Apple overhauls MacBook Air, MacBook Pro also gets to taste the M2

During its annual World Wide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled its overhauled MacBook Air powered by the newly announced M2 chip. It brings a completely new design, Magsafe charging and exemplary battery life. Meanwhile, the 13-inch MacBook Pro also got to taste the M2 chip. The new MacBook Air comes with a flatter design and looks far sleeker at a thickness of 11mm and weighing 2.7 pounds (1.22kg). The laptop remains fanless and comes with a notched 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display with 500 nits of brightness and 1 billion colors. Plus, the web camera has been updated to...

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Apple's iPadOS 16 arrives with new multitasking experience for M1 iPads

Apple's announced its next-generation operating systems today, and we've already covered what's new in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura. So let's now turn our attention to iPadOS 16, which as you'd expect has a lot of similarities with iOS 16, and gets many of the same features. However, there are also some iPad-specific things in there, and perhaps none more interesting than the new Stage Manager multitasking experience. This works on iPads powered by Apple's M1 chipset only, and it organizes apps and windows automatically. It also lets you create overlapping windows of different sizes in a...

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macOS Ventura gets Stage Manager, option to use iPhone as a webcam

Today at WWDC, Apple unveiled macOS Ventura which will come to its Mac computers in the Fall. In keeping with recent macOS announcements, Ventura is a subtle update that mostly keeps the visual style intact. The biggest new feature is Stage Manager. It's an overhaul of Mission Control, that you enable from the Command Center (and can disable if you choose to). Whereas Mission Control showed all running apps on the screen, Stage Manager keeps your currently-opened app in focus and bunches the other apps by category to the side. You can basically "live" in this view and continue...

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Apple unveils M2 chipset with 18% faster CPU, 35% faster GPU compared to the M1

At its WWDC event today, Apple announced the M2 chipset, the successor to the M1, its first custom designed ARM-based computer chip which was unveiled back in November 2020. The M2 is at the heart of the new MacBook Air and the new 13" MacBook Pro. The new chip is built on a second-generation 5nm process, and compared to the M1, its 8-core CPU delivers 18% better performance. This is due to the performance cores being faster and paired with a larger cache, while the efficiency cores have also been "significantly enhanced for even greater performance gains", Apple says. Compared to...

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Apple iOS 16 is here with a focus on the lock screen

iOS took the stage first during Apple's WWDC keynote and it took more than 40 minutes for Craig Federighi and team to tell us all about the new updates. The biggest by far is the new lock screen. Apple calls it the biggest update ever. Whether you've set a photo, a static wallpaper, or any of the new live wallpapers, you'll be able to customize the way the date and time portion looks. Each element can be deeply customized with different fonts, colors, the shades of those colors, and by adding widgets. You'll be able to customize which widgets show up below the date and time....

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Apple announces watchOS 9 with new watch faces and health features

Apple today previewed its upcoming watchOS 9 update at WWDC. The new update includes improvements to the watch faces, Workout app, sleep stages, a first of its kind AFib History, and medication tracking. watchOS 9 includes four new watch faces. These include Lunar, Playtime, Metropolitan, and Astronomy. watchOS 9 also includes updates to existing watch faces; The Portraits face now highlights the depth effect on photos with cats, dogs, and landscapes, while some of the classic watch faces like Modular, Modular Compact, and X-Large now feature customizable background colors and...

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M2 Mac mini listed on B&H, Apple could ship up to 7M units of upcoming MacBook Air

On the eve of WWDC 2022, US retailer B&H listed a pair of unreleased Mac mini models. The first one is a Mac mini with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage powered by the yet to be official Apple M2 chip while the second is a Mac mini tower with the M1 Pro chip. M2 Mac mini listing The listings for both devices come just ahead of Cupertino’s big software-centric conference which makes it interesting to see why Apple would release new hardware at this time. Mac mini with M1 Pro listing As for the Mac mini tower model, it seems it will be a step above the regular Mac mini which still...

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