B&H is running some great holiday deals on the latest Apple products translating into savings of about $500. The hefty discounts are primarily on Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air lineup, with some meager discount available on the 9.7-inch iPad as well. Check out the best deals from B&H’s […]
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Image credit – iFixit Apple’s newer Mac computers come with the company’s T2 security enclave. This is a special chip that securely stores sensitive information about the user, like in the case of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pros, it is where your fingerprint information is stored and protected […]
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Sometimes devices break down and encounter issues due to faulty components. Unfortunately for iPhone X and 13-inch non-Touch Bar MacBook Pros, it seems that there are enough issues that have been reported for Apple to officially announce and launch a free repair program for affected customers. In the case of […]
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Black Friday 2018 is exactly two weeks away from now. To celebrate the occasion, most retailers including Amazon and Best Buy have already made some of their deals live before the event itself. Amazon was the first to make its some of its Black Friday deals live and Best Buy […]
Read MoreApple is holding a launch event on Tuesday, October 30, and the image shown on invitations is above. Here’s what the smart guesses are on what they’re going to announce. Apple will livestream the event here, start time scheduled for 10 AM Eastern time. Among the offerings said to be in store: new iPads, a […]
Read MoreAccording to a pair of reports out today, it won’t matter how good you are with computers: you won’t be able to conduct certain repairs on the iMac Pro or the MacBook Pros that Apple launched in July. If documents reported by MacRumors and Motherboard are correct, Apple requires a software diagnostic to be run on machines after doing a […]
Read MoreIt is generally thought that a computer fresh from the factory is pretty much as secure as it gets, before software is installed and it is connected to the internet. However that might not be the case with Apple’s Mac computer as security researchers have discovered a bug that could allow Macs to be hacked […]
Read MoreI upgraded to a 13” 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina display after a two-week working vacation in Costa Rica. The extreme heat laid on me during my time there was enough to fry the 11” MacBook Air that I’d brought with me in a way that made it all but impossible to use. There was […]
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If you’re in the market for a laptop computer for creative work, in some ways you’ve got more options than you did 5 or 10 years ago. That may sound hard to believe as some laptops become as sealed and non-upgradeable as smartphones, but it’s true in the sense of the overall creative workflow. Buying […]
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Some of you guys might have heard how in southwestern Japan, that area of the country has been hit with devastating floods where more than 8 million people were advised to evacuate, and where it has been reported tha 225 people have died as a result of the flood and an additional 13 reported missing. […]
Read MoreApple debuted its custom T1 security chip with the 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. The chip ran a custom and toned down version of iOS and looked after the operations of the Touch Bar. With the iMac Pro last year, the company debuted the successor to that chip, T2. This time around, the chip […]
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One of the new hardware features that Apple introduced to its Mac computers back in 2017 was the T2 chip in the iMac Pro. Apple then brought the chip over to the 2018 MacBook Pro laptops which seemed like a good thing, but now a report from Digital Trends is suggesting that it might be […]
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Apple’s 2018 refresh of the MacBook Pro finally introduced some hardware upgrades that a professional might benefit from. Or at least that’s what it looked like on paper, but a hands-on review by YouTuber Dave Lee discovered a CPU throttling issue that seemed to be due to the design of the laptop itself. Advertising It […]
Read MoreOn Tuesday, Apple released a software update specifically for the mid-2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. The supplemental update is designed to address an issue with performance and thermal throttling, with Apple trying to fix an issue that has caused some of the latest MacBook Pro models to suffer from severe throttling issues due to […]
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Apple recently refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup and the new models include a configuration with the Intel Core i9 processor. A YouTube video posted by tech reviewer Dave Lee last week suggested that perhaps the new MacBook Pro was facing throttling issues due to the design of the laptop. It was automatically throttling the speeds […]
Read MoreApple has released a bug fix software update for macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 aimed specifically at Mac users who own the latest 2018 model year MacBook Pro with the Touch Bar. The update is labeled as “macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update for MacBook Pro (2018)” and apparently aims to resolve a problem where the […]
Read MoreFor the last week, Apple’s most hardcore critics and fans have been arguing over whether the new MacBook Pros have a thermal throttling issue, and if so, whether it’s a big deal or not. Apple has been silent, but as per Apple tradition, the company has finally spoken out now that it has a fix. […]
Read MoreApple has admitted it made a mistake with the new MacBook Pro, and will push out an update today that addresses the controversial thermal throttling of its latest laptops. The new Core i7 and Core i9 MacBook Pro 15-inch options arrived to a warm reception when Apple announced them earlier this month, but that warmth […]
Read MoreApple released new versions of the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar earlier this month, but while the devices included plenty of new features and oft-requested spec bumps, it also came with some massive thermal throttling. That led to plenty of coverage regarding the issue, which saw the max-specced MacBook Pro running into […]
Read MoreImage: Dustin DRankoski/Mashable By Pete Pachal2018-07-24 17:00:08 UTC So it was a bug after all. Almost as soon Apple debuted its new MacBook Pro for 2018 — which greatly boosts performance over last year’s model and marks the first time an Intel Core i9 machine has been in the lineup — it was plagued with a […]
Read MoreImage: Dustin Drankoski/Mashable By Jake Krol2018-07-24 12:22:38 UTC If you buy one of the new 2018 MacBook Pros, you’d best back up your data, since recovery will be much harder than it was before if your logic board fails. It turns out Apple removed a data-recovery port from the logic board in the latest iteration […]
Read MoreThis site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Getting Apple devices repaired can be frustrating even if you’ve got an Apple Store nearby. The company does everything it can to make hardware that’s sleek and powerful, but it pays little or no attention to repairability. For example, if […]
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