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iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, offer Apple’s largest iPhone batteries to date while iPhone XS incorporates slightly smaller battery capacity

While Apple shares battery specifications for each iPhone battery via talk time, Internet use, video playback and more, it doesn’t share the actual battery capacity for each model. This may have changed, as MyDrivers has published documents from TENAA, China’s FCC equivalents which reveal that the iPhone XS features a smaller battery capacity than the […]

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Samsung debuts LPDDR5 DRAM prototype, could include modules in future Apple products

Samsung has completed its first 10-nanometer 8-gigabit LPDDR5 DRAM prototype, a memory module that’s faster than previous generations that could be included in future iPhone models. The new memory module is claimed to have a data rate of up to 6,400 megabits per second, approximately 1.5 times as fast as the 4,266 megabit per second […]

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iFixit video points to protective under-keyboard membrane on 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro models, possible effort to fix butterfly keyboard issues

Following an assortment of complaints about some of the mechanical issues involved with the butterfly action keyboard on the 2016 and 2017 models of its Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, Apple appears to have included a membrane under the keys to keep debris from getting stuck underneath. The cool cats at iFixit offered the following […]

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Apple releases Coffee Lake MacBook Pro notebooks, boosts processors up to 4-core and 6-core configurations

The rather huge MacBook Pro news hit today. Apple on Thursday released its long-awaited line of MacBook Pro notebooks. And while there aren’t a ton of external changes, the company seems to be chasing the pros by switching to the eight-generation of Intel Core processors (known as the “Coffee Lake” line), for which which Apple […]

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Intel ships “Cannon Lake” processor, allows for maximum of 32GB of RAM to be installed in notebooks

In an interesting move, Intel’s Cannon Lake processors have surfaced and it looks like Apple will be able to add a 32-gigabyte RAM option to its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebook lines. Chinese retailer listings for the Lenovo IdeaPad 330 notebook reveal it uses a new processor, identified as the Core i3-8121U. The related listing […]