TRANSCRIPT · Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds

## Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds (Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2299925/apples-redesigned-macbook-pro-has-an-oled-touchscreen-weighs-just-three-pounds/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Apple's new MacBook Pro has a touchscreen and the highest launch price yet, so we asked the street.
GRANT BRICKMAN: We first told you Saturday that a touchscreen MacBook Pro was expected. Now Apple has announced it, so we asked the street.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For viewers just joining: Engadget says the 14-inch starts at $2,899 and the 16-inch at $3,399, a record launch price for a MacBook Pro.
KAI: Huge launch day! OLED touchscreen, three pounds for the 14-inch. Folks, is it worth the money?
PASSERBY: Three pounds is lovely. The price is the part that feels heavy.
PASSERBY: The Apple on the back lights up. Finally a laptop that looks proud of what it costs.
KAI: Huge opinions out here. Mine: touchscreen fine, but I still want a clicky keyboard and a USB-C port per hand.
PASSERBY: Engadget says the name could be better. I'd call it Invoice.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A touchscreen on a laptop? Like the teletext page, Greta. You press a number and hope.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Apple calls it the MacBook Pro with ProLED XDR, with an M5 Pro or M5 Max chip. Engadget says the name could be more distinctive.

## Star Trek: Celebrating the Scene-Chewing Genius of William Shatner (Den of Geek)
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-trek-celebrating-scene-chewing-genius-william-shatner/
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Den of Geek says it's high time we respected William Shatner's famous pause.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Den of Geek says William Shatner deserves respect as the ideal Star Trek actor, precisely because he is so over-the-top.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A long pause, Greta? In my day we called that a technical difficulty.
ROXY: Roxy Reel, cinema lobby, scarf on, tissues ready. The piece starts at the end of Wrath of Khan, with Kirk's words to the crew.
ROXY: It's the pause before the word human, and the face he twists, that the article says make this excellent melodramatic acting.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Roxy, we are out of time. Nobody hold a pause.
ROXY: Understood. Five reels out of five for the pause, and no spoilers: Kirk says the word. Eventually.
ROXY: The article says years of ridicule followed, and it notes John Belushi milking those pauses as Kirk on SNL in 1976.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The writer adds it's hard to say where his reputation went sour. The argument is: it's high time we recognize it as acting.
GRANT BRICKMAN: I have always said so, Greta. I invented the dramatic pause on this very desk.

## Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Three quick headlines in about half a minute.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe handles 40 languages, and every one of them has an um.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Reactor on VisionQuest: Ultron did have a bride in the comics. Even robots get a plus-one.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Probably Stolen is a cyberpunk sim about running a kiosk on a shady space station. Receipts: probably not.

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