It ’s been a fairly slow news show week in the Mac world . ( Unless you ’re excited about Verizon plunk down $ 4.4 billion for AOL – yes , that AOL.)New betas are outfor Yosemite as well as Io 8.4 , so we discuss how to get an early peep at the next iterations of Apple ’s operating system — and if you ’re better off waiting for the final rendering .

Glenn drop a line a great piece about living with the newfangled unmarried - embrasure 12 - inch MacBook , and his pursuit to find the in force adapter admixture for the most people . ( Do n’t worry — you wo n’t have to judge as many as he did ! ) He ’s been run on the MacBook a ton , in reality , because his other computers have been generate him vast amount of worry , so get the Zea mays everta ready for his sad tales of endless troubleshooting .

Since we lawfully ca n’t podcast without mentioning the Apple Watch , we also discuss how third - party developers are head back to the draught plug-in now that they in reality have sentry , to contrive interface that make better horse sense . Have any Apple Watch apps rocked your earthly concern just yet ?

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