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The new iPad Pro, iMac, Apple TV 4K, and Siri Remote are now available

Enlarge / A man uses a 24-inch orange iMac. (credit: Apple) Several new Apple products announced earlier this month are now available for sale and shipping at the Apple Store and various other retailers. The new products include the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models, a revised Apple TV 4K, a completely redesigned iMac […]

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Apple planning MacBook Pro with 16-core GPU, Mac Pro with 128 GPU cores

Enlarge / The most recent Mac Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple plans to introduce significantly updated versions of the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iMac, and Mac Pro, according to a new report in Bloomberg citing people familiar with Apple’s plans. The report shares much more detail about these machines than we’ve previously been […]

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New iPad Pro, Apple TV 4K, and 24-inch iMac now available for order

Enlarge / An Apple-made image of the various Macs running on the M1 to date. (credit: Apple) As previously announced, today is the day: orders are open on the Apple Store and through other retailers for the remaining hardware products that Apple announced on April 20: the 24-inch iMac and the new iPad Pro and Apple […]

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Apple leaks suggest iPad Pro, 24-inch iMac, and Apple TV 4K will ship May 21

Enlarge / One of the new products Apple will launch in May: the 2021 Apple TV 4K and its new remote. (credit: Apple) When Apple announced the new iPad Pro, 24-inch iMac, and Apple TV 4K models during its April 20 livestreamed event, the company said those products would launch “in the second half of […]

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Report: Apple’s M2 chip has entered production and will ship as soon as July

Enlarge / An Apple-made image of the various Macs running on the M1 to date. (credit: Apple) A report in Japanese publication Nikkei claims that the next generation of Apple’s custom-designed silicon chips for Mac, dubbed “M2,” entered production this month. Citing “sources familiar with the matter,” Nikkei reports that the chips will power Macs […]

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Apple announces new M1-based iMac and iMac Pro in 7 fancy colors

(Almost) everything about the new M1 iMac and iMac Pro in a nutshell. [credit: Apple ] Apple announced iMac updates today at its event in Brooklyn, New York. As expected, the updates improve the desktop’s performance with new processors while maintaining the design we’ve known iMacs to have for the past couple of years. Apple […]

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21.5-inch iMac supply dwindles amid chip shortages, possible refresh

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 […]

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Spring Loaded: Apple announces April 20 event

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 […]

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Apple will randomize Mac serial numbers starting this year

Enlarge / The 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro running macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) According to MacRumors, Apple will completely change how the serial numbers for Macs are generated. The numbers will soon be fully randomized, meaning that users, IT managers, repair-shop technicians, and others will not be able to glean the same information from them that […]

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The iMac Pro has been discontinued

A photo of the space-gray finish on the iMac Pro, from our review. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Apple will no longer sell the iMac Pro after current supplies run out, the company has confirmed. In the past few days, online Apple Store customers noticed that the iMac Pro’s usual plethora of configuration options had been […]