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The M5 Ultra Fuses Four Chips Into One, a First for Apple Silicon
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop,
Every Ultra chip Apple has shipped so far has been two Max chips bolted together with an interconnect called UltraFusion. The M5 Ultra is four. That's the whole story, and it's a bigger deal than the core counts make it sound.
Apple announced M5 Ultra today inside the new Mac Studio, where it scales to a 36-core CPU, an 80-core GPU, and 512GB of unified memory. Apple calls it the most powerful chip it has ever made. It's also the most structurally unusual.
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The New M5 Ultra Mac Studio is an AI Beast That Holds Up to 512GB of Memory
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple announced the machine this morning alongside the new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini. Pre-orders are open now, shipping starts September 22, and the 512GB configuration doesn't arrive until late October. The M5 Max model starts at $2,499.
Apple’s M6 Is Its First 2nm Chip. Here’s What That Actually Changes
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop,
Apple's new M6 chip is here, and you may be wondering what's different this time around. It's a 2 nanometer chip, but process nodes are some of the most over-hyped numbers in tech. "2 nanometer" doesn't describe the size of anything you could measure on the die. Instead, it's a label for a manufacturing generation, and it has been marketing shorthand for years. So when Apple says M6 is its first 2nm chip, the useful question is "What did Apple do with that new headroom?"
Based on what Apple published today: two more CPU cores, two more GPU cores, a second Neural Engine, and more memory bandwidth, all packed into a smaller die. M6 debuts in the new Mac mini, which starts at $899 and ships September 22.
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Apple’s New M6 Mac mini Wants to Be the AI Box That Lives on Your Desk
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Artificial Intelligence,
The headline is the chip. M6 is Apple's first 2nm processor, and it landed in the cheapest desktop Apple sells. Pre-orders opened today, machines arrive September 22, and the M6 model starts at $899 with 16GB of unified memory. There's also an M5 Pro version at $1,699 for people who need real render horsepower in a box the size of a sandwich.
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Maingear’s New Gaming PCs Hide Every Cable, and the Top One Costs $6,499
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, PC / Laptop,
You know the moment. You've finished a build, the glass side panel is on, and instead of admiring the graphics card you're staring at a nest of black cables you spent forty minutes trying to route behind a motherboard tray that was never going to fit them.
Maingear's new Zero lineup is built so that never happens, and you don't have to do the building. These are pre-built desktops that use the company's rear-connection design to move every power and data cable to the back of the board, out of sight. Look through the glass and you see the CPU socket, the memory, the water cooling tubes, the PCIe slots. Nothing else.
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Apple Is Quietly Rebuilding Every Mac It Sells
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
Look at Apple's Mac lineup today, then picture the whole thing swapped out. That is roughly the plan. According to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is getting ready to refresh every single Mac it sells over the next two years, from the cheapest MacBook Air to the Mac Studio sitting under a video editor's desk. Not a spec bump here and a new color there. The entire family, top to bottom.
It is worth saying up front that this is a report, not an Apple announcement, so treat the dates and details as the best current read on Apple's plans rather than a promise. But the shape of it is easy to understand, and it tells you something about where Apple thinks the Mac is going. The short version: people are buying Macs again, a lot of them to run demanding AI work locally, and Apple wants a lineup that can meet that moment. Mac sales are reportedly on track to climb for a third year running.
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The Next Mac Mini Might Put a Newer Chip in the Cheaper Model
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
Picture buying the entry-level Mac mini and walking out with a newer chip than the person next to you who paid more. That is the small, strange promise tucked inside the latest report about Apple's tiniest desktop.
According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is testing a next-generation Mac mini that pairs two chips from two different families: a fresh M6 in the base model, and last year's M5 Pro in the step-up configuration. None of this is official. There's no price, no spec sheet, and no release date attached yet. But if it holds up, it means the cheaper mini would run Apple's newest silicon while the pricier one leans on a chip that's technically a generation behind.
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Apple’s Cheapest MacBook Is Getting Two Upgrades, and One of Them Actually Matters
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
The cheapest Mac Apple makes is also the one worth watching. The MacBook Neo showed up earlier this year as a $599 laptop, an almost suspiciously low price for something with an Apple logo on the lid, and it quietly became the machine people started recommending to friends who just need a computer that works. Now, only a few months in, the rumor mill is already sketching out the sequel. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, it comes down to two upgrades.
Those two: a new A19 Pro chip in place of the current A18 Pro, and 12GB of RAM instead of 8GB. Gurman also expects a fresh set of colors to join the current Silver, Blush, Citrus, and Indigo. None of this is official yet, so hold it loosely. But it fits the pattern of a company that likes to firm up a good idea once it knows the idea actually works.
Apple’s Mac Pro Was Supposed to Bury the Mac Studio. It Blinked Instead.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
Here is the version of the Mac Pro you never got to buy: a tower with a chip so big it would have carried twice the processing cores and twice the graphics cores of the beefiest Ultra chip Apple sells. A machine built to make the Mac Studio look like a warm-up act. Apple designed it, plotted its launch, and then quietly walked away.
That is the picture painted by a new report from Bloomberg's Power On, and it lands with a little extra sting because Apple killed off the Mac Pro entirely back in March. So this is not a story about what is coming. It is a story about the monster desktop that got as far as the drawing board and then lost an argument to a smaller, cheaper box sitting right next to it.
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Why the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Is the Ultimate Field Laptop for Creators
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, PC / Laptop, Product Reviews,
Imagine a 13-inch laptop that costs $3,000 and doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card. Sounds like a tough sell. But somehow, this machine manages to trade blows with an RTX 4060.
This is the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition. It goes way deeper than a simple brand collaboration. ASUS actually baked real software and hardware integration into this device. It is easily one of the most purpose-built machines for creators on the market today. Let's dive into what makes it special.
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