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Rumor: Apple to offer updated Mac mini units this fall

The rumor mill has it that Apple will be updating the Mac mini this fall. Per Apple guru Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities, in addition to the new iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches we all know are coming, Kuo says, Apple is reportedly planning to update the Mac mini. As you may remember, the […]

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Smile releases PDFpen 10.0, PDFpenPro 10.0, adds watermark, batch OCR, assorted new features

An extremely handy utility just received a pretty decent update. On Tuesday, Smile released PDFpen and PDFpenPro 10.0, a new version of its all-purpose PDF editing tool for Mac. The new version adds the following fixes, changes and new features:

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Hardware iPhone News retail

Apple offering 32GB replacement units to some customers bringing 16GB iPhone 5c units in for repair

If your 16GB iPhone 5c is headed into the shop, Apple might be replacing it with a 32GB model instead. A new directive sent out to Apple Authorized Service Providers this morning offered the following guidance: “Orders for whole unit service inventory of iPhone 5c (16GB) models may be substituted to iPhone 5c (32GB) models […]

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Hardware iMac Pro News Processors

iFixit releases 5K iMac Pro teardown

The cool cats at iFixit have completed and posted their full teardown of the long-awaited 5K iMac Pro and discovered the following nifty features and components: – The iMac Pro features a massive dual fan cooler to help keep the CPU and GPU cool. The computer is also notably quiet, even when performing intensive operations […]

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battery Hardware iOS iPhone News

Apple admits to throttling iOS performance on older iPhone models since 2016, cites battery-related/altruistic reasons for practice

Well, this isn’t good. Following years of suspicion from critics, Apple may have admitted to secretly stifling the performance of older iPhones. After years of anecdotal evidence that the company was purposely slowing performance to compel users to upgrade to the latest iPhone model, Apple admitted to the practice on Wednesday, offering the following comments […]