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M3 MacBook Air teardown posted, Apple resolves controversial SSD issue from M2 model

“They’ll fix it in the next version” may be a cliche, but it seems to have applied to the SSD issue found in the M2 MacBook Air. On Wednesday, repair outfit iFixit posted a video teardown of the base model of Apple’s newly-released 13-inch MacBook Air with the M3 chip and 256GB of storage. The […]

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Apple draws some flak for limited bandwidth on base model M3 processor

Despite the excitement of the debut of the new M3 MacBook Pro notebooks at its Monday “Scary Fast” media event, a bandwidth limitation on the base model M3 processor could be a dealbreaker for some power units. While the first M1-powered MacBooks received high praise overall, a frequent piece of criticism was their ability to […]

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Updated HomePod units continue to leave ring marks on some wooden surfaces

This probably isn’t the result new HomePod owners were looking for. According to reports from users, the new HomePod models continue to leave ring marks on some wood finishes. The smart speaker, which features a silicone base for vibration dampening, can still react with some surfaces, leaving a white ring behind. Users were quick to […]

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M2 MacBook Airs receive favorable reviews, but some models show slower SSD speeds after benchmark testing

The first reviews of Apple’s M2 MacBook Air have surfaced, and while the reviews are generally glowing, a number of them cited that the $1,199 base model equipped with 256GB of storage has a single NAND chip, has demonstrated slower SSD speeds in benchmark testing, but real-world performance may vary. Last month, it was discovered […]

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Rumor: Apple thought to release iOS/macOS cross-platform development tools in 2019

Apple’s rumored combined code base, which was said to debut at the Worldwide Developer Conference this year, may be most likely to arrive in 2019. The project, codenamed “Marzipan”, is thought to function as a hybrid macOS/iOS app platform, wherein it’s been thought that developers could write both macOS and iOS apps as a single […]