How much MacBook is enough MacBook? | The Vergecast

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz discuss the Apple Macbook Air M3 review, Jon Stewart's take on AI, and a whole lot more of this week's tech news.

00:00 - Intro
06:45 - MacBook Air M3 review
23:28 - LG Suitcase TV review
27:45 - Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers
38:08 - Microsoft working on Xbox AI chatbot
40:43 - Samsung Bixby is not dead y'all
47:04 - Jon Stewart calls out Apple
53:07 - Europe’s alternative iPhone app stores
58:09 - TikTok without the algorithm?
1:02:35 - FCC vote on Net Neutrality
1:08:40 - X gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for
1:15:23 - Spotify price increase
1:18:58 - OpenAI's new voice clone model
1:23:22 - Google Podcasts is dead

[smithskyes]

Also thanks producer Liam for the chapters

[tayjn]

Nilay, David, AND the Heinecube in the studio at the same time!

[smithskyes]

Thanks everyone. Love having all their verge content together

[Digosaurus]

David is right
Base spec MacBook Air is fine for most people..
I am one of those people.

[brucebanksshow]

Nilay hit the nail on the head with the Google Home complaint. It is so frustrating how that product has not gotten better or it feels like it has gotten worse.

[Smellythief]

Love that I'm watching this in one window with David saying emulators will never be allowed in the App Store, while in another Window i just read a story about Apple allowing emulators. So trippy.

[incee_netinai]

David has the most insane take with the 8GB

[chidorirasenganz]

I think the reason they are selling 3 different design generations of the mac is the same reason they are doing it with the iPads and iPhones. They own the entire product stack and aren’t being held up by Intel

[amr]

Finally David makes it to the office 😬😛

[DurrellRandle]

I think a better solution to the suitcase TV is big tablets with a USB C in port

[A_Noid]

I think David is right about the 8gb thing. For someone reading The Verge, yeah, they might be annoyed by the performance limitations of 8gb of ram in a Macbook. For the majority of people buying Macbook airs, yeah, they wouldn’t notice or care, and they’d be better off saving $200+tax.

[MihneaStoian]

My wife has a base 8GB/256GB M1 Air and it doesn't skip a beat. She's an office and Google apps user, with the apps open and 50+ tabs on chrome. Very impressed with its performance. Don't see a point to upgrade it.

[dn]

David needs to Pepsi Challenge everyone on casual use of the 8GB/256GB vs. a higher spec'd options.

[tstartrekdude]

Casual users have more tabs open then tech people.

Also, Paul.

[bistose]

1:17:33
David, Since there's remixes and all that, "All of the music on earth " is available to you only on YouTube music, not Spotify :D

[trevozneoma]

I've noticed Nilay fidgets with his phone a lot, often rubbing the back and I gotta know...is that a Finewoven case!? For the record I also fidget with my phone in the same way which is probably why I noticed it.

[AbhishekBiswas]

Researched a lot on whether to get MBAir or M3 MBPro or M3 Pro MBPro. Finally made the best decision to get Apple certified refurbished 15inch M2 MBAir with 24GB Ram, 1 TB RAM at the most competitive price for a Macbook

[ToddHoff]

One thing to consider, is over time, your System Data can mysteriously become over 200GB all by itself. I'd go with bigger storage too, unless you plan to fresh install frequently.

[kemistrypops]

Pocket cast don't allow the option to switch between video and audio podcasts. If it does, can someone tell me how to?

[Chris_Hruska]

the question is why does 1 tab take 200MB just to display a single photo?