Accidental Tech Podcast 680 Covers Mac mini US Production, IKEA's Matter Push and Mac Autosave History

The most newsworthy item in this week's Accidental Tech Podcast episode, titled "A Lot of Holes in That Cheese," is that Apple will manufacture some Mac minis in the United States. The hosts also flagged a MacRumors roundup that lays out the limitations of Apple's low-cost MacBook, and they touched on a Wall Street Journal video and accompanying article that looked at the same kind of manufacturing story.

On the smart home side, IKEA announced Matter-over-Thread support, a move that brings its devices onto the cross-vendor Matter standard using the Thread mesh network. The show notes name three new products: the KLIPPBOK leak sensor, the BILRESA remote control and the MYGGSPRAY motion sensor.

The episode also covered a macOS annoyance. Some users of the newest Tahoe release have found the window edges hard to grab for resizing. The workaround shared by a listener is to run "defaults write -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize 8" in Terminal to widen the resize zone, and "defaults delete -g AppleEdgeResizeExteriorSize" to undo it. A related tip covers Save As, which can be restored by adding a keyboard shortcut in System Settings and assigning it to Command-Shift-S.

Finally, the hosts dug into the history of document autosave on the Mac. Their conclusion is that the document model behind modern autosave was introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 and was already noted in the 10.8 review. Listeners pointed to Final Cut Pro X, which autosaves, and to Microsoft Office 365, which autosaves to OneDrive on Windows.