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Here's a throwback to last year on May 14th, an article about cost-effective accessories for your MacBook.
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Best $300 I spent in a while! Gots me a 15” base Midnight M2 Air. It was cheap because the keyboard doesn’t work, nothing a Bluetooth one can’t fix! 😁
And now, the specs for the M5 Max chip! We are all caught up on Apple Silicon desktop chips for now, barring any updates and corrections needing to be made to older articles.
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It’s official just this hour! Apple and Intel reached a preliminary agreement for future chip production. This means future Apple Silicon may or may not be produced in part by Intel! But it’s unclear which devices Intel would make these chips for.
New article for the day! Here are the specs for the Apple M5 Pro chip.
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Took longer than expected, but it's up now! Here's a new Value Equation article on the M2 MacBook Air.
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New article this morning!
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New article! All the known chip specs about the Apple M5.
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Now, the Icon view UI can breathe a little more.
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Time and time again, the ports on our devices change – prompting many of us to consider at one point or another whether or not to start buying USB-C accessories. Back when the TouchBar MacBook Pro cam...
First new article in a while! Better late than never, here's all the tech specs about the latest M5 Pro / M5 Max MacBook Pros on our website.
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This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M5 Max chip. Name: M5 Pro Chip Released: March 3rd, 2026 Codename: – Part Number: – Fabrication Process: *TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-P Tran...
There’s the brand-new MacBook Neo, there’s the M1 MacBook Pro, the M1 MacBook Air.. and then there are the M2 MacBook Airs. While they may stand apart in shape, size and even age, what they mostly hav...
While the project started back in February and was attempted to be finished then, it has finally been done in its first iteration. This means mostly every navigation page (including everything on the ...
This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M5 chip. Name: M5 Chip Released: October 15th, 2025 Codename: – Part Number: – Fabrication Process: *TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-P Transisto...
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It seems like I may have stumbled into a solution for getting Photoshop on the M2 Air sooner rather than later. Initially the idea was to get Photoshop CS4 working in a Leopard VM on UTM, downsizing i...
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This page details the full hardware profile of the Apple Silicon M5 Pro chip. Name: M5 Pro Chip Released: March 3rd, 2026 Codename: – Part Number: – Fabrication Process: *TSMC’s 3-Nanometer-P Tran...
The long-awaited M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros have finally arrived, taking Apple Silicon ‘Books to a whole new level. Each takes the already successful aluminum unibody from prior generations, ups t...
Reports have been building about Apple potentially partnering with Intel to produce future chips, and according to The Wall Street Journal, a deal has officially been reached.
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