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MacVoices Live! #26242 – Apple Layoffs, On-Device LLMs, and Walmart Blinks

By: Chuck
27 August 2026 at 23:57
Apple’s layoffs across Siri, AI, Vision Pro, and software teams sparks discussions about shifting priorities, institutional knowledge, and the future of spatial computing. The MacVoices Live! panel also debates the privacy implications of ChatGPT remembering Mac activity, the advantages of on-device AI, and Walmart’s long-overdue decision to embrace Apple Pay and NFC payments. The panel […]

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MacVoices #26241: Live! – New M5 Ultra Mac Studio, M6 Mac mini, and Glyph Keyboards

By: Chuck
26 August 2026 at 21:42
Apple’s new Mac mini and Mac Studio spark a discussion of the M6 and M5 Ultra chips and how they measure up in performance and Β upgrade decisions. The panel weighs Mac Studio trade-ins, Mac mini value, on-device AI and large language models, and Apple’s increasingly powerful silicon. They also examine the move to 2-nanometer technology and debate Apple’s redesigned keyboards and glyph-only modifier keys.

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MacVoices #26209: Apple Stock Recovers, iCloud Is Required, and More iPhone Foldables

By: Chuck
15 July 2026 at 00:08
Apple’s stock rebounds after recent product price increases, prompting a discussion of customer loyalty, upgrade timing, refurbished options, and long-term confidence in the company. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius also examine why advanced Home features may require a 2TB iCloud+ plan, then debates Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone, including price, […]

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Restoring a Macintosh Plus and Convincing It to Work With BlueSCSI

8 August 2026 at 17:12

Many more years ago than I care to admit, I took a C programming class in college. The computers in the university labs were all Macintosh Pluses, and nearly all of them had a single floppy drive. Β  (Photo for illustration: Tomas Martinez – Macintosh Plus with an external Hard Drive – URL) Stepping into […]

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