This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: The primary benchmarks for the M4 Professional and M4 Max MacBook Professionals are available amazingly good. And early critiques from the “entry media” rave in regards to the new Apple laptops, too. (What else did you anticipate?)

It is perhaps time for Erfon’s long-overdue improve.

Additionally on The CultCast:

• There’s another excuse you can purchase an M4 laptop computer fairly than ready for subsequent 12 months’s mannequin.
• iOS 18.2 is nearly right here, and Griffin runs down all of the thrilling new options it brings.
• The subsequent iPhone might include much more customized Apple {hardware} inside.
• And at last … Erfon truly acquired his fingers on the digital camera he’s been ready without end to obtain. His first impressions are … blended.

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This week’s prime Apple information

On the present this week: Your host Erfon Elijah (@erfon), Cult of Mac managing editor Lewis Wallace (@lewiswallace) and Cult of Mac author D. Griffin Jones (@dgriffinjones).

Listed here are the headlines we’re speaking about on this week’s present:

Underneath Overview

Fujifilm X100VI: Erfon lastly obtained the digital camera he ordered months in the past. Sadly, his first impressions of the Fujifilm X100VI are a blended bag.