The public betas of xOS 27 are now available. In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we talk about our first impressions of the features, Siri AI, and more. 

This is episode 992 with Michael Simon, Jason Cross, and Roman Loyola. 

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• macOS 27 has a secret popover menu for AI power users
• All of a sudden, Apple is winning AI 
• The new Siri is ChatGPT for people who hate AI 
• Siri AI is both impressive and disappointing 
• I’m using macOS Golden Gate’s Siri on the MacBook Neo
• Siri AI and Apple Intelligence: Do you need to buy a new iPhone, iPad, or Mac? 
• Meet the iBook

Comment Corner

I am not running any of the betas and I am hoping Apple has fixed some of the things I feel are worthy of fixing, and made some changes to unify the UI’s between the OS’s. Especially since Apple is promoting the new OS as mostly correcting issues. 

David H. via email

Who’s a semi-retired professional engineer and has a long history with the Mac and Apple, had a bunch of comments about Apple software he wanted to get off his chest. His email was lengthy and we don’t have time to cover everything he wrote, but thank you George for writing, and we have some responses to parts of his email. 

George H. via email

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