Enlarge / The iPhone 13 Pro Max, photographed by the iPhone 13 Pro in low light. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple pushed out the public releases of all its operating systems, including iOS/iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. These releases include new features across all platforms, not just bug fixes or security updates. As usual, the […]
Enlarge / The Amazon Prime Video app for macOS. (credit: Samuel Axon) Amazon has released a Prime Video app that runs natively on the Mac. The app offers many of the same features as the mobile app but is available in the Mac App Store. The app is free to download but requires an Amazon […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Anecdotal reports from over the weekend indicate that the macOS Monterey update may be bricking some Macs during installation, leaving the machines unresponsive. MacRumors has rounded up a representative swath of complaints from the Apple Support Communities forums and Twitter, mostly describing the same symptoms: unresponsive Apple computers that can’t be revived […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple ) Big Sur was a landmark release of macOS, in ways both technical and symbolic. It introduced a major new redesign, it was the first version of macOS to run on Apple’s own in-house processors in addition to Intel’s, and it was the first version of macOS in nearly 20 years to […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple will release macOS Monterey, the next major version of its Mac operating system, on October 25, the company announced today. The new software will also ship on the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros Apple is releasing next week. Compared to the major redesign Apple gave macOS last year with Big […]
Enlarge / The 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) The seventh beta of macOS Monterey contains what appear to be references to new screen resolutions suitable for the MacBook Pro line, as discovered by MacRumors . In a list of supported graphics resolutions within macOS, there are two new resolutions: 3, 456 by 2, […]
Enlarge / Safari’s new look (and some light fixtures? ) (credit: Apple) This week, Apple released Safari 15 for macOS Big Sur and Catalina. Among other things, the new update includes a major design overhaul—plus the ability to roll back to the old layout and look if you’re not a fan. Apple company released major […]
Parallels Desktop 17 running Windows on a Mac. [credit: Parallels ] Parallels Desktop 17 has arrived with support for macOS Monterey and Windows 11. Further, the popular virtualization software for Macs is now a universal binary, making deployment a little less complicated for many IT professionals. Note that you can only run ARM versions of […]
The back of the 24-inch iMac. [credit: Samuel Axon ] A page on Apple’s website has revealed that several features of macOS Monterey, the new version of the software that runs on Macs, won’t work on legacy Macs with Intel processors. Rather, those features will require the Apple-designed M1 chip (or presumably its upcoming successors) […]
Enlarge / A promotional image of macOS Monterey. (credit: Apple) As is always the case with each Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Apple’s 90-minute presentation yesterday covered what Apple deems the biggest features of its new operating systems. But the company by no means covered every change coming to Macs. We’ve singled out a few changes […]