TEH 234: Apple’s New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation

In This Episode: Apple’s New Macs and Minis. Perplexing conundrums with perplexity.ai, and Social Media Misinformation

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 00:00 GR – New Apple products and features announced gradually.

  • New iMac, new Mac mini, new Macbook Pro. + Apple intelligence
  • Proof reading and re-writing
  • Image generation to come
  • 6:00 Records phone calls, and creates transcript
  •  iOS 18.1
•  8:20 Hardware. Lots of ports, multiple screens
  • 16 Gigs of RAM.
  • 9:50 Mac Mini
  • 13:20 Upgrade storage now, avoid future issues
  • 16:15 I use MacBook Air without limitations
  • 18:00 LN – Virtual machines
  • 20:00 Macbook Pro
  • 22:20 Numeric keypad used for video editing shortcuts
• 29:43 LN – The existential dilemma that is perplexity.ai. Perplexity efficiently answers varied questions effectively.
  • 33:23 Is it the end of innovation? Cycles mirror blogging’s rise and fall
• 41:15 LN – The newest AI slop on Facebook exploits suburban fear
  • Being even more skeptical in an AI world
  • Rage bait evokes skepticism in AI era.
  • 44:16 You can ignore unverified information online.
• 49:00 GR – Archive.org. The death of a video podcast feed. 

Ain’t it Cool

• 54:00 LN: Rivals on Hulu. Guilty pleasure. Rich folk in the UK in the 1980’s. (David Tennant)
• 55:00 GR: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 58:00 LN: Ask Leo! and Facebook 
  • And, super-secret-you-heard-it-here-first:
  • https://www.youtube.com/@AskLeoShorts/shorts (scary)
• 1:02:00 GR: What’s New In macOS Sequoia 15.1 https://macmost.com/whats-new-in-macos-sequoia-15-1.html