Engadget Podcast: The Mac turns 40

Apple’s Mac just turned 40 years old! This week, Devindra chats with Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham about his Mac retrospective. We focus on how much has changed since Apple’s disastrous 2016 lineup, why the Apple Silicon chips feel so revolutionary, and look back at our earliest Mac experiences. Also, we review the Framework Laptop 16, a wonderfully modular miracle of a laptop, but one that we wish had more graphics power for gaming. (But hey, at least you can replace the GPU eventually!).


Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News!

Topics

  • Framework Laptop 16 review: Amazingly modular, but not so great at gaming – 1:17

  • The Mac turns 40 – 19:27

  • More tech layoffs at Blizzard/Activision, Riot, eBay and others – 49:58

  • Apple’s Car concept is allegedly still alive – 52:44

  • Apple overhauls App Store rules in response to European Union regulation – 58:25

  • Working on – 1:09:30

  • Pop culture picks – 1:13:40

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Credits
Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Nathan Ingraham
Producer: Ben Ellman
Music: Dale North and Terrence O'Brien

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