The episode covers The Sims franchise status, explores whether hardware colors influence buying choices, examines Apple's new pricing strategy with iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo, and evaluates the Studio Display XDR's value proposition in the current market.
The $499 price point makes cheap Windows PCs and Chromebooks much harder to justify. Plus, the Neo isn't the only Apple product that can offer some savings. The new iPad M4 Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air are also available with educational savings.
The latter is a higher-end model aimed at content creators with a 27-inch 5K Retina XDR display that features a mini-LED display with 2,000-plus dimming zones, up to 2,000 nits of peak HDR brightness and a wider color gamut for improved accuracy. It also has a 120Hz refresh rate, addressing complaints about the relatively anemic 60Hz refresh rate of previous models.
Apple had already announced in January that Google's Gemini AI models would help power the upgraded version of Siri it delayed last year, but The Information's report indicates Apple might lean even more on Google so it can catch up in AI.
Stop Tahoe Update is a tiny script that persuades macOS to stop urging you to upgrade to macOS 26. Rather than any scary low-level hackery, it merely installs an even tinier custom profile that tells macOS a little white lie: your Mac is controlled by an organizational policy forbidding version upgrades.
