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Apple Byte - Is the MacBook Pro 13-inch Retina on its way?

2012-08-13
what's crackin Bryan song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple everybody this week it's a short show but it's better than no show it's not like one of you guys is gonna be able to do my job anyways but going on vacation and I'm gonna be lying on a beach with oil all over my body and I do this for you because who've you got a let's hit you with some news everybody and praise the Lord we are not starting off with iPhone news in macbook pro 13-inch retina news a second benchmark for the product labeled MacBook Pro 10 to has surfaced and suggests the model will debut with eight gigs of RAM just like it's bigger 15-inch brothers now the profile of the machine from the latest geekbench scores include a 2.9 gigahertz intel core i7 processor and eight gigs of ram running an unreleased build of OS 10 mountain lion 10.8 point one and yes if you guys are starving like i am for a tidbit of imac and mac pro news internal configuration files found in mount line appear to make references to unreleased versions of the imac and mac pro in the context of both machines having us be booting options now could possibly indicate that the next gen desktops could lack a built-in optical drives but it seems more likely for the imax and not the mac pro if you ask me now the imac is identified as IM 13 oh and the mac pro is MP 60 we also saw a geekbench score for a new imac model back ma but we're still waiting on its official debut you guys you also can't escape iphone use but at least i didn't lead the show with it new screenshots of parts for the dock connector for the cable side have appeared on french website nowhere else FR and indicate 8 pins but the metal frame counts as a grounding pin and that could be the reason for the discrepancy in reporting and images of the purported next gen iphones battery have made it online revealing a thinner higher capacity battery with a new higher voltage of 3.8 volts and a capacity of 1440 milliamp hours which are both improvements from the iphone 4s okay enough the news stories in yeah we know we might miss a big one or two this week because I'm gone but we wanted to dedicate this segment of the show to you the Apple biters by reading our emails all right let's start off with Hannah Ella or liens and she asks what gadgets do you use that aren't made by apple well Miss Hannah I have a PS Vita for my gaming a new cleaner for my e ink reader because I don't read books on my iPad I love love my bose noise canceling headsets i have a canon sd1000 for pictures and one other battery powered device that i cannot talk about in front of children Mike all right Roberto says I'm writing you from the biggest city in the world Mexico City hey amor is it time to get an Apple TV or do you think it's going to have a chain soon please let me know Roberto are you that same guy from that lady gaga song where people are dancing their underwear well it doesn't matter but if you're talking about the little black box from Apple it's a good time to buy but if you're waiting for the potential Apple TV TV I still think it's going to be at least next year alright i love this sweet pic from caleb mal i'm a sucker for pictures that's my twitter pic also follow akash where are you from my mother shawna ass can you tell me when all of apple's products are coming out so i can save up well i'll tell you what to look out for this year we know that mid-september October it's pretty much prime for the new iphone ipod touch and ipod nano I'm still not sold that will see an ipad mini then or a revamped ipad and i still think we'll see a new imac and macbook pro 13-inch retina laptop before the end of this year maybe late October but that's just my gut and mac pros and the new apple TV will be pushed to next year to 2013 now drom asked where do you get that jacket you are wearing not wearing a jacket right now David Becker rights in with hey Brian can I just get a shout out for having a nine-hour jaw surgery and still taking the time to watch a show that's dedication right there by the way my name is David Becker I'm from Sioux City Iowa so can you put that on the name banner when or if you put this on your show next week find David look here I guess you earned it alright guys it's going to do it for this week's show I'm on vacation and I'm coming back a whole lot brown or send your emails to the Apple by to cnet com i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll catch you guys next time go to the bite of the Apple alone what's up guys i'm jason beck and welcome to that'll buy the good and the bad inside yeah
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