Touchscreen MacBook Pro and Amazon's New Alexa+ Echo Lineup: Who Are They For?
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Touchscreen MacBook Pro and Amazon's New Alexa+ Echo Lineup: Who Are They For?

B1IntermediateOctober 29, 202656 min
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Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro and Amazon's new Alexa+ devices arrived in the same week. Steven Scott and Shaun Preece go through the Echo Dot, Echo Time, Alexa Photo Frame, Echo Studio with Home Camera and Echo Show 16, and ask who these expensive gadgets are really for, including blind and low vision users. Tech keeps getting more expensive. RAM and hard drive costs are pushing a decent laptop toward $3,000, and Apple's new 14 and 16 inch MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR touch display starts at $2,899 in the US. It comes with M5 Pro and M5 Max chips and a...

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Apple launch new things! Amazon launch new things! It's a new things show! This is Double Tap, where blind people talk tech. Here's Steven Scott and Sean Preece. Ooh, new things! Ooh! Ooh, new things!

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Shiny beautiful things, are they Steven Scott? shiny, expensive things, I think. Pretty much everything nowadays you buy seems to be doubling in price.

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It's great standard price of a laptop now. $3,000. Hooray. And that's not just an Apple thing, by the way.

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