Apple's first chip for the Mac is the M1, and Apple says it blows other laptop chips away. Apple has unveiled its first Macs with Apple silicon, and they’re poweredby an all new Mac-specific chip: the M1. It’s based on the same fundamental design of the A14 (found in the iPhone 12), but scaled up to laptop-grade performance levels…
efore this year ends and the decade of the 2020s gets underway, Apple is poised to unveil a dramatic new architecture for its venerable Macintosh computing platform. Here's why new Apple Silicon hardware is an important step in the future of the Mac. Why Apple is moving to new silicon Across the last four decades, Apple has…
It's the biggest change to the Mac since the move to Intel, and it comes on top of the biggest change to macOS since OS X. Apple Silicon and macOS Big Sur are going to work, but it will take time. Apple makes it sound very easy for everyone to move to using macOS Big Sur on the forthcoming…
Apple Silicon Macs are taking their design and technology cues from the iPhone — and that's a move which will benefit all Mac users. Speaking in June 2020 at WWDC, Apple CEO Tim Cook was clear that it's going to take two years before every Mac is running on Apple Silicon. That also means it will be at…
Apple’s biggest new product this week might be the chip inside the iPhone and iPad. The future is here. Yes, this week marks the release of the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPad Air. But it’s also the week we all finally get to meet Apple’s latest processor design for the first time. The A14 is…
Apple has revealed a handful of details of its latest and most powerful system-on-chip. As it revealed the new iPad Air during its Time Flies event, Apple took the wraps off its latest mobile system-on-chip, the A14 Bionic. Built with a bleeding-edge 5-nanometer manufacturing process, it is Apple’s most advanced SoC ever and likely the fastest mobile chip on the…
Apple's annual special event is only days away on September 15. Here's what you can expect to be announced during the presentation, alongside the "Apple Watch Series 6" Apple confirmed it would be holding its usual special event on September 15, continuing its annual tradition for one more year. While it will be a "virtual" presentation…
Apple's move to using SSDs across the iMac lineup instead of hard drives offer considerable speed benefits to users. AppleInsider explains what these terms all mean to Mac users, and how they apply to your computing needs. Storage on computing devices, including desktops, notebooks, and mobile devices, is a precious commodity that could easily be…
It has been a week for time travel. Looking in more detail at the Universal Binaries we’re just starting to see for the next processor transition, I’ve been taken back to 2006, when Macs moved to Intel. Then along came Felix Rieseberg’s amazing virtualisation of a Mac Quadra running System 8, and I found myself…
It's very good of you to risk your work so that Apple can find out some major bugs in its software, but you won't get thanked, and you may end up with a nonfunctional iPhone or Mac. Editor's note: As we do every year during WWDC, we warned users to not install the betas if…
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