Marco Arment

chips and entire computers that were originally designed and built and planned for a product that never shipped or shipped in a different form and just ended up being repurposed so you know things happen but this gets back to what we're talking about with the uh the soic mh chiplet architecture thing for the m5 pro and m5 max where there's separate dies for the cpu and gpu it's like well

Now that they've got this chiplet architecture, they can mix and match all sorts of stuff.

And they're like, no, that's not how we do it.

Yes, we will mix and match things, but only in the specific ratios, the specific combinations that we know we need for our specific products that we're planning this for.

So again, don't expect a pop-up menu on the Apple configurator where you get to choose the CPU cores and choose the GPU cores beyond the typical like binning and sliced up into pieces options that we get today.

Multilink operation, I think.

So to describe this product, it's kind of like a I don't know how you would describe it.

It's bigger than a phone.

It's kind of like a, you know, maybe four inch, three and a half inch by three and a half inch by one inch USB-C rectangle.

that you plug in and it's got like a lid that kind of opens like a laptop lid and that's the antenna and it's like it's basically saying your laptop's wi-fi can't do this your mac's wi-fi can't do this whatever you have can't do this because nobody seems to ship uh simultaneous mlo wi-fi 7 clients but we have a box that will do it plug this box into your wireless device stop using the wireless radio that's in your device

and instead have your device through this USB-C connection use our box and we'll do the Wi-Fi for you.

And it's one of the clunkiest things I've seen since the trackballs that would clip onto the side of a laptop really compromises the portability of your portable device.

But if you absolutely positively need to have simultaneous MLO because it's the only thing that can provide you that extra bit of bandwidth and lower latency that you desire, apparently Ubiquiti will sell you this thing.

Oh, it's like an Apple TV, actually.

Yeah, there's a couple other things in the article as well, talking about how Ubiquity did actually cut off direct sales to Russia when they invaded and all this other stuff or whatever.

But here's the thing.

One of the reasons this has been in the notes forever and hasn't even made it into overtime is because as soon as the story came out, I added it to the document and I'm like, oh, I'll just let that... It didn't make it in time for a show, but by next week, I'm sure we'll have more stories and I can add more links to it.

And there just weren't any.

And every time someone brought it up, I would say, where did you hear about this?

And they would tell me, and every single source was always pointing back to this Hunterbrook.