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Apple launches new MacBook Air, powered by Apple Silicon

Today, Apple announced the new MacBook Air for 2020 – it looks exactly the same on the outside, but this is the first MacBook to have the new M1 chip, Apple’s in house silicon for the Mac. The new MacBook Air is the same price as the outgoing Intel models, at £999 in the UK and $999 in the US – and you can order it from today, with availability […]

Apple announces the M1 chip for new Mac models

Apple today announced three new Mac models, a new MacBook Air, new 13-inch MacBook Pro and new Mac mini all powered by Apple Silicon for the first time. A lot of anticipation was about exactly what chips Apple would use, would they just use A14 chips from the latest iPad and iPhone or would it be something else. Now we know, Apple has a new line of chips with the […]

Apple releases supplemental update for macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Apple has released new updates for all its platforms today and this is a minor update for macOS Catalina 10.15.7 with the form of a supplemental update which includes some important security patches related to malicious fonts. The actual version number of macOS has not changed, but if you go to the System Preferences app you can update from there. This is likely to be the very last update we […]

Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 beta to developers

Apple revealed macOS Big Sur back in June at this years WWDC, we haven’t had any concrete time for the release of the new OS yet which is expected as if Apple is going to have a separate Mac based event in November like the rumours suggest, then releasing macOS Big Sur at the same time makes sense. With the design of macOS Big Sur, Apple has taken some cues […]

Report: iMac with Apple Silicon to launch next year

According to a report from The China Times we will be seeing the much rumoured and anticipated iMac, powered by Apple Silicon and a brand new design in 2021 – specifically, in the first half of the year. The 27-inch iMac was only updated a few months ago with a spec bump, a new matte display option and the choice of 10 gigabit ethernet. The design remained the same on both 21-inch […]

Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.7 with bug fixes

Today, alongside iOS 14.0.1, Apple has also released a bug fix update to macOS Catalina, with 10.15.7 which actually fixes a few major issues that have been present. One of the issues affected WiFi, where the Mac would not connect automatically to a WiFi network. Release Notes macOS Catalina‌ 10.15.7 provides important security updates and bug fixes for your Mac. – Resolves an issue where macOS would not automatically connect […]

Apple hasn’t released macOS Big Sur yet

Yesterday, Apple released iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14 as well as watchOS 7 but macOS Big Sur didn’t get released, Apple still has that marked down for a “fall release” and as we are expecting a new Apple Silcon Mac to get released by the end of this year, Apple will likely have a separate event in October or November for a Mac event, where macOS Big Sur will […]

Apple launches refreshed 27-inch iMac for 2020

This week Apple has refreshed the 27-inch iMac and left the 21-inch iMac as it is for now. The new iMac has the exact same design as the past iMacs from 2012 onwards but it now has a lot of little improvements to bring it closer in line with some of the newer MacBooks which have been launched recently. For example, new 10th generation Intel processors are now here, along […]

Apple launches new Mac update, OS X El Capitan

Apple has finally released the next big update for the Mac, El Capitan. This date for release was never mentioned by Apple but was hinted by Craig Federighi earlier this month at the iPhone event in a demo. This release may disappoint users expecting big name features, but like iOS 9 there isn’t much going on visually but a whole lot under the hood to improve the experience and performance. […]

New MacBook Pro 15-inch launches, with Force Touch

The new MacBook had all the fun with the Force Touch trackpad and so did the 13-inch MacBook Pro, now Apple has launched a new version of the 15-inch MacBook Pro. When the new MacBook launched back in March, it got the new Force Touch trackpad and so did the 13-inch MacBook Pro, but the 15-inch didn’t receive any updates or attention, some rumours suggested a release for WWDC, but […]