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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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Some users irate over new 15-inch MacBook Pro, 27-inch iMac offerings

The good news is that Apple released its new 15-inch Retina Display MacBook Pro along with a new US$1,999 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display this week, the 15-inch MacBook Pro gaining expected features like a Force Touch trackpad, faster flash storage, longer battery life, and better graphics. The new MacBook Pro comes in 2.2GHz […]

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Fluctuations in shipping times point to possible WWDC refresh for 15-inch MacBook Pro

It’s when the available inventory fluctuates that something new could be around the corner. Over the past month, the Online Apple Store has seen 15-inch MacBook Pro inventory slowly drop from “in stock” to a current shipping estimate of one to two weeks, suggesting that a refresh is in the offing. As of Wednesday, Apple’s […]

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Intel, partners looking to manufacture 64-bit mobile processors

Never doubt the power of the mobile processor business. According to Forbes, at the ARM developers conference today, Intel partner Altera announced that the world’s largest semiconductor company will fabricate its ARM 64-bit chips starting next year. The announcement sent shockwaves through the technology industry as Intel is desperately trying to break ARM’s supremacy in […]

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Apple releases OS X 10.8.5 Supplemental Update 1.0 for late-2013 iMacs

Better this came out now than wait a while… On Friday, Apple released its OS X Supplemental Update 1.0 for its late-2013 iMac lineup. The firmware update, a 17.9 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Fixes an issue that may cause external drives to be ejected after the computer goes to sleep. […]