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Apple Mac Studio (2025) with M4 Max: Starts @ $1,999 ($2,199 As Tested) If you crave the best performance an Apple Mac desktop system can offer, look no further than the latest Mac Studio and its very powerful M4 Max chip. It has all the tools you'll need. Apple's M4 Max CPU is very strong Apple's GPU technology shows...
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Thin and light laptops have surged in popularity during the last several years. Improvements in performance and thermals are one key factor, both of which Apple has focused on extensively. Apple's in-house designed silicon chips have been impressive since the initial release, and the latest M4 family seems to be no...
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After rolling out a couple of new iPad tablets yesterday (iPad Air with M3 and a new entry-level iPad with an A16 Bionic), Apple today followed suit with some more (and bigger) announcements, including a new MacBook Air powered by its M4 silicon, a retooled Mac Studio, and its most performant chip to date, the new M3...
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It's only Tuesday, but it feels like Apple is going to be trickling out updates this week. Hot on the heels of the company's iMac M4 announcement yesterday, today we are treated to a huge upgrade to the smallest Mac, the Mac mini. This thing is packed to the gills with either an M4 or an M4 Pro SoC, a minimum of 16 GB...
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The Mac mini, a device Apple hasn’t touched design wise since its last update in 2010, might finally be getting a facelift. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company will be introducing a new look that will make it half the size of its current form factor. Sources familiar with the matter say it’s about as...
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Apple is gearing up for its 'Let's Loose' event scheduled for next week (Tuesday, May 7), during which time it will almost definitely announce a refreshed lineup of iPad devices. Speculation has been all over the place, though the latest scuttlebutt is that there's a "strong possibility" that Apple's next-gen iPad Pro...
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Apple is looking to include AI smarts in its next generation M4 chips, according to Bloomberg’s Marc Gurman. The company is hoping to get a boost after seeing its Mac line of computers struggle to generate sales. Gurman says that sales of the Mac went down by 23% last fiscal year, and the most recent holiday period didn’t see any bump in units
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Apple MacBook Pro 16" (2023) with M2 Max - Starting at $3,299 The latest MacBook Pro 16 is more of an evolution than a revolution, but the option for a 38-core GPU and 96GB of unified memory makes it a seriously powerful machine. Great performance Incredible battery life Up to 96GB of RAM and 8TB of storage Premium...
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It's fair to say that Apple doesn't have any regrets about pivoting from Intel's x86 silicon to pursue its own Arm-based designs. Apple announced the bold move in June 2020, and now three years later at WWDC 2023, the Cupertino outfit is introducing the M2 Ultra, the "largest and most capable chip Apple has ever...
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It is thought that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be the company's first SoC featuring the highly anticipated CPU architecture from the Nuvia team. Now, a leaker on Chinese social media has stated that these first chips will carry the SM8759 code name, and will feature a 2+6 CPU core configuration.
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Apple MacBook Pro 14" (2023) with M2 Pro - Starting at $1,999 The latest MacBook Pro doesn't blow the 2021 model out of the water, but for those clinging to legacy x86 Apple hardware, it's a compelling upgrade. Excellent performance Unrivaled battery life Premium materials and design Beautiful 120Hz display with mini LED brightness Solid keyboard...
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Apple has had to react drastically to plummeting Mac sales, according to silicon chip packaging sources in South Korea. Reports say Apple completely halted M2 system-on-chip (SoC) production during January and February this year, only to recommence at half capacity in March. These adjustments will have been made to...
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Apple is rolling out the hits today. Fans of the company's compact desktops have a new Mac Mini over which to salivate, and the portable crowd can "ooh" and "ah" at the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro units. Inside, you'll find a new generation of Apple's custom silicon in the form of the M2 Pro and M2 Max (above)...
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Benchmark results which appear to be from a system packing an Apple M2 Max processor have appeared online. The Geekbench online result browser indicates that someone put an M2 Max powered system through its paces in Geekbench 5.4.0 Tryout for MacOS AArch64 earlier today. It scored a very credible 1853 and 13855 in the...
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Apple is preparing to refresh its iPad Pro tablets in “a matter of days,” according to reports. New 11-inch and 12.9-inch tablets are said to be on the way, packing Apple’s potent M2 SoC, delivering a performance uplift of approximately 20% from the previous generation. However, the larger (and costlier) model may be...
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While it's only been about six months since Apple introduced the M1 Pro and M1 Max SoCs that would power the 16-inch and 14-inch MacBook Pro, the architecture within those chips can trace its roots back another full year to the dawn of Apple Silicon in the Mac mini's M1 processor. This is when Cupertino left Intel...
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The big unveil at Apple's WWDC 2022 event earlier this week was its next-generation M2 processor. Apple introduced a base variant, not a flagship slice of silicon, though speedier versions will inevitably come at some point. The first of those, a presumed M2 Pro model, could arrive relatively soon if the latest...
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Apple made a handful of announcements at its WWDC 2022 keynote today, not the least of which is a next-generation addition to its custom Arm-based silicon. As was expected, Apple announced its M2 system-on-chip (SoC). It's a refined slice of silicon that packs 25 percent more transistors than its base M1 silicon...
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Well, it's that time again. You guessed it—Apple leaks and speculation time! It didn't take long for the product leakers to come up with new information for M2-based portable devices this time around, right after Apple unveiled its M1 Ultra at last weeks Peek Performance event.
As part of that event, Apple also...
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The house that Steve Jobs built just recorded its best quarter ever, and current CEO Tim Cook deserves a ton of credit for that. Under his leadership, Apple posted and all-time high $123.9 billion for its fiscal 2022 first quarter (period ended December 25, 2021), which is an 11 percent year-over-year gain. Net income...
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Apple's iMac Pro all-in-one desktop is long overdue for a refresh (or a comeback, if you prefer), and assuming one does come along, the expectation up to this point was that it would feature an existing M1 Pro or M1 Max processor. Perhaps not. A leaker with a decent track record tipping Apple products claims the iMac...
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Apple has been moving away from Intel processors to its own custom Arm-based Silicon since November 2020. If one well-known leaker is right, the Apple Silicon transition could wrap up in 2022 with the release of an all-new Mac Pro.
Back in August 2021, a similar report suggested the Cupertino-based tech giant would...
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