MacBooks, MacBook Pro, and what Apple's launching in March, on the AppleInsider Podcast
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Wesley urges password managers, unique passwords, and explains how data brokers compile invasive user profiles.
Tim Cook has made us want to skip the weekend and get straight to the new launches Apple has for us starting on Monday. That might include a low-cost MacBook, but then further ahead there's a hint of a touch-screen MacBook Pro later this year, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.
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Links from the Show:
- How Apple will target consumers with budget MacBook, again
- Inexpensive MacBook is the perfect way to get users deeper into the Apple ecosystem
- Compromises for affordability ahead: Code leak spills details on new MacBook
- Rising memory & battery costs complicate Apple's lower-cost MacBook
- Touch-screen OLED MacBook Pro to get small Dynamic Island
- Experience F1 tracks with 3D art in Apple Maps ahead of each race
- Why Gen Z and young adults are embracing iPods again
- Nerds are fighting to bring back gadgets even as iPhone wants them dead
- If iPhone Fold is truly coming in 2026, expect big leaks very soon
- Right on schedule, test production of iPhone 18 Pro fires up
- iPhone Fold hinge crease will be about 1/4 the depth of the Galaxy Fold 7
- Expect at least five announcements during Apple's March launch week
- Apple has its problems, but still the only real choice for privacy
- A leaked internal email shows Ring's plan targets more than pets
- A FaceBook smart watch is okay, if you don't value privacy
- This Meta smartglasses-detecting app is a great model for Apple Glass developers to follow
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- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:18) - March launches
- (36:13) - Low-cost MacBook
- (40:37) - Touch-screen MacBook Pro
- (52:47) - Privacy
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