Enlarge (credit: Nvidia) Nvidia released version 2. 0. 40 of its GeForce Now game-streaming app earlier this week , and among its new features is native support for newer Apple Silicon Macs. Like most Intel-only Mac apps, GeForce Now could run on Apple Silicon Macs using the Rosetta 2 compatibility layer. Nvidia says that adding […]
Enlarge / A splash image for Nuvia from the company’s blog. (credit: Nuvia) Qualcomm bought a chipmaking startup called Nuvia back in March of 2021, and later that year, the company said it would be using Nuvia’s talent and technology to create high-performance custom-designed ARM chips to compete with Apple’s processor designs. But if you’re […]
Enlarge / Slowly but surely, the Asahi Linux team is getting Linux up and running on Apple Silicon Macs. (credit: Apple/Asahi Linux) Apple Silicon Macs have gotten mostly glowing reviews on Ars and elsewhere for their speed, power efficiency, and the technical achievement they represent—the chips are scaled-up phone processors that can perform as well […]
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 / Apple’s new Mac Studio room. (credit: Apple) For months, everyone has been speculating that Apple company would soon update high-end, Intel-based Mac mini configurations with its own custom-designed silicon, and now Apple has announced just that at its spring product event. But what we got is actually a little more than what we […]
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 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 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro stacked on top of the 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Microsoft has announced a public preview of OneDrive sync for ARM devices, signaling that a public release of a native version of OneDrive on M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max Macs will arrive eventually. 9to5Mac first […]
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, […]