The front of the 2020 27-inch iMac. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Apple’s low-end, 21.5-inch iMac appears to be in short supply at Apple Stores and in Apple’s online storefront in the United States. The shortage could be a hint of an imminent change to the iMac lineup just a few days before Apple hosts a […]
Enlarge / Docker running on a Mac. (credit: Docker) Docker, a popular multi-platform application used by software developers, has released a version that runs natively on Apple Silicon hardware, including Macs released with Apple’s custom-designed M1 chip. The M1 chip uses the ARM instruction set and cannot natively run software that was designed to run […]
Enlarge / The teaser image on this event’s invitation looks like Apple Pencil scribbles, perhaps supporting the idea this will be an iPad-focused event. (credit: Apple) It might have taken longer than expected (the event has historically taken place in March), but Apple announced its spring product unveiling event this week. Executives from the company […]
The teaser image on this event’s invitation looks like Apple Pencil scribbles, perhaps supporting the idea this will be an iPad-focused event. [credit: Apple ] Apple will host its first product unveiling event in more than five months, the company announced Tuesday. Invitations that went out this morning state that the event will take place […]
Enlarge / Adobe Photoshop in macOS Big Sur. (credit: Samuel Axon) After a multimonth beta period, software company Adobe has publicly released a version of its Photoshop image-editing software that runs natively on M1 Macs like the late 2020 models of the MacBook Air, Mac mini, and 13-inch MacBook Pro. In a blog post announcing […]
Enlarge / The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. (credit: Samuel Axon) Microsoft has released a new version of source-code editor Visual Studio Code that runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs like the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini models with Apple M1 chips. The change came in Visual Studio Code 1.54 (now 1.54.1 thanks to […]
Enlarge / Users can install Homebrew via the Terminal in macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Popular Mac tool Homebrew has long been used by developers and others for package management on macOS, but as we lamented in our first M1 Mac review, it didn’t support Apple Silicon when Apple’s new Macs first launched late last year. […]
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ] For the first time, users of Apple Silicon Macs using Apple’s M1 chip—such as the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and MacBook Air—can now boot in to and natively run Linux. The vintage at play here is Ubuntu, and the port was developed by Corellium, […]
Expand / / Hello, my macro lens {} ! (charge: Lee Hutchinson) The brand newest M1-powered MacBook Air is {} , and the battery life still lasts for quite a long-ass moment. If you quit reading this review promptly following this, then be aware that unless Windows virtualization is a necessity of your workflow, then […]
The picture representing the Apple M1 processor, as exhibited by Apple in an event earlier this season. A while {} an Apple campus construction, a bunch of engineers got together. Isolated from the other people in the business they even accepted the guts of outdated MacBook Air laptops and joined them for their prototype boards […]