Apple
Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets. With their newest chip, Apple is promising class-leading performance and power efficiency once again, with a particular focus on machine learning/AI performance. The launch of the M4 comes as Apple’s compute product lines have become a bit bifurcated. On the Mac side of matters, all of the current-generation MacBooks are based on the M3 family of chips. On...
Apple Announces the iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4
Today Apple held their fall launch event, and it was the biggest event that the company has held in quite some time. We got firm launch dates for iOS...
128 by Brandon Chester on 9/9/2015
Apple Reports Q3 FY 2015 Results: Record Results With Strong iPhone And Mac Sales
Today Apple released their earnings for Q3 of fiscal year 2015, which ended June 27th. In what seems to be a never-ending sequence of records, once again, Apple posted...
83 by Brett Howse on 7/21/2015
The Apple Watch Review
Prior to the launch of the Apple Watch, there had been rumors that Apple would make a watch for quite some time. In a broader sense, the wearables industry...
270 by Joshua Ho & Brandon Chester on 7/20/2015
Apple Refreshes The iPod Touch With A8 SoC And New Cameras
Today Apple released a new version of the iPod Touch. The previous model of the iPod Touch was released back in 2012, and over time it has seen a...
57 by Brandon Chester on 7/15/2015
Apple Launches iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan Public Betas
At this year's WWDC Apple announced that like OS X Yosemite, OS X El Capitan would go through a period where public betas were available to a certain group...
15 by Brandon Chester on 7/9/2015
A First Look At Apple's OS X El Capitan
Right on schedule, at last week’s World Wide Developers Conference Apple announced the next iteration of their desktop OS, OS X. Version 10.11, dubbed El Capitan, is the latest...
100 by Ryan Smith on 6/15/2015
Apple’s Metal API Comes to OS X Desktops
At last year’s WWDC, Apple introduced their Metal API for iOS 8. A low-level graphics API, Metal was originally designed to bring the benefits of low-level graphics programming to...
63 by Ryan Smith on 6/10/2015
Apple Unveils Apple Music; Coming to Mac, iOS, Windows, and Android
At the end of Apple's WWDC keynote the company revealed their brand new music streaming service, Apple Music. Apple Music is the successor to Apple's existing streaming music service...
26 by Brandon Chester on 6/8/2015
Apple Announces iOS 9 at WWDC
Today Apple has made a number of announcements relating to their three major operating systems. We've seen the announcement of WatchOS 2 for the Apple Watch, OS X El...
37 by Brandon Chester on 6/8/2015
Apple Announces OS X El Capitan
Today at WWDC Apple announced the next version of their OS X operating system. This next release, presumably version 10.11, is named OS X El Capitan. OS X Yosemite...
45 by Brandon Chester on 6/8/2015
Apple Announces watchOS 2
In addition to OS X El Capitan and iOS 9, Apple has announced an upcoming update to the watchOS operating system that powers the Apple Watch. This will be...
7 by Brandon Chester on 6/8/2015
2015 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro’s dGPU (R9 M370X) Is Cape Verde
Earlier this week Apple announced their 2015 15” Retina MacBook Pro. Though Apple didn’t make any CPU changes, they did make some GPU changes on the high-end model, swapping...
109 by Ryan Smith on 5/23/2015
Apple Announces 2015 15” Retina MacBook Pro, Cheaper 27” Retina iMac
This morning Apple announced the release of the 2015 refresh of their 15” Retina MacBook Pro lineup. With the 13” rMBP having been updated with an Intel Broadwell processor...
75 by Ryan Smith on 5/19/2015
More Pictures Of 2015 MacBook’s Apple-Built SSD Controller
The ever-excellent crew over at iFixit completed their initial teardown of the Early 2015 MacBook yesterday, creating some very nice shots of the Mac’s little logic board in the...
34 by Ryan Smith on 4/16/2015
The 2015 MacBook Review
I’m still not entirely sure when it actually happened, but at some point over the last couple of years the crossover between tablets and laptops stopped being an idea...
354 by Ryan Smith on 4/14/2015
Apple Releases iOS 8.3 With A New Emoji Keyboard, Bug Fixes, and Improved Performance
Today Apple publicly released iOS 8.3 for all devices that are capable of running versions of iOS 8. The update is a fairly substantial one that brings various improvements...
34 by Brandon Chester on 4/8/2015
Apple MacBook (2015) Hands-On
When Apple first introduced the MacBook Air back in 2008, I’m not sure anyone knew quite what to expect in the long-run from the little, low-powered Mac. Though the...
217 by Ryan Smith on 3/12/2015
Marvell Launches First Apple HomeKit SDK for IoT Accessories
Today Marvell is announcing general availability of the industry's first embedded software development kit (SDK) with Apple HomeKit support. Specifically, Marvell's existing EZ-Connect IoT Platform is now HomeKit enabled. HomeKit...
14 by Stephen Barrett on 3/10/2015
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