Accidental Tech Podcast

270: Three Major Zippers


Backpacks:
<a href="https://www.peakdesign.com/everyday-backpack">Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L</a>
<a href="https://www.tombihn.com/collections/backpacks/products/synapse-25">Tom Bihn Synapse 25</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/chasereeves">Chase Reeves on YouTube</a> and <a href="http://bagworks.co/">on the web</a>
<a href="https://www.tombihn.com/products/cache">Tom Bihn Cache</a>
<a href="https://www.tombihn.com/products/cadet">Tom Bihn Cadet</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.caseyliss.com/2015/8/23/tom-bihn-cadet">Casey's review</a>


<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/apple-s-stumbling-homepod-isn-t-the-hot-seller-company-wanted">HomePod sales look bad</a>
<a href="http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/design/cloudflare-bets-arm-servers-it-expands-its-data-center-network">CloudFlare goes ARM</a>
When was Apple's heyday?
<a href="https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever">The best laptop ever made</a>
<a href="https://www.relay.fm/topfour">Top Four</a>
<a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/128/">Robot or Not #128: The Midwest</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Nano#1st_generation">iPod Nano, 1st Generation</a>


#askatp
What if the Apple Mac CPU is neither <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture">ARM</a> nor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86">x86</a>? (via Colin McKellar)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture">Instruction set architecture (ISA)</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360">IBM System/360</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD">SIMD instructions</a>


Cribbing cooling from the iMac Pro for future not-Pro iMacs (via <a href="https://twitter.com/snourseman/status/984417591233011712">Scott Nourse</a>)
How would Apple have treated the Mac Pro and Mac Mini in years past? (via <a href="https://twitter.com/nalexander50/status/981970042345672704">Nick Alexander</a>)


Post-show: Topics we don't feel we need to cover

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Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.