MacBook Pro with PROLED review, new iPad mini hands-on, and iOS 27.3 features

It’s another bumper week, with Chance’s hands-on reviews of both the new iPad mini and the new MacBook Pro to discuss, especially around just how good the OLED display looks, and how touchscreens fit into the Mac ecosystem. Also, iOS 27.3 is packed with a bunch of new features, including updates to Safari, Siri AI, StandBy and more, and the new audio recap features are now testable on Apple Watch.

And in Happy Hour Plus, we talk about John Ternus’s first time hosting Apple’s quarterly earnings call.

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