687: You Can Bend This Line
Ads in Apple Maps, copyright of AI output, and a short supply of flawed chips.
- Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco
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- Follow-up:
- Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen)
- The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg)
- Is Apple running out of A18 Pros‽ 😱
- Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor)
- Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes)
- See also:
- Ads are coming to Apple Maps
- AI-generated code & copyright
- Ask ATP:
- 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)
- 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
- Thunderbolt 5
- 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
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