{"podcast":{"title":"Cult of Mac","slug":"cult-of-mac-7630056","podcast_index_feed_id":7630056,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/cult-of-mac","website_url":"https://www.cultofmac.com/podcast","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/s0Mt-7zcrhI1pess8U6mqbhlMl8503hp4Rz9CSclxCk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xMjE5/ZTJiZDYyMzdkN2M2/MDA2MThjMGZlYzdh/MDhmYy5wbmc.jpg","author":"Cult of Mac","episode_count":30,"summary":"The official podcast of the long-running Cult of Mac blog. Every week, you’ll get the biggest news stories with our expert analysis and commentary. We’ll also give you a how-to that’ll help you use and understand your devices better. We’ll share and pick apart the most interesting Mac setups. You can send us any weird or technical questions you have. You’ll get our hands-on reviews of the interesting products, accessories and gadgets we try. Our goal is to inform, educate, but most of all, entertain.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T08:17:38.912590+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cult-of-mac-7630056"},"episode":{"title":"Apple turns 50! — and Mac Pro turns dead","slug":"apple-turns-50-and-mac-pro-turns-dead","published_at":"2026-04-02T23:02:55+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cult-of-mac-7630056/apple-turns-50-and-mac-pro-turns-dead","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cult-of-mac-7630056","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/ed568dab","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/prfx.byspotify.com/e/media.transistor.fm/ed568dab/c017b37f.mp3","summary":"This week: Griffin’s first impressions of the AirPods Max 2, we bid farewell to the Mac Pro by honoring a top setup, and our celebration of Apple’s 50th birthday. Watch this episode on YouTube Send us a text with comments, questions, feedback or a video to play on the show: cultofmacpodcast@icloud.com Sponsors: The Cult of Mac Today and Weekender newsletters. Cult of Mac Today is a rundown of the top daily news, plus reviews and how-tos, with commentary by Leander himself. And the Weekender is an easy-to-digest roundup of the week’s top stories. Sign up at newsletters.cultofmac.com . Links: First impressions with AirPods Max AirPods Max 2 are the surprise update to Apple’s premium over-the-ear headphones. Now in feature parity with the regular AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 3, the price makes some kind of sense. Ultimate power: Top 9 Mac Pro setups Truly the stuff of dreams, the top 9 Mac Pro setups from Cult of Mac's archives showcase the Apple flagship desktop's amazing power. Two ‘trash can’ Macs form core of nerdy workstation built to last Apple quietly kills Mac Pro 50 years of the most important Apple products Apple produces plenty of hits, but you don't know them all. These are the most important Apple products of the company's first 50 years. Our first Apple products: How we joined the Cult of Mac Apple's 50th anniversary makes us look back on how we got started using various Macintosh computers decades ago. Here's how it all began.","meta_description":"This week: Griffin’s first impressions of the AirPods Max 2, we bid farewell to the Mac Pro by honoring a top setup, and our celebration of Apple’s 50th b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4146,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cult-of-mac-7630056/episodes/apple-turns-50-and-mac-pro-turns-dead/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cult-of-mac-7630056/apple-turns-50-and-mac-pro-turns-dead.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}