687: You Can Bend This Line

April 16 · 1 hr 55 min · Episode 687 · 111.0 MB

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Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
- Roon
- Nugs
🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️
🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom
Follow-up:
- Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
  - Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though
- The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
  - Previously:
    - Eric Portis on Color Spaces
    - Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything
- Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
- Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
  - Others with this issue
  - Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago
- Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
  - See also:
    - Krebs on Security
    - Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman)
Ads are coming to Apple Maps
- Newsroom
AI-generated code & copyright
Ask ATP:
- When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason)
- Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza)
Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy
Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance
- Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers
- What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind)
  - MK1 High Density Rack Mount
- Bandwidth comparisons
  - Thunderbolt 5
    - 80 Gbit/s symmetric
    - 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays
  - SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB)
    - 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read
    - 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write
  - PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0
    - 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s)
    - 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s)
    - …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s)
      - 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed
- Internal vs. external SSD
  - 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s
  - OWC Envoy Ultra: ~5.1 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,250
  - OWC Thunderblade: ~5.75 GB/s; 8 TB for $2,700
  - PolySoft third-party internal SSDs
    - Kickstarter (ended November 2024)