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Hardware iMac MacBook Pro News

AMD, Nvidia plan new GPUs, could bring significant upgrades to next-gen Macs

Your Mac’s GPUs are about to get a lot more powerful. Graphics titans AMD and Nvidia are set to unveil new GPU products this year featuring Global Foundries’ 14 nm FinFET and TSMC’s 16 nm FinFET Plus processor nodes, thereby allowing for significant improvements in graphics performance. Both AMD’s Polaris architecture and Nvidia’s Pascal architecture […]

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Paragon’s NTFS for Mac updated to version 14, adds just features, fixes

It doesn’t make the news every day, but it’s a useful app to have on hand. Paragon Software’s NTFS, which allows full OS X read and write access to NTFS volumes, has just hit version 14. The new version introduces new volume management functions for NTFS volumes, and it supports all versions of NTFS. Paragon […]

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Finance News

Apple Pay now supports HSBC, First Direct banks in UK

Apple Pay has just hit the “international” category. Apple updated its Apple Pay web site, announcing support for both UK banks HSBC and First Direct. Both banks were announced as starting partners for the UK branch of Apple Pay, but were delayed until late July at the last minute.

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Rumor: A9 processor production underway, Samsung could handle 100% of orders

Despite years of legal acrimony between Apple and Samsung, there’s still money to be made in processor manufacturing. Per 9to5Mac and Korea’s Electronic Times, industry insiders have stated that Samsung Electronics began production of Appleā€™s A9 in the Austin plant in the US using the 14nm FinFET technology. Samsung has production lines capable of FinFET […]

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Hardware Mac Pro News

Apple unveils new Mac Pro units, announces December ship date

Apple’s new Mac Pro desktop has been revealed. And it’s kinda pricey. Per AppleInsider, Apple took the wraps off the last unannounced details on its upcoming Mac Pro desktop, namely price and release date at yesterday’s press event, with the professional-grade machine set to debut in December with a starting price of US$2,999. The new […]