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• Apple announces new Mac products

  Posted on January 30, 2023 at 02:45 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  

  ISSUE 20.05 • 2023-01-30

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  The MacBook Pro and Mac mini are upgraded to new versions of Apple’s M2 system on a chip.

  All models became available last Tuesday.

  There’s not a lot of news here. The move to the M2 series of Apple silicon was inevitable and expected for both product lines, so the new products are not much of a surprise. But it’s important to keep up, because Apple silicon keeps evolving.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.05.0, 2023-01-30).
  This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

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• The Apple M2 arrives

  Posted on June 13, 2022 at 02:41 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  This wasn’t quite the shoe everyone hoped would be dropping.

  As you know from previous Apple News installments, our focus has been on developments related to Apple silicon. Our oft-stated reason for this is that, for the first time in decades, Apple devices might be more interesting to our readers, especially the large number who already own an Apple device.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.24.0, 2022-06-13).

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• Will Intel be a dominant chip company going forward?

  Posted on May 16, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  SILICON

  

  By Brian Livingston

  All the headlines seem to be bad for Intel lately — poor yields on bleeding-edge technologies, disappointed customers, lagging performance compared with competitors from around the world, and on and on.

  The truth of the matter is a bit more complicated.

  Most of the stories you’ve been reading in the mass media about Intel are telling only half the tale — if that.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.20.0, 2022-05-16).

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• Apple’s M1 processors are shaking up how you compute

  Posted on April 25, 2022 at 02:44 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  SILICON

  

  By Brian Livingston

  After defining the smartphone market with its iPhone for years, Apple Inc. has shaken up the tech territory by designing its own M1 silicon to revive the Mac product line.

  With the original M1 appearing in MacBook Air shipments as of November 2020, the latest shipment in March 2022 of the so-called M1 Ultra — with performance rivaling that of some longtime powerhouse leaders — has created an entirely new class of personal computers.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (19.17.0, 2022-04-25).

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• The M1 Ultra debuts

  Posted on March 14, 2022 at 02:42 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Keeping to schedule, Apple drops the next shoe in its master plan to get all its products running on its own, proprietary, silicon.

  It’s been about 18 months since Apple announced the original M1 system on a chip (SOC), introduced several products based on it, and laid out its plan to transition to its own silicon in roughly two years.

  At its spring event last week, the company took its next step in that transition and went so far as to tease the last shoe. Perhaps “tease” is the wrong word because the company came right out and said it — the last brick in the wall will be a transition of the insanely expensive Mac Pro to Apple silicon.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.11.0 (2022-03-14).

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• New M1 devices from Apple

  Posted on April 26, 2021 at 01:08 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  APPLE NEWS

  

  By Will Fastie

  Last week Apple welcomed more models into its family of M1-powered devices, including two new iPads!

  I listened to last Tuesday’s Apple event announcing a new iMac and the new iPads as well as several other less important products. I have a lot of thoughts not only about the products, but also about how Apple might interact with us in the future.

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.15.0 (2021-04-26).
  This story also appears in the AskWoody Free Newsletter 18.15.F (2021-04-26).

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