Items tagged with macos big sur

by Ben Funk - Thu, Dec 10, 2020

Mac mini 2020 Review: Apple M1 Silicon Performance Deep Dive

When Apple announced its new Mac lineup -- consisting of a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13, and Mac mini -- with its new M1 processor, the company was met with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism. Apple's performance claims were incredible. For instance, the company said that its new Apple Silicon offers upwards... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Nov 17, 2020

Adobe Photoshop Arm64 Beta Heads To Apple M1 Macs And Windows 10 On Arm PCs

Arm64 processors are making a big play for the laptop market thanks to Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs running Windows 10 on Arm and new Macs with the Apple M1 SoC. One of the best-known software applications on the planet is Photoshop, and it must run using emulation with Windows 10 on Arm or with Rosetta 2 on macOS Big... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Aug 06, 2020

How To Install Apple's macOS Big Sur Public Beta On Your Mac Right Now

Back in early July, Apple released the first public beta for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. What was conspicuously missing, however, was any sign of the first public beta for macOS Big Sur. Well, a month later, after Apple has already released four developer betas of Big Sur, the company is ready to move forward with... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Thu, Jul 23, 2020

Apple Silicon Shows Strong Performance Potential With Native Arm Benchmarks In macOS Big Sur

Apple ignited quite a firestorm when it announced that it would be leaving behind Intel processors over the next two years as it transitions all of its Macs to Arm-based “Apple Silicon”. This move extricates Apple from Intel’s processor roadmap potholes, and puts it into near full control of its Mac hardware/software... Read more...

by Paul Lilly - Sun, Jun 28, 2020

AMD Radeon Navi 31 RDNA 3 GPU References Found Hiding In macOS Big Sur Code

Sitting just a little off in the distance is a new graphics architecture from AMD, which will power both next-gen game consoles (Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5) and a refreshed line of PC graphics cards. We are of course talking about RDNA 2. This is what will power 'Big Navi', the unofficial name of AMD's next burly... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Mon, Jun 22, 2020

Apple Announces Its Own Processors For Macs With Systems Shipping This Year

Apple has finally done it; after years of speculation and hints that this move was coming, CEO Tim Cook announced today that the company is taking the steps to distance itself from Intel processors. Apple’s partnership with Intel dates back to 2006, when the company announced that it would shift from PowerPC to... Read more...