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iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 20:17

Enlarge (credit: Apple/Andrew Cunningham)

Last year, Apple introduced the ability to set multiple timers at once in the Clock app on its various platforms.

“We truly live in an age of wonders,” deadpanned Apple’s Craig Federighi in the company’s official presentation , tacitly acknowledging the gap between the apparent simplicity of the feature and the amount of time that Apple took to implement it.

The next version of iPadOS may contain another of these "age of wonders" features, an apparently simple thing that Apple has chosen never to do for reasons that the company can't or won't explain. According to MacRumors , iPadOS 18 may finally be the update that brings a version of Apple's first-party Calculator app to the iPad.

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Apple reportedly plans M4 Mac mini for late 2024 or early 2025, skipping the M3

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 3 days ago - 16:54

Enlarge / The M2 Pro Mac mini. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman thinks that Apple's M4 chips for Macs are coming sooner rather than later—possibly as early as "late this year," per a report from earlier this month . Now Gurman says Apple could completely skip the M3 generation for some Macs, most notably the Mac mini .

To be clear, Gurman doesn't have specific insider information confirming that Apple is planning to skip the M3 mini. But based on Apple's alleged late-2024-into-early-2025 timeline for the M4 mini, he believes that it's "probably safe to say" that there's not enough space on the calendar for an M3 mini to be released between now and then.

This wouldn't be the first time an Apple Silicon Mac had skipped a chip generation—the 24-inch iMac was never updated with the M2, instead jumping directly from the M1 to the M3. The Mac Pro also skipped the M1 series, leapfrogging from Intel chips to the M2.

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This app tries to do what Apple couldn’t: Multiple Mac monitors on Vision Pro

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 7 days ago - 12:00

Two virtual Mac displays floating in the air

Enlarge / Here it is: two virtual Mac displays in Vision Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon)

Apple's Vision Pro headset holds the promise to be a powerful extension of your Mac workflow, but the Mac integration it shipped with is just neat, not a big step forward. Now, an app by established independent developers Jordi Bruin, Mathijs Kadijk, and Tom Lokhorst aims to fix that.

Called Splitscreen, it enables you to utilize two virtual displays at once while working with your Mac and wearing Vision Pro. By contrast, Apple's default implementation only supports mirroring a single Mac display to a resizable virtual one.

Further, the developers are working on achieving what I said I'd like to see from Apple when I wrote up my first impressions of the headset: the ability to move individual Mac windows around your space freely like visionOS apps when your Mac and Vision Pro are connected to one another.

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pubsub.blastersklan.com / slashdot · Thursday, 11 April - 17:28 edit · 1 minute

Apple, aiming to boost sluggish computer sales, is preparing to overhaul its entire Mac line with a new family of in-house processors designed to highlight AI. Bloomberg News: The company, which released its first Macs with M3 chips five months ago, is already nearing production of the next generation -- the M4 processor -- according to people with knowledge of the matter. The new chip will come in at least three main varieties, and Apple is looking to update every Mac model with it, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans haven't been announced. The new Macs are underway at a critical time. After peaking in 2022, Mac sales fell 27% in the last fiscal year, which ended in September. In the holiday period, revenue from the computer line was flat. Apple attempted to breathe new life into the Mac business with an M3-focused launch event last October, but those chips didn't bring major performance improvements over the M2 from the prior year. Apple also is playing catch-up in AI, where it's seen as a laggard to Microsoft, Alphabet's Google and other tech peers. The new chips are part of a broader push to weave AI capabilities into all its products. Apple is aiming to release the updated computers beginning late this year and extending into early next year.

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Apple Plans To Overhaul Entire Mac Line With AI-Focused M4 Chips

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Pourquoi le logo de l’app Messages sur iPhone n’est pas bleu ?

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 27 March - 13:17

Depuis 2011, Apple propose aux utilisateurs de ses produits d'utiliser iMessage, une application de messagerie connue pour ses bulles bleues. Pourtant, en 2024, l'icône de l'application Messages est verte.

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« Une importante menace pour les Mac » : ce voleur de mot de passe est à prendre très au sérieux

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Sunday, 17 March - 06:03

Un nouvelle version d'un logiciel malveillant dédié au vol de mot passe a fait son apparition. Les pirates ont amélioré leur outil pour cibler les ordinateurs Mac.

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New iPads may be coming soon, but they won’t change the awkward spot the iPad is in

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 12 March - 19:29 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Apple's $329 9th-gen iPad is over 2 years old and the last model to use Lightning or the old Apple Pencil. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)

After leaving the iPad lineup untouched for the entirety of 2023, Apple is reportedly preparing to overhaul all of its tablets within the next few weeks, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman . We should see major iPad Pro and iPad Air refreshes "around the end of March or in April," says Gurman, along with a special build of iOS 17.4 that adds support for the new hardware.

We'll talk about the specifics of these iPad rumors momentarily, but reading about them got me thinking about what it would take to make me consider an upgrade for either of the iPads currently rolling around my house—a 3rd-generation iPad Air that is currently used mostly for watching Octonauts and assembling Super Mario Lego sets , and a 5th-generation M1 Air that I use mostly for reading and browsing.

At least for me, the answer isn't "new hardware." After a brief stint a few years ago using the iPad as a focused writing device, I've mostly relegated it to tablet-y content consumption, leaving behind the cottage industry of enthusiasts who keep trying to come up with workarounds to make the iPad into a Mac. To replace an iPad at this point, I would either need one of them to break or for Apple to dramatically change what the high-end iPads are capable of.

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Apple refreshes 13- and 15-inch MacBook Airs with faster M3 chip

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 4 March - 14:52 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Apple is refreshing the MacBook Air with M3 chips but leaving everything else about the 2022 redesign intact. (credit: Apple)

Apple has quietly refreshed its MacBook Air lineup , bringing new chips (and in some cases, new prices) to its most popular laptops. New 13- and 15-inch MacBook Airs include Apple's latest-generation M3 chip, while the old M2 MacBook Air now replaces 2020's M1 MacBook Air as Apple's $999 entry-level laptop. The new 13- and 15-inch M3 systems start at $1,099 and $1,299; they can be ordered today and will be released on March 8th.

The new Airs use the same design as the M2 versions. Compared to older M1 and late-Intel-era Airs, they have slightly larger displays with a prominent notch, a non-tapered but still thin-and-light chassis, larger trackpads, modestly refined keyboards, and a MagSafe port for charging.

All of the new Airs use the M3, with no options to upgrade to faster or more capable processors (frustratingly, this means the Air is still restricted to just a single external display). The $1,099 13-inch Air does use a slightly cut-down version of the chip with 8 GPU cores instead of 10, with the 10-core GPU available as a $100 upgrade; all 15-inch models use the fully enabled M3 with the 10-core GPU.

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Apple dévoile un nouveau MacBook Air, avec une puce M3, du Wi-Fi 6E et deux écrans

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Monday, 4 March - 13:39

Quelques mois après l'iMac et les MacBook Pro, au tour du MacBook Air de passer à la nouvelle génération de puces Apple Silicon. Le nouveau MacBook Air M3 sera disponible le 8 mars à partir de 1 299 euros. Le modèle M2 reste au catalogue, à 1 199 euros.