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Initial tests point to 15% faster CPU performance, other changes in 2016 12-inch Retina MacBooks

Apple’s next-gen 12-inch retina MacBook is out the door and the numbers have been run on it. Over at Geekbench, Christina Warren noted that that 1.2 GHz configuration runs around 15 to 18 percent faster CPU performance compared to last year’s equivalent model. The notebook earned a single-core score of 2,894 and a multi-core score […]

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Thunderbolt 3, USB Type-C ports becoming more prevalent on high-end PCs

Thunderbolt 3 and USB Type-C look like they’re making their way from the Mac to high-end PCs. Where Thunderbolt 3 is concerned, the port is suddenly beginning to show up in high-end offerings from just about every major PC OEM, starting with some Lenovo workstation laptops and Dell’s new XPS lineup and continuing in laptops […]

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Apple releases Boot Camp 6 drivers, offers boosted Windows 10 compatibility

If you’re using Boot Camp and just installed Windows 10, you might want to snag this. Apple on Wednesday released its Boot Camp 6 update to add drivers for Windows 10. The update is still propagating and is not yet available for OS X, although it’s been noted the update is available within Windows partitions […]

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Apple introduces 12-inch MacBook, offers improvements to currently available MacBook Pro, MacBook Air models

This may be the MacBook you’ve been waiting for. On Monday at its “Spring Forward” media event, on Monday, Apple revealed a new 12-inch MacBook, a radical revamp that shakes up the winning MBA design by dumping virtually every conventional port—Thunderbolt, the SD card slot, a power connector, everything—in favor of a pair a single […]

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OS X 10.10.2 update to resolve ongoing Thunderbolt vulnerability

If you were looking forward to the next heft Yosemite update, there’s something else to look forward to that will finally secure a vulnerability on the Thunderbolt port. Per AppleInsider and iMore, a Mac hardware vulnerability that has yet to be exploited on a wide scale will reportedly be fixed with Apple’s forthcoming OS X […]