682: Medium Core

• Pre-show: Casey brings us back • to Anniversary Corner

Related episode of ATP

• 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 • )

H17S • is 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

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

• Fusion architecture (via Frederic_Orange • )

• MacBook Pro Storage pricing (via Richard Allen)

• MacBook keyboard glyphs (via Dan Moren • )

• Environmental progress (via Andrew Leahey • )

TOSTracker Example individual comparison

• 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 Kevin Sliech • )

• Superwide viewing angle

• Timing controller (TCON)

• Calibration

• Display optimization modes

Formula 1 news •

Drive to Survive • (Apple TV link)

Dad jokey-est promo video • (Also on YouTube • )

2026 season preview F1TV • vs. Apple TV

Link accounts

Romain Grosjean’s

Samsung Galaxy S26 Privacy Display •

MKBHD The Verge

• Post-show: Marco’s Garmin • adventures

Great Saunter Injinji toe socks Altra Torin 8 wide shoes Garmin Venu 4 41mm Garmin Forerunner 570 Garmin Fenix 8 Suunto Race S WorkOutDoors Pedometer++

Members-only • ATP Overtime: The future of x86_64 • on macOS

Tahoe 26.4 warnings Slightly more detail from Ars Technica

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