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Nov 2020
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307: Lamb Biryani (Shot on iPhone)

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Special guest Henry T. Casey comes on the show to give us his hands-on impressions of the MacBook Air with the new M1 chip! Things look...dare we say… promising? We also went hands-on with the PlayStation 5, and chat about… Fleets!

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Guest Starring:

Henry T. Casey

Links and Show Notes:

Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership
MacBook Air with M1 review: A computing revolution | Tom's Guide
M1 MacBook Review + Mac Mini - YouTube
4K Video Editing on the NEW M1 MacBook (Resolve & Premiere, rendering/timeline scrubbing etc.) - YouTube
PS5 review: a hardworking beefcake - Polygon
Twitter fleets: users not notified when their tweets are reposted - Insider
‎Networked: The 5G Future on Apple Podcasts
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