Amazon leaks redesigned Mac mini with M4 Pro

The new Mac mini will resemble a miniature Mac Studio An Amazon listing for the 24-inch iMac contained a now-removed comparison chart that included Apple's unannounced smaller Mac mini with M4 and M4 Pro. Apple's week of announcements does a great job keeping its new products in the news cycle for longer, but the strategy…

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The truth behind Apple’s most unpopular decisions: It’s not about you

Twelve years ago, my former Macworld colleague Lex Friedman and I were at an Apple-focused conference where we presented a talk called “Apple is Huge Now (And That Sucks For You).” The long and short of it was that the Apple of 2012 was not the same Apple of the 1980s, 1990s, or even the…

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The M4 MacBook Pro gets a great camera at last, Thunderbolt 5, more RAM

Apple on Wednesday completed its trifecta of M4 Mac releases by unveiling the new M4 MacBook Pro. The announcement comes after Apple revealed the newly designed Mac mini on Tuesday and the updated iMac on Monday. While the complete MacBook Pro lineup gets M4 updates across the board, the base M4 model undergoes some drastic…

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Apple just gave the MacBook Air a huge upgrade you probably didn’t notice

These days you can’t move without getting hit over the head with a Mac product announcement. We got a new M4 iMac on Monday, a new Mac mini on Tuesday, and a new MacBook Pro today. Apple wasn’t kidding when it referred to this as an ‘exciting week’. The problem with densely carpeted info-bombs is…

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What’s changed in runtime protection for macOS Sequoia

macOS Gatekeeper is used to validate macOS apps. In previous versions of macOS Gatekeeper, Control-click could be used as a launch override for running downloaded apps. Apple has now changed that. Under earlier versions of macOS, users could override Apple's Gatekeeper security to launch apps in the Finder by Control-clicking on them to launch them.…

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What you need to know about Thunderbolt 5

Updated October 30, 2024: Apple has released its first Macs to support Thunderbolt 5. This article has been updated to reflect this developmet. In September of 2023, Intel announced Thunderbolt 5, a new update to the Thunderbolt specification that doubles the bi-directional bandwidth to 80 Gbps (Thunderbolt 4 supports up to 40 Gbps). A feature…

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