Apple turns 50! — and Mac Pro turns dead

About this episode

The episode celebrates Apple's 50th birthday while bidding farewell to the Mac Pro and discussing the AirPods Max 2.

This week: Griffin’s first impressions of the AirPods Max 2, we bid farewell to the Mac Pro by honoring a top setup, and our celebration of Apple’s 50th birthday. Watch this episode on YouTube Send us a text with comments, questions, feedback or a video to play on the show: cultofmacpodcast@icloud.com Sponsors: The Cult of Mac Today and Weekender newsletters. Cult of Mac Today is a rundown of the top daily news, plus reviews and how-tos, with commentary by Leander himself. And the Weekender is an easy-to-digest roundup of the week’s top stories. Sign up at newsletters.cultofmac.com . Links: First impressions with AirPods Max AirPods Max 2 are the surprise update to Apple’s premium over-the-ear headphones. Now in feature parity with the regular AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 3, the price makes some kind of sense. Ultimate power: Top 9 Mac Pro setups Truly the stuff of dreams, the top 9 Mac Pro setups from Cult of Mac's archives showcase the Apple flagship desktop's amazing power. Two ‘trash can’ Macs form core of nerdy workstation built to last Apple quietly kills Mac Pro 50 years of the most important Apple products Apple produces plenty of hits, but you don't know them all. These are…

People in this episode

Host: Griffin

Topics covered

• Apple's 50th anniversary
• AirPods Max 2
• Mac Pro farewell
• technology news
• product reviews

Keywords

• Apple
• AirPods Max 2
• Mac Pro
• 50th anniversary
• technology news
• product reviews

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Mentioned in this episode

Products: AirPods Max 2, Mac Pro

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