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MacOS Big Sur: Apple’s new M1 chip will make apps run faster and smoother

At a virtual event on Tuesday, Apple unveiled new Macs that run on its new M1 chip for Macs, which will bring major improvements to app performance on its new operating system, MacOS Big Sur.  With MacOS Big Sur running on Macs with the new Apple silicon-based M1 chip, launching apps is nearly instantaneous, Craig Federighi, …

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Apple’s M1 Mac chip levels up video and music apps

With Apple‘s introduction of its new M1 chip, the company is giving a few Mac apps a makeover to take advantage of the new technology. Apple users can expect updated versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor, Logic Pro, Logic Remote, MainStage, GarageBand and iMovie, all coming Friday.  Some notable changes include GarageBand’s new design for MacOS Big Sur, with 1,800 …

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Apple’s MacOS Big Sur updates are crashing and failing for some users

If you’re trying to update your MacOS software to Big Sur, you may have encountered installation delays of hours or even days. People have been reporting problems on Twitter, with Apple now confirming a download issue starting at 10 a.m. PT Thursday.  Servers seem to be very slow, with the update failing completely for some customers. After saying it had …

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MacBook Air and Pro with M1 opens the door to 5G. It can’t come soon enough

Apple on Tuesday spent 45 minutes breathlessly describing the benefits of the custom-designed chip, the M1, powering its newest Macs. Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering, talked up the power-saving benefits, which allow for the longest battery life ever for the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. He also talked up how quickly the computers would boot up and …

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Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro joins the new MacBook Air laptop and Mac Mini desktop as the first Macs to make the move from Intel processors to the company’s own M1 system-on-a-chip. The M1 will give the new 13.3-inch Pro nearly three times the CPU performance than the latest Intel version, Apple said. Its integrated graphics will be five times faster as well. …

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MacBook Air gets Apple M1 chip, longest battery life ever, fanless body, starts at $999

Apple’s MacBook Air has always had an Intel CPU inside since it first rolled out in 2008. That ended Tuesday with Apple’s announcement that the MacBook Air would be one of the first laptops to run on the company’s homegrown system-on-a-chip, the M1. The M1 will give the new 13.3-inch Air more than three times the CPU performance than the …

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Mac Mini with M1 update comes with a $699 entry price

In Apple’s third major product launch event in as many months — it follows the new iPad in September and the iPhone 12 line in October — the company Tuesday revealed much-anticipated laptops based on its homegrown 5nm silicon, the M1 chip, along with a Mac Mini refresh that also incorporates the new internals. And like the laptops, aside from Apple’s claimed …

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Apple Store is down ahead of ‘One More Thing’ Mac event

The Apple Store went offline Tuesday, just hours before the “One More Thing” Mac launch event is set to kick off. This is the third Apple event in three months, following September’s iPad event and October’s iPhone launch. Like the others, this event will be fully online due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Apple is expected to announce its next generation …

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MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini with M1: Everything Apple just announced

During Apple’s third online-only virtual event since September, the tech giant announced three more new products: the MacBook Air, the Mac Mini and the MacBook Pro. Available in stores Nov. 17 with preorders open now, the computers mark a new era in Apple hardware, because they’re all equipped with the company’s new proprietary M1 processor. Developed after Apple’s long partnership …

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MacOS Big Sur: Cool new features and borrowed tricks in the public beta

Now that Apple has released the public beta of MacOS 11 Big Sur — with the iOS 14 and Watch OS 7 public betas already in the wild — anyone with a compatible Mac can try out the new software that offers a fresh coat of paint and new ways of working on MacBooks, iMacs, Mac Minis and Mac Pros.  …

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