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2020 November Rickies

jbiatek 4th September 2024 at 4:47pm

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Regular	"Apple releases at least 2 different Mac models that run on Apple Silicon"	1
Stephen	Regular	"Big Sur gets a revised release window"	1
Myke	Regular	"An Apple Silicon Mac is available to order in November 2020"	1
Federico	Regular	"The first Apple Silicon chip is a variant of the A14 family"	0
	The M1 could be related, but Apple never said so, and instead say that it was built specifically for the Mac.
Stephen	Regular	"No new Mac announced will have a touchscreen"	1
Myke	Regular	"Apple demos iOS apps running on a Mac"	0

Host	Pick	Score
Federico	Risky	"Big Sur on the new Apple Silicon Macs comes with a low power mode feature"	-1
	This was a feature in Monterey the next year.
Stephen	Risky	"A desktop Apple Silicon Mac is announced"	2
	This pick literally came to Stephen in a dream, in which Tim Cook announced the Mac mini as a "bad little b****".
Myke	Risky	"An Apple Silicon Mac is cheaper than the product it replaces"	2

Host	Pick	Score
Stephen	Flexie	"Phil Schiller is nowhere to be seen"	1
Stephen	Flexie	"We see a Big Sur feature recap"	1
Stephen	Flexie	"We see Johny Srouji again"	1
Stephen	Flexie	"No mention of cellular Macs"	1
Stephen	Flexie	"Apple announces Windows for ARM coming via virtualization in the future"	0
	Parallels was updated to do this by 2021, but it wasn't announced at this event.
Stephen	Flexie	"The 12" MacBook does not return"	1
Myke	Flexie	"New Macs follow current design trends, no large scale redesign"	1
Myke	Flexie	"Big Sur released within 48 hours of event"	1
Myke	Flexie	"New AirPods or AirPods Pro"	0
	Not until October 18, 2021.
Myke	Flexie	"New MagSafe charging case for existing AirPods"	0
	MagSafe came to the AirPods line the next year.
Myke	Flexie	"Craig demos Big Sur features"	1
	The instant wake demo is counted for this.
Federico	Flexie	"Apple compares the performance of Apple Silicon Macs to "most PCs sold today""	1
Federico	Flexie	"Apple demos a game running on an Apple Silicon Mac"	0
Federico	Flexie	"One of the new Mac models supports WiFi 6"	1
Federico	Flexie	"At least one of the Apple Silicon Macs has a Pro Motion display"	0
	Was originally a Risky Pick. ProMotion came to the Mac the next year with the MacBook Pro line.
Federico	Flexie	"Apple redesigns the App Store app for Mac to include iOS, macOS, and iPadOS apps together"	0

Federico donates $75 to Stephen's wife's 5K for Eden's Run.