Hello and goodbye to the MacBook Air | The Vergecast

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple's upgraded MacBook Air, the EU's Digital Markets Act deadline for tech’s biggest “gatekeepers”, and a bunch of tech news from this week.
Further reading:
www.theverge.com/2024/3/7/240...
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Apple releases M3 MacBook Airs
38:10 - What is the Eurozone?
39:10 - DMA goes into effect
1:12:26 - Apple Podcasts transcriptions
1:13:15 - Emulating Nintendo
1:20:19 - Lenovo Legion Go
1:22:33 - Elon Musk sues OpenAI
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[@tayjn]

Main Vergecast on a Thursday has ruined my perception of time

[@welp1249]

SAME 🤣

[@erikalexanderwerner]

Yup!

[@MorbidGod391]

You never had a perception of time. That was an allusion to.

[@DennyLewis]

Split second I was was happy it was Friday, but ill take a Thursday vergecast too

[@Teddward]

I actually had to go check my calendar to make sure it wasn’t Friday😂

[@PatSheerin]

Listening to podcast here is so much better as sick of all the ad breaks when listening as a vanilla podcast. Another reason to keep KZbin premium

[@GordonChaffin]

I love segments where Nilay explains the Law. It should be a recurring segment.

[@DaneDavenport]

David and Alex's glee over Nilay sliding into rageful nihilistic hostility towards tech, politics, and life is better than any sitcom.

[@BoyanNovakov]

The Euro-themed theme park is called Mini Europe and is located in Brussels, Belgium... It's also part of the Eurozone...

[@chuppified]

Nilay is feeling vertically interlaced today. 😊

[@dawn_28]

Hey can you guys do a review on the new Dell XPS 16 and 14 I'm curious on how it stacks up against the other competitors

[@RichardStroffolino]

Thank you David for mentioning MacWhisper. Sooooo good

[@joshjames3482]

Early Vergecast?? Happy birthday to me!

[@Aaron-cg7dy]

legit hbd? or just sayin?

[@j_lucky5023]

Keep up the great work Nilay.

[@ROBERTDAVis2271]

Great video 👍🏿

[@ahkeen]

I definitely pulled over to the side of the road the see the decorative plate.

[@trash_the_place]

Nice MacWhisper shout-out

[@thor.mukbang]

The 13" MacBook Pro was so much more popular than the Air in some markets. I almost never saw anyone buy the Air over the 13" Pro

[@Dale_Dobak]

wow do I miss the old days of the vergecast. we need a happy hour vergecast with the original crew, so much more open minded

[@VaiRostampour]

I would pay apple £100 to enable the clamshell dual monitor mode on my M1 MBA. I have a dual 4K monitor setup that I wish I could use with my MacBook. At this rate it’s more cost efficient for me to buy a dedicated dual monitor capable M2 Mac Mini for £649 as opposed to upgrading to an M3 MBA.

[@Mambo56783]

We bought a Mac Book Air M2 just a couple of weeks ago for a new employee and could not believe that you cannot use two monitors with it. Tried everything to get around it but there simply is no way. For a non Mac user it really is often suprising to find such obvious and unnessecary limitations that apperently are just normal for Apple users.

[@unCoopervised]

One hypocritical thing that Apple does is spout How much do they care about our safety and security and at the same time they require my bank to send me a login code via SMS, an old insecure protocol, instead of adopting RCS.

[@paipure]

Capcut on Mac is awesome

[@rohithramesh9204]

I genuinely lost it at 15:14 , lol

[@CodyMichel]

What the bleep? Since when is this podcast censored?

[@leedaq7767]

so i cannot use 2monitors wit the laptop open? WTF???????????????????????????

[@newfnshow031]

the MacBook air doesn't have the same display as the MacBook pro. That liquid xdr and higher brightness is a big improvement

[@ZsoltVajda]

who knew Walt Mossberg would resort a shotgun type approach to tackle the MacBook Air problem

[@thomasraven]

"There's nothing to say about the new Macbook Air." Proceeds to say things about it for 30+ minutes.

[@expectationlost]

could nilay not frame his shot proper for all wood wall

[@MattSwain1]

There’s another opportunity for a graph without numbers with the MacBook Air, with the Y-axis being how good they are at AI and the X-axis being a random selection of old Intel powered netbooks plus a M3 Air out on it’s own 😂

[@vikkivenuzz]

capcut on Mac is not a bad idea, specially for those that don't wanna pay hundreds on Final Cut Pro etc

[@gvetech]

You guys are SPOT ON!!!

[@ajemohaltom3560]

Nice conversation on emulators. There is a genuine business case for unifying all of the odd consoles of old on to a single device. Emulation seems to be the only way to do that. If a small one-time fee could be paid for all the games on a legacy console, I would pay it... but for sure emulating the new stuff is bad when the original hardware is still being manufactured/supported.

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

God I'm sick of hearing every tech company throw out "AI" constantly...

[@qill.mp3]

47:32 Euro-doubloons !!!

[@joediaz_sux]

CapCut on Mac is actually pretty good, just saying!

[@lizzam]

1:11:29 I do hope in the Brower choice screen more people will select browsers other than Safari. Safari is now the Internet Explorer of web development with their weird behaviors.

[@caityberger2404]

the answer to who is using capcut on macbooks: college student tiktokers (i.e both my younger sisters 😂)

[@tstartrekdude]

Paul

[@PortfolioPL]

Still no OLED screen. Wow.

[@Adaobieistyping]

we don't want old screen

[@eddolous]

Bring back ross miller and Adrian Jeffries

[@maxmouse3]

All of this Apple's malicious compliance, specially against webapps and epic is making me switch to Android and off the mac for my personal devices for the first time since 2010. :( That and the fight against repairs and prices. :(

[@premprakash2297]

256GB IS THE NEW DEFAULT

[@jongalloway726]

why does the verge hate apple so much? :)

[@BrianSinai]

I thought they were going to discuss the new MacBook Air but I appear to have stumbled upon a Monster Sarcasm Rally. Oh well. Never mind.

[@trash_the_place]

They never talk about anything.

[@smithskyes]

What day is it? Oh right it’s the SMEG Frame TV lightening round day.

[@weeue]

OMG what happened to their moral compass.

[@FrankieBeanss]

Apple is techs ELI5 +BS because people that don't know better will just wow

[@dbbgba]

I don’t understand, seems like this guys don’t like apple but they all have apple laptops?

[@DougDmazzone]

I’m unnecessarily hard on companies and products I enjoy. I imagine lots of others are the same, we paid our dues after all…

[@bensims7518]

Yeah these podcasts are annoyingly critical. It’s essential an hour plus of taking the piss but in an unfunny way

[@Aaron-cg7dy]

​@@bensims7518Heh, they work for a website that does tech product reviews... their job is literally to be critical of tech products. Also, I laugh a whole lot at the Vergecast... sorry you don't.

[@Lunnzies]

Literally 20 minutes of you complaining about Apple press releases. Ironic considering the articles you write. It would have been nice if you actually talked about the product.

[@moralesjrangel]

Seriously unwatchable…the sarcastic jokes are terrible.