Enlarge / The 2022 iPad Air. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple’s latest iPad refresh is minor on the surface, but there’s a big step forward inside. The new iPad Air flow refresh is mainly about two things: the M1 chip and 5G. Apart from those changes, the new tablet is very similar to its 2020 predecessor. […]
Enlarge / Inside the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s headquarters. (credit: Samuel Axon) On March 8, Apple will stream its first product unveiling event since October. While the unveiling likely won’t be as bombastic as the huge fall events last year, there’s a real possibility that more (and more exciting) products will be introduced next […]
Enlarge / The 2020 iPhone SE. (credit: Samuel Axon) It doesn’t seem like that long ago that Apple announced a plethora of new iPhone, Apple Watch, and MacBook Pro computers, but we’re likely now just a couple of months away from another product unveiling event from the company. The Internet is spinning with wild speculation […]
Enlarge / The 2021 MacBook Pro needs an emulator to run Dropbox’s app. (credit: Samuel Axon) A recently released beta version of Dropbox’s app for macOS has added support for Apple Silicon in the current MacBook Air , MacBook Pro , 24-inch iMac , and Mac Mini . The release is the first step toward […]
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019. (credit: Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Jeff Wilcox, Apple’s director of Mac system architecture who oversaw much of the Apple Silicon transition, has left Apple to join Intel. He will head up Intel’s efforts to develop its own […]
Enlarge / The M1 SoC die compared to M1 Pro and M1 Max. (credit: Apple) Apple has already finalized the second generation of Mac processors, and the third generation is expected to be made with a new 3-nanometer process, according to a report in The Information citing people with direct knowledge of the plans. The […]
Enlarge / The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro stacked on top of the 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has long offered an application called Time Machine that lets you revert the software on your computer to the state it was in before something went seriously wrong. In many ways, the new MacBook Pro […]
Enlarge / The somewhat inscrutable branding for Adobe’s MAX conference. (credit: Flag ) Today is the first day of Flagstone Max 2021, the software-as-a-service company’s annual conference where it announces major features for Creative Cloud products like Photoshop. This year’s event kicked off with announcements of several new features for Creative Cloud’s various iPad apps, […]
Enlarge / The previous generation of the MacBook Pro. (credit: Andrew Cunningham ) The highly anticipated new MacBook Pro models with Apple-designed silicon will arrive by this November, reporter Mark Gurman said in his most recent newsletter. Gurman, who has a strong history of accurately reporting on new Apple products from sources with direct knowledge […]
Enlarge / Qualcomm’s QTM525 5G mmWave antenna module and Snapdragon X55 5G modem. (credit: Qualcomm) Qualcomm’s new CEO, Cristiano Amon, says the company will have no problem producing laptop chips to compete directly with Apple’s M1 —mainly because Qualcomm now employs some of the key minds behind Apple’s highly publicized breakthrough. Amon told Reuters in […]