of native use!

-Adam talks about unified memory and how the memory is built in to the M1 chip.

-Thermal capacity in the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini is discussed. The MacBook Air doesn’t even have a fan!

-Sam & Joe are emotionally scarred from recent MacBook Air models.

-Adam is not impressed with the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro.

-While we were once concerned about first generation chips, everything we are hearing has us excited.

-Battery life is a notable difference that users will be most aware of.

-50 of recent Mac purchases were customers new to the Mac.

-Adam warns about issues to be wary of with Big Sur when it comes to third party backup programs like Carbon Copy Cloner and Super Duper.

-Time Machine in Big Sur now uses APFS. You will likely want to start your backups fresh.

-The low end MacBook Air has a 7 core CPU instead of an 8 core. Why?

-Adam is going to test his new computer by dumping all his apps in Login Items to see how it responds.

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