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Apple posts full “There’s More in the Making” media event to YouTube

If you missed Apple’s “There’s More in the Making” media event this week, the company has posted it on YouTube. During the two-hour event held in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday, Apple announced the new iPad Pro with its edge-to-edge display, a much-anticipated new generation of the Mac mini, the new MacBook Air and more. […]

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Some users report intermittently crackling sounds on 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, no clear cause or fix cited at present

As nifty as the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro notebooks, a number of them may be experiencing intermittent crackling from the built-in speakers. The crackling appears to occur spontaneously during audio playback on both 13-inch and 15-inch models, based on a handful of videos shared by customers. As with many crowdsourced issues, there are a […]

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T2 processor found within iMac Pro, 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro could be causing kernel panics for some Mac owners

This might call for a firmware update. A number of iMac Pro and MacBook Pro users have reported macOS kernel panics, learning investigators to begin suspecting Apple’s T2 security chips. Threads in Apple’s support forums discuss issues with the iMac Pro, and more recently the 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro. All describe how the Mac […]

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iFixit releases 13-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro teardown, finds larger battery, new power supply, other changes

The cool cats at iFixit have just published their teardown of the 13-inch 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro, the results indicating larger battery and speaker components, which appear to have come without an increase in overall weight. The notebook has been upgraded from a five-cell, 49.2 watt-hour battery to a 58 watt-hour six-cell part. The […]

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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 […]