46: A Compromised Machine

• Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades, and the benefits of only using stock Apple parts.
• Scoring Apple's performance on John's 2013 to-do list.
• Concerns about Apple's recent Mac apps, including iWork '13 and Messages/iMessage.
• AnandTech's Mac Pro review.
• The Mac Pro's 4K/Retina monitor situation.
• The iMac vs. the Mac Pro, and the hardware needs of developers.
• Why do John and Marco care so much about Retina?
• What the next big computer-hardware shift may be.
• After-show: our future as old men, saturating USB 3, and the often-neglected Mac Mini.

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