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      Test du MacBook Air M3 : le meilleur ordinateur portable s’adapte aux traces de doigts

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 7 March - 14:00

    Numerama a reçu en avant-première le nouveau MacBook Air de 15 pouces avec une puce M3, dans son coloris « Minuit ». Les performances sont-elles meilleures ? L'aluminium est-il enfin moins salissant ?

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      Apple : un appareil pliant se précise et ce n’est pas l’iPhone

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 7 March - 09:48

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    Apple prévoirait de lancer un MacBook à grand écran pliant d'ici environ trois ans, soit en 2027. La diagonale d'écran serait de 20,3 pouces.
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    Apple has announced the launch of its new MacBook Air laptops powered by the company's latest M3 chip, offering up to 60% faster performance compared to the previous generation (M1-powered MacBook Air). The new 13-inch and 15-inch models feature a thin and light design, up to 18 hours of battery life, and a Liquid Retina display. The M3 chip, built using 3-nanometer technology, boasts an 8-core CPU, up to a 10-core GPU, and supports up to 24GB of unified memory. The laptops also offer enhanced AI capabilities, with a faster 16-core Neural Engine and accelerators in the CPU and GPU for improved on-device machine learning performance. This enables features such as real-time speech-to-text, translation, and visual understanding. The 13-inch MacBook Air with M3 starts at $1,099, while the 15-inch model starts at $1,299. Both models are available for order starting Monday and will begin arriving to customers and be available in stores on Friday, March 8. Apple also reduced the starting price of the 13-inch MacBook Air with M2 chip to $999.

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      Le “Spring Event” d’Apple approche, avec des iPad et des Mac inédits ?

      news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 15 February - 10:57

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    Apple devrait tenir une conférence de présentation de nouveaux produits dans le courant du mois de mars.
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      MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 7 February - 23:14 · 1 minute

    A stack of broken Chromebook laptops

    Enlarge / A stack of broken Chromebook laptops at Cell Mechanic Inc. electronics repair shop in Westbury, New York, U.S., on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (credit: Getty )

    Chromebooks and MacBooks are among the least repairable laptops around, according to an analysis that consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) shared this week. Apple and Google have long been criticized for selling devices that are deemed harder to repair than others. Worse, PIRG believes that the two companies are failing to make laptops easier to take apart and fix.

    The "Failing the Fix (2024)" report released this week [ PDF ] is largely based on the repairability index scores required of laptops and some other electronics sold in France. However, the PIRG’s report weighs disassembly scores more than the other categories in France's index, like the availability and affordability of spare parts, “because we think this better reflects what consumers think a repairability score indicates and because the other categories can be country specific,” the report says.

    PIRG's scores, like France’s repair index, also factor in the availability of repair documents and product-specific criteria (the PIRG’s report also looks at phones). For laptops, that criteria includes providing updates and the ability to reset software and firmware.

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      Le Mac a 40 ans : on a classé les 10 plus beaux ordinateurs Apple

      news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 24 January - 07:01

    Le 24 janvier 1984, Steve Jobs dévoilait le tout premier Macintosh. Une gamme qui existe toujours quatre décennies plus tard, même si on la connaît sous l'abréviation Mac aujourd'hui. Dans cet article, Numerama rend hommage à 10 designs iconiques qui nous plaisent toujours autant en 2024.

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      You can now access Apple’s official diagnostics tool online for DIY repairs

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 13 December - 23:20

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    Enlarge / The iPhone 15 is part of Apple's self-repair program now. (credit: Samuel Axon)

    Apple today expanded the Self Service Repair program it launched in April to include access to Apple's diagnostics tool online and the iPhone 15 series and M2 Macs.

    The online tool, Apple said in today's announcement, provides "the same ability as Apple Authorized Service Providers and Independent Repair Providers to test devices for optimal part functionality and performance, as well as identify which parts may need repair." The troubleshooting tool is only available in the US and will hit Europe in 2024, according to Apple.

    Upon visiting the tool's website, you'll be prompted to put your device in diagnostic mode before entering the device's serial number. Then, you'll have access to a diagnostic suite, including things like a mobile resource inspector for checking software and validating components' presence, testing for audio output and "display pixel anomalies," and tests for cameras and Face ID.

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      MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 29 November - 18:46

    MacBook Air with AirJet Mini

    Enlarge / The active cooling chips are labeled and located in the upper-left corner near a custom heatsink in the 15-inch MacBook Air. (credit: Frore Systems )

    What if laptops could get fan-level cooling without moving parts? We could get thinner laptops, for one. We could also potentially squeeze more performance out of today's already impressively thin designs.

    That's what San Jose, California startup Frore Systems is trying to convince laptop makers of as it looks for the first OEM to adopt what it describes as the first solid-state active cooling chip.

    Most recently, the company equipped the M2 15-inch MacBook Air with three of its chips, dubbed AirJet Minis. Media witnesses to a recent demonstration reported that the chips helped bring MacBook Pro-comparable performance to sustained heavy workloads on the MacBook Air.

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