682: Medium Core
Accidental Tech Podcast | Mar 12 2026 | 02:16:48
- Pre-show: Casey brings us back to Anniversary Corner
- Follow-up:
- An explanation for John’s post that broke containment (via Thomas Dickson)
- MacBook Neo
- John’s theory about color & clamshells
- The M1 MacBook Air was American Walmarts only. (via Pierre-Luc Gagné)
- Aside also via P-L: does the Neo run Rosetta 2?
- MacBook Neo inputs 🤝 iPad Air inputs (via Andrew Larson)
- SSD speeds (via The Verge)
- The logo
- iPhone 5 intro video is what John was thinking of (via Peter Puleio)
- Jason’s review
- Dave2D’s review
- Teardown
- Tyler Stalman on the Neo running “pro” apps
- Performance Cores vs. Super Cores
- New in Xcode 24.6β3:
CPUFAMILY_ARM_SOTRA(H17S) (via Brendan Shanks)H17Sis the missing M5 Pro identifier from iOS 26.3 RC
- Quinn’s review
- M5 Pro & Max are on N3P; M5 is N3E
- Baidu leakers
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- 4.61 GHz
- 10-wide decoding
- Performance cores (“M-Core”)
- 4.38 GHz
- 7-wide decoding
- ~70% the performance of a Super Core
- Dual operating mode from efficiency cores
- Efficiency cores (“E-Core”)
- 3.05 GHz
- 6-wide decoding
- Super cores (“P-Core”)
- Andrew Cunningham at Ars
- L2 cache
- Super: 16 MB
- Performance: 8 MB
- Efficiency: 6MB
- Minimum clock speed:
- Super: 1,308 MHz
- Performance: 1,344 MHz
- Efficiency: 972 MHz
- L2 cache
- Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange)
- New in Xcode 24.6β3:
- MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)
- MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren)
- Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey)
- Third-party displays (via Dan Boyle)
- Pro Display XDR or Studio Display XDR? (asked by Imthaz)
- Studio Display XDR
- UFO Test
- MKBHD’s review states it has 12 GB RAM 🤭
- Studio Display XDR white paper (PDF) (via