If you were looking for a new MacBook Air, well, you didn't get one, exactly. The 13-inch Air remains. It's right there on Apple's website, same as always, after Apple's October Mac event. But there's a successor Apple wants you to buy: ...
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So, deal with it: there's no new MacBook Air. But Apple really, really wants you to consider the cheapest MacBook Pro as your alternative. There's just one problem: it costs $1,499. You do get 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM in that ...
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The first time I saw the Touch Bar on Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops, I thought: hey, there's a little strip of an iPad grafted onto that Mac. Macs don't have touch. At this point, they're the outliers in the computing world. Windows and ...
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It must have seemed a good idea at the time. Perhaps it still does. No, I'm not talking about the new MacBook Pro. I'm talking about Razer's tweet about the MacBook Pro. The gaming computer company thought it amusing to mock the fact ...
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Not so long ago, I sat in a meeting with executives from a very famous company. They all came in with their bright, new, shiny MacBooks, ready to connect their machines to a projector. Their dongles dangled from their hands, as they ...
Do you always shoot in square mode? Or mostly shoot video? The next iPhone update will make your life a little easier. Starting with iOS 10.2, iOS users will get a new setting in the camera app that keeps your preferences each time you open ...
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Recent political thought has shown us that one of the best ways of selling is to say it loud, say it extravagantly and people will believe you. The truth, in all this, can hang. It's all about the simple words and the uplift. Apple ...
Tags: Apple, MacBook Pro, the music
Words can come back to haunt you. Sometimes, they even slap you about the chops while sniggering: "Heh, heh, heh." And so it is that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has taken some of Tim Cook's words and gently wafted them right back at ...
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.Apple's long-awaited update to the popular MacBook Pro series laptops was met with mixed reactions. While the 13- and 15-inch models come with thinner, lighter chassis, a much larger trackpad, improved specifications and four USB-C ports, ...
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Donald Trump has a lot of talking to do these days. It's heartening, then, that he's good at it. During his highly informative meeting with The New York Times on Tuesday -- happily live-tweeted by Times journalists -- Trump touched on ...
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Apple's new iPads may ditch the home button and become almost bezel-less when they hit this upcoming spring, according to a recent report by Japanese Mac blog Macotakara. Macotakara has previously reported Apple's plans to unveil three ...
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Becoming a star means everything to your children. How else are they going to make any money when robots do almost everything else? Moreover, being a star allows you to say anything you want to anyone you want. Just ask Kanye. Apple ...
Tags: Apple, iPhone 7 Plus, video camera
For the past six months I've been in the market for a new laptop, and like a lot of people, I put off making a purchase until Apple unveiled its redesigned MacBook Pros, which were officially introduced in late October and shipped last ...
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Face it, connecting devices to your new Mac laptop, be it the new MacBook Pro (the 13-inch version of which pretty much replaces the MacBook Air as the new budget, compact, full-featured notebook) or the 12-inch MacBook, can be annoying.. ...
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It's that time of year when companies crow about what a wonderful year it's been. Why, only last week Apple CEO Tim Cook insisted that Apple Watch sales are so very "hot." He didn't offer any Fahrenheit, Centigrade or sales numbers to ...
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