3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (489+ words) Apple has released the macOS 27 Golden Gate Release Candidate ahead of its public launch on September 14. Developers and public beta testers can install the RC now and try the version Apple is preparing to release to everyone. The installation process…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (247+ words) A note on the numbers below: retail M6 units aren’t widely available yet, so these are early engineering-sample results pulled from third-party CPU benchmark databases (Geekbench Browser, cpu-monkey, etc). We’ll update this post once updated numbers are available. Before the benchmark…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (497+ words) UTM 5.0.5 beta is now available with a major upgrade for Windows virtualization on Mac. The latest beta adds DirectX 12 support, allowing Windows 11 virtual machines to use DirectX 12 with Feature Level 12_1 graphics support. The UTM team says this makes UTM the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (347+ words) Apple informed developers that Mac App Store applications targeting macOS 13 or later can now abandon Intel support entirely, shifting directly to Apple silicon-only builds. The change allows developers to simplify codebases, reduce download sizes, and optimize performance without maintaining backward…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (267+ words) Apple Edited Mac Studio Press Release to Update SSD Architecture – It’s PCIe 5.0, Not 6.0 iThinkDifferent Apple removed a PCIe 6.0 claim from its Mac Studio press release shortly after publishing it, confirming the machine instead uses PCIe 5.0 architecture, the same standard found…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (318+ words) Apple announced new Mac mini and Mac Studio models on August 25, 2026, as Mac sales surged 29% year-over-year in the June quarter to $10.4 billion, outpacing iPhone growth of 22% and marking the fastest expansion of any product segment at the company. Apple’s senior…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (235+ words) The toolkit adds support for multiple Metal 4 features unavailable in earlier versions: frame buffer fetch, function constants, and new intersection function buffers. These additions eliminate API friction points that previously required manual workarounds or compromises in visual fidelity and performance....

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (273+ words) Super cores prioritize maximum single-threaded performance and represent Apple’s most powerful core type. They exist because many real workloads cannot be split across multiple cores effectively so they depend on one core running as fast as possible. The M6 includes four…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (342+ words) Here’s how the two chips stack up feature by feature: Apple announced the M6 chip, alongside the M5 Ultra, yesterday. The M6 is arriving as a standalone chip this time, with no M6 Pro or M6 Max variant. Apple is holding those higher-end options back…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (410+ words) Apple’s new Mac Studio configuration built around the M5 Max chip arrives September 22, and the most useful way to size it up is against the machine it replaces: the M4 Max Mac Studio. The starting price hasn’t moved from $2,499, but the memory…...