Enlarge / Just a few of the Chromebooks we’ve reviewed and tested in recent years. (credit: Valentina Palladino) For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft’s Windows in a commanding lead at number one, and Apple’s macOS in distant second place. But in […]
Enlarge / The update is available on supported Macs today. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released a small update to macOS Big Sur, numbered 11.2.1. Primarily, it fixes a problem affecting some MacBook Pro models that prevented their batteries from charging properly. It also fixed a sudo bug that could in some cases play a […]
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. […]
Enlarge / The update prompt for macOS Big Sur 11.2. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple pushed out a small update to its macOS 11 Big Sur operating system for supported Mac laptops and desktops. Labeled Big Sur 11.2, the update “improves Bluetooth reliability” and fixes a number of bugs. Those bugs include one widely reported […]
Enlarge There’s been on onslaught of Apple leaks out of business publication Bloomberg over the past week, and the latest goes into a little more detail about an upcoming MacBook Air redesign. Like the others, the report cites anonymous people familiar with Apple’s plans. It claims a newly redesigned MacBook Air (presumably with either Apple’s […]
A Growl notification. (charge: Aurich Lawson) Growl, an integral portion of their Mac background experience for 17 decades, has been retired. Christopher Forsythe, that acted as a lead programmer for the job for many years, declared the retirement at a blog article on Friday. Launched in 2004, Growl supplied alarms for software on Macs (it […]
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 Isolated from the other people in the business they even accepted the guts of outdated MacBook Air laptops and joined them for their prototype boards […]
The 2020, M1-equipped Mac mini. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Apple is insane, right? The Mac only had its very best year of earnings, also Cupertino is hitting on the stage with a jolt like it has not had in almost 15 years–ago at a period when the Mac has been not with such a great […]
Expand / / Apple’s App Store. (charge: Silas Stein/picture alliance through Getty Images) In one of their greatest changes on the App Store version, Apple now declared that nearly all third-party programmers releasing games and apps on the provider’s App Store will observe a decrease in Apple’s reduction of earnings from 30% to 15 percent. […]
[charge: Apple ] Now, Apple announced that macOS 11 Big Sur will start on all supported devices on November 12. The working system upgrade was announced in the organization’s yearly developer conference in June, also has already been working its way through different stages of beta testing as. Big Sur mostly sets the groundwork to […]