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This week Marques and Andrew discuss the new M2 MacBook Pro and try to figure out who exactly should buy it. After that, they dig go deep on the Nothing Phone 1 before finishing up with a new EV announcement that may or not be real. Plus, there's some good trivia in this one too so hopefully you're playing along and keeping score! Links: Rene Ritchie M2 Macbook Pro review: https://bit.ly/3HRelcs Nothing Phone video: https://bit.ly/3zXsUtn Verge M2 Macbook Pro article: https://bit.ly/3QFbQhL Lightyear Solar car: https://lightyear.one/ Twitters: https://twitter.com/wvfrm https://twitter.com/mkbhd https://twitter.com/andymanganelli https://twitter.com/adamlukas17 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wvfrmpodcast/ Shop the merch: shop.mkbhd.com Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this Hasty Treat, Wes and Scott talk about their new Apple MacBook Pro's with the M1 Max CPU.

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Show Notes

• 04:30 The last time we upgraded
• 07:05 Initial thoughts on new MacBook Pro
• Apple MacBook Pro
• 09:23 How much RAM you might need
• 11:33 M1 Pro or M1 Max?
• 12:37 Justification as a business expense
• Figma
• Sketch
• We recently found that the new 2021 M1 MacBooks cut our Android build times in half.
• VS Code
• Microsoft releases M1-native Visual Studio Code for developing apps
• Notion
• Height
• Sublime Text
• 14:52 Shortening the feedback cycle
• 15:57 Using VS Code
• 21:20 Video editing on M1 MacBook Pro
• Mkbhd - M1 Macbook Pro review
• Synology
• Syntax.fm Ep220 The Synology Show
• Recut
• Davinci Resolve
• 24:27 Screenflow export comparison
• Screenflow
• 29:32 VS Code improvements
• SWC
• pnpm
• 32:57 The tools are no longer the bottleneck
• 33:37 Hardware upgrades
• 34:10 The notch
• Bartender
• 36:11 macOS icons have more padding
• 37:03 Charging and battery
• TS3 Plus
• 38:32 Fans and heat
• 39:18 Touch bar is gone
• 39:36 External displays
• 41:03 Battery
• 41:54 LG Display issue
• 42:51 Touch ID reader in a better spot
• 43:25 What's happening to your old MacBook Pro?
• 45:21 Ports and keyboards

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