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Setting things up for what is certainly to be an exciting next few months in the world of CPUs and SoCs, Apple this morning has announced their next-generation M-series chip, the M4. Introduced just over six months after the M3 and the associated 2023 Apple MacBook family, the M4 is going to start its life on a very different track, launching alongside Apple’s newest iPad Pro tablets. With their newest chip, Apple is promising class-leading performance and power efficiency once again, with a particular focus on machine learning/AI performance. The launch of the M4 comes as Apple’s compute product lines have become a bit bifurcated. On the Mac side of matters, all of the current-generation MacBooks are based on the M3 family of chips. On...
Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air (Core i7 1.8GHz) Review Update
Last week we published our review of the new 2011 MacBook Air. Both the 11 and 13-inch models ship with ultra low-voltage (ULV) dual-core Sandy Bridge CPUs, a first...
64 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/1/2011
The 2011 MacBook Air (11 & 13-inch): Thoroughly Reviewed
I've always liked ultraportables. Back when I was in college I kept buying increasingly more portable notebooks until I eventually ended up with something horribly unusable for actual work...
115 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/28/2011
Apple Updates Cinema Display, It's a Thunderbolt Display Now
Along with today’s MacBook Air and Mac mini updates, Apple has also updated their 27” Cinema Display. The display now goes by a new name: the Apple Thunderbolt Display...
94 by Kristian Vättö on 7/20/2011
The 2011 MacBook Air: Specs and Details
2011 has seen Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors and chipsets creeping slowly into every machine in Apple's lineup - we saw it in the MacBook Pros in February (see...
81 by Andrew Cunningham on 7/20/2011
Back to the Mac: OS X 10.7 Lion Review
Apple hasn't exactly paid a ton of attention to Mac OS X since the iPhone came out. There, I said it. This was obvious even in the lead-up to Leopard...
112 by Andrew Cunningham, Kristian Vättö & Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/20/2011
Promise Pegasus R6 & Mac Thunderbolt Review
One by one the barriers to mobile computing have been falling. In the early days you could move to a notebook but you'd give up a lot of CPU...
94 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/8/2011
Apple Thunderbolt Cable & Promise Pegasus RAID System Available Now
This morning Apple finally announced availability of its first Thunderbolt cable alongside Promise's Pegasus external RAID solution. We've previewed the Pegasus in the past but today we received a...
50 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/28/2011
WWDC 2011: iCloud
We've already talked about Lion and iOS 5, Apple's other WWDC topics, and both look like worthwhile extensions of existing products, but Apple squeezed its most interesting announcement in...
46 by Andrew Cunningham on 6/6/2011
WWDC 2011: iOS 5
After giving us a look at OS X 10.7 Lion in its WWDC keynote today, Apple turned to what is seen as the more important of its OS platforms...
24 by Andrew Cunningham on 6/6/2011
WWDC 2011: OS X 10.7 Lion
Apple kicked of its Worldwide Developers conference this year with a keynote meant to showcase three of its biggest software undertakings at the moment: Mac OS X, iOS, and...
50 by Andrew Cunningham on 6/6/2011
Computex 2011: Some Time with Promise's Thunderbolt Devices
Yesterday Intel told us that Ivy Bridge would feature both USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt on its Ivy Bridge platform (USB 3.0 will be integrated into the chipset, Thunderbolt...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/1/2011
The 27-inch Apple iMac Review (2011)
A couple of weeks ago, a big box showed up at my doorstep. Inside? The new 2011 high-end 27-inch iMac. More or less it's the 2011 MacBook Pro mated...
140 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/27/2011
Apple's iMac: The First Z68 for Sale?
Yesterday Apple introduced its first Sandy Bridge based iMacs. Thanks to @siromega I was pointed at iFixit's teardown of the new 21.5-inch iMac, which pointed out that the new...
37 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/4/2011
The New 2011 iMacs: Specs and Details
Well, it’s happened again – Apple’s online store went down briefly this morning, meaning that the secretive company was stocking its virtual shelves with new product. As expected, when...
106 by Andrew Cunningham on 5/3/2011
Sparrow: An OS X IMAP Client for Gmail Users
If you’re a Mac power user, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Sparrow, a new IMAP client for OS X that has garnered quite a bit of...
22 by Andrew Cunningham on 4/7/2011
Tablets: How Would You Solve the Input Problem?
In our iPad 2 review I mentioned that despite really liking the device, I never really could integrate the original iPad into my daily life in a meaningful way...
247 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/29/2011
The Apple iPad 2 Review
I don't exactly remember when I stopped using the iPad, but it wasn't without me trying to use it. We reviewed the WiFi version on AnandTech last year but...
201 by Brian Klug, Anand Lal Shimpi & Vivek Gowri on 3/19/2011
Apple iPad 2 GPU Performance Explored: PowerVR SGX543MP2 Benchmarked
Earlier this morning we published our first impressions on Apple's iPad 2, including analysis on camera quality and a dive into the architecture behind Apple's A5 SoC. Our SoC...
219 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/12/2011
Apple iPad 2 Preview
The second generation iPad went on sale earlier today, to much fanfare and long, long lines. We're hard at work on our full review of Apple's second generation tablet...
86 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug & Vivek Gowri on 3/12/2011
The MacBook Pro Review (13 & 15-inch): 2011 Brings Sandy Bridge
Last year at the iPad introduction Steve Jobs announced that Apple is a mobile device company. Just last week Steve returned to introduce the iPad 2 and point out...
198 by Anand Lal Shimpi, Brian Klug & Vivek Gowri on 3/10/2011
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