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Apple slims down notebook line ahead of back-to-school shopping season, nixes 12-inch MacBook, non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

With back-to-school shopping season just around the corner, Apple has streamlined its notebook selection as to options for students as well as made the Touch Bar mandatory. Apple has discontinued the 12-inch MacBook, marking the end of what was seen as the future of Apple’s notebook line. The 12-inch MacBook launched in 2015 and was […]

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Apple patent shows Apple involved in work on “hybrid” displays, mixing OLED and quantum-dot LED technologies

A recently-published Apple patent filing indicates that Apple may be working on a “hybrid” display that mixes both OLED and quantum-dot LEDs. The U.S. filing, no. 20,190,131,356, describes a “tandem hybrid pixel” with an OLED subpixel and a quantum dot subpixel, plus various needed transport layers and cathodes.  Quantum Dots are photoluminescence particles embedded in […]

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Apple releases macOS 10.14.1 Supplemental Update for 2018 MacBook Air notebooks

If you just snagged a 2018 MacBook Air, this could come in handy. Apple on Thursday released its macOS 10.14.1 Mojave Supplemental Update for the 2018 MacBook Air. The code makes unspecified “stability and reliability” fixes for Airs running macOS 10.14.1. It’s available as a direct download from Apple’s website, or throught the Updates tab […]

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2018 MacBook Air battery now user-replaceable

If you’ve suffered through the Parade of Glue and Adhesive that was involved in replacing the batteries on Apple’s MacBook Air notebooks since 2012, you’re going to love this. Apple’s new MacBook Air battery can be replaced by the owner in the notebook. In all other MacBook and MacBook Pro models with a Retina display […]

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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. […]