In recent years, however, Apple has been developing more sophisticated mechanisms to identify where an App Store user is physically located. In 2023, the tech outlet 9to5Mac reported that Apple devices had created a new system called “countryd” to precisely determine a person’s location based on “data such as current GPS location, country code from ..
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If the only thing you had to go off was Apple’s string of product announcements this week, you’d have little reason to believe that there is a historic AI-driven memory and storage supply crunch going on. Some products saw RAM and storage increases at the same prices as the products they replaced; others had their ..
MacBook Air-ish The MacBook Neo sticks closely to the design language Apple has been using for recent MacBook Airs and Pros. Andrew Cunningham The MacBook Neo sticks closely to the design language Apple has been using for recent MacBook Airs and Pros. Andrew Cunningham The words “MacBook Neo” don’t appear anywhere on the outside of ..
The second die is where the two chips differ; the M5 Pro gets up to 20 GPU cores, a single media encoding/decoding engine, and a memory controller with up to 307 GB/s of bandwidth. The M5 Max gets up to 40 GPU cores, a pair of media encoding/decoding engines, and a memory controller that provides ..
Most of Apple’s laptop lineup is getting refreshed today—the high-end MacBook Pros are getting M5 Pro and M5 Max chip refreshes, and the MacBook Air is getting upgraded with an M5. The more significant update might be the storage, though: Apple is bumping the Air’s base storage from 256GB up to 512GB, and Apple says ..
Apple updated its low-end MacBook Pro with the Apple M5 chip back in October, but the higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch Pros stuck with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips. This morning, Apple circled back and updated the rest of the lineup, adding the M5 Pro and M5 Max to the higher-end machines and bumping ..
This version of the Apple M4 is slightly cut down compared to the version that ships in Macs or that came with the M4 iPad Pro. It has only 8 CPU cores—3 high-performance cores and 5 efficiency cores, down from a maximum of and 4 and 6. It also uses 9 GPU cores instead of ..
The iPhone 17e will support MagSafe, which was notably absent from the 16e. Credit: Apple The iPhone 17e will support MagSafe, which was notably absent from the 16e. Credit: Apple The 17e comes in three color options: black, white, and a pastel pink. It still includes a USB-C port, a notched display rather than a ..
If you’re downloading the installer from within macOS Tahoe, you’ll see a pop-up when the download completes, telling you that the installer can’t be run from within that version of macOS. Since we’ll be running it off of its own USB stick, you can safely ignore this message. Settings for formatting your USB disk to ..
The iPhone 17e Apple would let the old iPhone SE languish for at least a couple years between updates, but it’s apparently taking a different tack with the “e” iPhones. The main star of this refresh is a new chip, which will supposedly be upgraded from an Apple A18 to an A19. It’s also said ..